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New and cancelled destinations, major schedule and operational changes

Old Feb 26, 2017, 1:22 pm
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Originally Posted by intuition
Yeah, tell me something new
(check post 553)
Perkele.

It's replacing A320 tonight.
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Old Feb 26, 2017, 1:29 pm
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If need to smell that new airplane, hurry up and get tickets to FRA tomorrow AY821.
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Old Feb 26, 2017, 1:36 pm
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Feels good to beat someone who has visual of the runways

Yeah, EQ swap, I figured as much - delayed departure and a flight plan filed late in the game. Operations must have felt like the jackpot when they realised there was a free 32B hanging around in the hangars.


*) Flightstats caught the EQ change to 32B already at 20:54EET. Flightaware caught the tail at 21:58EET, which is when transponder was turned on at gate 26.
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Old Feb 26, 2017, 9:53 pm
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Originally Posted by intuition
Feels good to beat someone who has visual of the runways

Yeah, EQ swap, I figured as much - delayed departure and a flight plan filed late in the game. Operations must have felt like the jackpot when they realised there was a free 32B hanging around in the hangars.


*) Flightstats caught the EQ change to 32B already at 20:54EET. Flightaware caught the tail at 21:58EET, which is when transponder was turned on at gate 26.
Damned, been in UTC +8 timezone for 10 days and immediately when the cat's away the mice will start to play

LZM is apparently operational already now, a good example how the plans and reality will not always meet in airline business.
Another A321 to AY fleet and more to come in very near future.
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Old Feb 27, 2017, 12:19 am
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Haha, it was just a lucky shot from my side! My plane spotting by computer can't ever compete with inside/on-sight info!
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 1:18 am
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I was searching flights for summer, and noticed that AY flies 3 daily flights to HKG some days (AY69, AY61 and AY99). Has this been published somewhere?

ARN-HKG round-trip 4360SEK in value.
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 1:40 am
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Originally Posted by HJP
I was searching flights for summer, and noticed that AY flies 3 daily flights to HKG some days (AY69, AY61 and AY99). Has this been published somewhere?
Interesting! No, as far as I know they haven't announced this yet. AY61 and AY99 operate on the same days within five minutes of each other:

AY61 -2-4-6- 17:30–08:10 (+1)
AY62 --3-5-7 09:10–14:45

AY99 -2-4-6- 17:25–08:10 (+1)
AY100 --3---- 09:50–15:25 and
AY100 ----5-7 11:00–16:35

Can they really turn around an A350 in 60 minutes?
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 1:49 am
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I assume that CAN is canned again then? (har har)

Isn't AY61/AY62 just a ghost of the old flight numbering system, and AY99/AY100 the new flight number with a slightly adjusted schedule? (I can't find AY61/AY62 anywhere, but I have not looked very thoroughly)
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 1:54 am
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I suppose other flights than AY69 are operated with Finnish cabin crew?
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 1:57 am
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Someone decided to make a minor schedule change and changed flight number at the same time?

AY99/100 is not published to GDS. I'd say they are the same, not a new rotation.
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 2:02 am
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Originally Posted by intuition
Someone decided to make a minor schedule change and changed flight number at the same time?

AY99/100 is not published to GDS. I'd say they are the same, not a new rotation.
Accoring to this AY99/100 are the new flight numbers for 69/70, but that was announced before they announced 61/62. So yeah, it seems someone made a little mistake. All these three flights are bookable on finnair.com though.
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 2:04 am
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Originally Posted by jmmi
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Can they really turn around an A350 in 60 minutes?
The transit turn-round time is 30 minutes and the full-service turn-round is 61 minutes. If Finnair and their partners can do it IRL, is a whole different question.
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Old Mar 4, 2017, 3:37 am
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June 18th I have following options for HKG-HEL:
AY70 00.25 - 06.00
AY62 09.10-14.45
AY100 11.00-16.35

I like AY100 schedule for a mass-tourism trip.
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Old Mar 5, 2017, 10:11 am
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Just got an email from AY notifying my flight AY61 HEL-HKG on 3.10 has been cancelled. The schedule for AY61 was dep 17:10 arr 8:10.

The replacement flight in MMB is AY99 dep 17:25 arr 8:10.

Think this confirms the AY99/100 is a replacement for the AY61/62, not an additional service.
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Old Mar 5, 2017, 10:31 am
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Yep, now 61/62 is gone.

But why 61/62 is switched to 99/100 and then from 29OCT17 late evening service from HEL is 99 (now 69) and from 29OCT17 afternoon departure is 101.
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