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”one last hurrah of AY idiots”

Saturday Oct 5th HEL-LHR-HEL AY1331 and AY1338

The era of mileage running is coming to an end! (or is it?) Join your fellow idiots in reminiscing the good old times (and coming up with new ideas) in a lounge-pub-lounge-crawl day in and around Heathrow! There will be cake.

List of idiots:

cistavoda
NoWindowSeat
intuition (?)

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Also, casual inorganized meet-ups below - Post in following format:
DD MMM (time) (handle), (Airport) (terminal and lounge) -

Who & Where

14 May 5-6.45 finnishlad, Suvarnabhumi lounges

14 May 15.45-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

25 May 11-15.30 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

28 May 12-10.00 finnishlad, Schengen, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

4 Jul 11-15.30 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

7 Jul 12-19.00 finnishlad, Schengen, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

10 Jul 5.30-7.00 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

10 Jul 12.20-13.15 finnishlad Platinum Wing

15 Jul 5-6.45 finnishlad, Suvarnabhumi lounges

15 Jul 15.35-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

17 Jul 5.30-7.00 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

17 Jul 12.20-13.15 finnishlad, Platinum Wing

23 Jul 5-6.45 finnishlad, Suvarnabhumi lounges

24 Jul 11-13.30 finnishlad, Platinum Wing

31 Aug 7.30-10.00 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

1 Sept 11-13.15 finnishlad, Platinum Wing

12 Sept 5.00-6.45 finnishlad, Suvarnabhumi lounges

12 Sept 15.45-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

14 Sept 11-15.30 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

15 Sept 13-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

21 Sept 11-15.40 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

24 Sept 12-19.00 finnishlad, Schengen, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

28.Sept 7-10.00 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

1.Oct 12-19.00 finnishlad, Schengen, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

5 Oct 7-9.40 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

6 Oct 11-13.15 finnishlad, Platinum Wing

14 Oct 5.00-6.45 finnishlad, Suvarnabhumi lounges

15 Oct 11-13.30 finnishlad, Platinum Wing

24 Oct 13-15.30 NoWindowSeat, PlatWing

2 Nov 7.00-10.00 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

3 Nov 13.00-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

9 Nov 7.00-10.00 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

10 Nov 13.00-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

16 Nov 7.00-10.00 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

17 Nov 13.00-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

20 Nov 13-15.30 NoWindowSeat, PlatWing

30 Nov 11.00-15.45 finnishlad, Heathrow 3 lounges

1 Dec 13.30-19.00 finnishlad, Platinum Wing, non-Schengen

Helsinki-meetup?

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Jan 24, 2017, 1:54 am

#1006

remymartin

Join Date: Jan 2012

Location: HEL

Programs: SPG LTP, hotels, OWE, STE+, *G, Octopus

Posts: 5,793

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jainzar

For those who want to go to HKG it is pretty sad that I couldn't find this offer for that price... and the one next to it neither.

Did anyone here find availability at these prices?

Jan 24, 2017, 2:51 am

#1007

Steve_Hun

Join Date: Aug 2015

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Programs: Finnair (AY) Platinum, Air France Silver, Tallink Club One Silver :)

Posts: 1,655

Quote:

Originally Posted by remymartin

Did anyone here find availability at these prices?

At least I haven't. Would have bought it in an instant...

Jan 28, 2017, 3:47 pm

#1008

FossilFlyer

Join Date: Dec 2016

Programs: AY Silver

Posts: 240

Anyone with guestable lounge access around on Tuesday 31st Jan, HEL T2 at ~06:45, and free for a meet-up?

Feb 4, 2017, 12:40 pm

#1009

miamiflyer8

Join Date: May 2015

Location: ATL/MCO

Programs: Costco Executive, RaceTrac Sultan of Soda, Chick-fil-A Red

Posts: 5,670

Anyone in the mood of planning the next do?

Feb 7, 2017, 12:14 pm

#1010

cistavoda

Join Date: Sep 2013

Location: HEL

Programs: AY Plat Lumo

Posts: 1,519

Quote:

Originally Posted by miamiflyer8

Anyone in the mood of planning the next do?

I'll arrange everything if it's the PVG drunken karting DO and at least 10 FT'ers agree to join.

