Off to Aus at the start of October, and TA has prepared me an itinerary via HEL, with a large chunk of Finnair... basically Finnair HEL-HKG (and back), with Qantas and Cathay to handle the HKG-MEL and SYD-HKG legs respectively. This actually works well for me as it's out of MAN (10 minutes from my house) rather than LHR... and it also nets me some additional TPs too.

Now, I know Cathay will be excellent, I've heard the Qantas Skybeds are decent enough too, but can't find anything about Finnair, and was wondering if anyone here has flown Finnair business class on the A340 can tell me if it's any good, or to be avoided.

I know there won't be lie-flat seats like BA, but is it acceptable? Recently took KLM back from the US on the MD-11 which probably was the worst international business class I've experienced. If Finnair's like that, I'll be looking for alternatives.

(sorry if this has been asked before, I searched as extensively as I could, but FT's crawling for me at the moment)