Originally Posted by
Carotthat
So, I cancel my award flights -> 50 Euro per Booking Code or 50 Euro per Ticket and the taxes/fees are gone forever?
Are there the special corona rules jumping in eg change as often you want till feb 2022?
No. If you cancel your award there is a 50 euro penalty. If your paid taxes were higher than the 50 euro penalty you'll get back the difference (and the points paid). My experience is when you cancel an award flight for which you paid less than 50 euros in taxes, they won't give you back any taxes but also won't charge you any penalty and instead just give you back the points you paid in full.
The points from unused flight awards (flights of Finnair and Finnair Plus partners) are returned to the member’s account providing that the journey was cancelled before the ticket was redeemed and the Finnair Plus Service Center was notified of the cancellation at the latest by the weekday preceding the journey. If the journey is cancelled after the ticket has been redeemed, but before the beginning of the journey, the points are returned to the member’s account in exchange for the unused ticket. The member is charged a cancellation fee of €50 per ticket or the equivalent sum in another currency. The residual part, i.e. taxes and passenger fees, is returned. If a change is made to the journey after the ticket has already been issued, the member is charged a fee of €50 per ticket or the equivalent sum in another currency as well as the taxes and passenger fees incurred due to the change. With Classic awards, it’s possible to make changes to the return flight for a change fee of €50 per passenger. Changes must be made at least one day before the original return flight and re-routing is not permitted. Changes are only possible to award flights operated by Finnair. If the member does not cancel the flight (no-show), points will not be returned. A Finnair flight award ticket is valid only on the airline for which it has been issued.