Feb 7, 2017, 10:25 pm

#1011

miamiflyer8

Join Date: May 2015

Location: ATL/MCO

Programs: Costco Executive, RaceTrac Sultan of Soda, Chick-fil-A Red

Posts: 5,670

Quote:

Originally Posted by cistavoda

I'll arrange everything if it's the PVG drunken karting DO and at least 10 FT'ers agree to join.

Can't we do HKG as I don't want to get a visa...

Feb 11, 2017, 3:01 pm

#1012

skba1

Join Date: Jan 2014

Programs: EBD, BAEC GGL/CCR, Alitalia AlataPlus, Club Carlson Gold, SPG Plat100, HHD

Posts: 654

Quote:

Originally Posted by miamiflyer8

Can't we do HKG as I don't want to get a visa...

You could of course book an open jaw PVG//HKG and buy a one way (or use Avios). That way you can stay up to 6 days (144h) in Shanghai without a visa.

Feb 13, 2017, 2:50 am

#1013

salzburgflyer

Join Date: May 2012

Posts: 20

17th Feb 10:10-15:20 Guest REQ

Hey,

Is anyone free to guest a AY lounge entrance for me on Fri 17th sometime between 10:10-15:20?
Winter holidays in norway has led me to not be able to use SK & LH statuses and im routed osl-hel-muc

with 5 hr layover ^

Mar 14, 2017, 5:24 pm

#1014

cistavoda

Join Date: Sep 2013

Location: HEL

Programs: AY Plat Lumo

Posts: 1,519

Since nobody's taking responsibility for a smaller DO and too few people wanna do PVG. How about a HEM DO? Lunch at Helsinki-Malmi on a summer day?

Mar 15, 2017, 12:17 am

#1015

miamiflyer8

Join Date: May 2015

Location: ATL/MCO

Programs: Costco Executive, RaceTrac Sultan of Soda, Chick-fil-A Red

Posts: 5,670

Quote:

Originally Posted by cistavoda

Since nobody's taking responsibility for a smaller DO and too few people wanna do PVG. How about a HEM DO? Lunch at Helsinki-Malmi on a summer day?

I could be in.

Mar 15, 2017, 12:48 am

#1016

Purjelentaja

Join Date: Mar 2015

Location: HEL

Programs: AY+ Plat and several other cards

Posts: 645

Quote:

Originally Posted by cistavoda

Since nobody's taking responsibility for a smaller DO and too few people wanna do PVG. How about a HEM DO? Lunch at Helsinki-Malmi on a summer day?

Excellent idea!

Mar 15, 2017, 12:50 am

#1017

miamiflyer8

Join Date: May 2015

Location: ATL/MCO

Programs: Costco Executive, RaceTrac Sultan of Soda, Chick-fil-A Red

Posts: 5,670

Either before Jun 20th or after July 21st would work the best.

Mar 15, 2017, 12:55 am

#1018

CeruleanBlue

Join Date: May 2016

Location: BLL

Programs: AY+ Platinum, SK Gold, HHonors Silver

Posts: 405

I might be in too this time, but I'm checking out at midsummer, for 2 months.

Mar 15, 2017, 1:10 am

#1019

jmmi

Join Date: Jan 2016

Posts: 280

I'm in! What about the air show LGG posted about in the höpöhöpö thread? Lunch at HEM first, then air show in Kaivopuisto? It's on a Friday though so too early a lunch might not work for some people.

Mar 15, 2017, 11:36 am

#1020

Aviating

Join Date: Nov 2015

Programs: AY Platinum Lumo (LTG) OW Emerald, SPG Platinum (LTG), UA Silver

Posts: 380

Quote:

Originally Posted by cistavoda

Since nobody's taking responsibility for a smaller DO and too few people wanna do PVG. How about a HEM DO? Lunch at Helsinki-Malmi on a summer day?

Now with a fresh minted multiple entry CN visa I would be interested in PVG DO.

A few interesting points on CN visa:
* All visas are now 60 EUR for Finnish citizens (last time one year ME was 180 EUR)
* CN visa processing seems to be very consistently 4 working days (compare with FI visa which in CN and IN takes 2 weeks)
* Now it seems to be possible to get the visa the next day using express service for an additional fee of 25 EUR (this was discontinued in 2012, but I have seen multiple people get the visa for next day).