Finnair Plus - Need advice - collect on AA or new AY account?

I used to a OW veteran, and EXP on AA. This is 4 years back, and I have since dropped to a normal AA nobody. This means no minimum miles.

I have a AY AMS-HEL-TLL R/T booked (HEL-TLL AY op by FC). In AA, I would get roughly 2000 miles which I would eventually put to use as I still have 80k dormant and slowly add more to the AA account.

Now, with the 10'000 extra miles promotion I am thinking to jump on it.

Does AY ever do discounted award promos at 50% off or so? Is a one-way award in Finnland worth anything that somebody might trade with me if ever needed? I figure even a one-way upgrade in Europe is worth more than 2000 AA miles, and I hate to get 126 miles for TLL-HLL R/T, but would look forward to some advice.

Looking at current points offers, they have Bucharest and Warsaw from HEL for 30.000 points instead of regular 40.000. Don't have enough history with them to say whether 50% off would ever happen.

But I would think the offer is actually for 10.000 AY points? Finnair's points are not miles-based, but kilometre-based. So that would translate to only about 6200 miles (still not bad for "free" points, but take that into account when comparing).

As mentioned, they have these "x points off" kind of campaigns for routes that are not performing well. These are usually coupled with reduced upgrade rates as well. But these are usually 10K or maybe 15K points off, very unlikely 50% less points. And I have a hard time believing they would offer these for domestic flights.


Is a one-way award in Finnland worth anything that somebody might trade with me if ever needed? I figure even a one-way upgrade in Europe is worth more than 2000 AA miles, and I hate to get 126 miles for TLL-HLL R/T, but would look forward to some advice.

A one-way domestic award (at 13K points) is normally quite useless (high fuel surcharges which make the fees almost as expensive as discount tickets), but for last minute emergency travel they come in handy - availability is usually not a problem apart from the Lapland flights during the winter skiing season, and last-minute fares are a major rip-off (very often pricing in full Y!). This has saved me tons of money a couple of times. But finding somebody with that need to trade with you sounds like a slim chance to me...

10K points is best spent to a European one way upgrade, I agree with you there.

There are "money+points" deals, where you could also make good use of your 10k.