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Apr 27, 2019 | 3:38 am

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florens

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Originally Posted by Spinstorm

I need another flight in Europe to get the 40TP each way and I need to fly back and forth from Helsinki for the 80TP each way.

My flight back to Helsinki is tomorrow morning at around 8am and london flight is 35mins after that arrives. So I really don’t have any time to have a delay.

I have a hotel tonight in Oslo. I don’t really care if I go somewhere else in Europe but obviously this is a problem.

The gate staff said they may hold the flight for me.

Whats the procedure? Do I tell the cabin crew? What do I do when I get to HEL?

This isn’t a great situation.

Thanks.

I have experienced it several times that connecting flights from HEL were held for delayed A350 LHR-HEL flight, although not to OSL as I don't assume there are plenty of pax flying LHR-HEL-OSL.

You can always try to extend the deadline to reach Gold by 2 weeks to get Gold or try to ORC (original route claim) if you should get stranded in HEL tonight (not sure if criteria are met though).

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...r-s-guide.html

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