Originally Posted by
Jocke
...... situation, cant avoid Finnair as I live in northen Finland (no directs away much at all). Travel usually as light as possible, even kept gladly so far Ay platinum as saving (option for check in luggage, fast tracks..If real one somewhere, lounge).
Got 2months left to keep myself on this level.. (WARNING: MANY SCAMS IN FEW DAYS BY PPL WHO ARE "SELLING AY PTS!".
No fully sure how can I manage that . Short some 40k points (even upcoming trip to Tokyo will help for flight ammount..but still..so close, so far).
Only Idea for stay inn Platinum is to have those benefits...which obviously could change right away after midnight 2023 /-23
long story short: IF Im not able to keep my level, im technicly done?? (because using cheap tickets & light packing)..
and in case of pts left..well..seem we all know, it will be get like "cup of coffee = 45k whatever, gimme the money price". =no tier & nothing else real benefits left.
Ideas to manage, even solve the problem?
For future Finnair does only makes things more complicated , by shorting more timetables, companys, change in Helsinki (for me and many other who dont live in Hel.)
I hope someone at least get my point and even able to help or find solution.
This "great new thing" is ..deep.
Jocke, same here, they have a monopoly here in Northern Finland. I am even considering driving to Kirkenes if things get too nasty. Because I am really fed up with them. KKN is about the same distance as RVN for me. I was taking a refresher on my PPL this week and the examiner told me exactly the same. So I suppose more people here are considering it.
As you say the schedule, especially in summer is horrible. A normal ticket was minimum 228 euro one way most summer weeks! They even colored the price purple to indicate that it was a deal! I mean for a domestic flight... be a bit reasonable please! This is pure theft for people who might need this connection to go to work, family, school, hospital, ... What I don't understand is that those municipalities don't step in. How do you expect to get tourism, work forces, ...
There is even a facebook page, but I don't use that social media crap, to return rental cars to RVN. So sustainable airline my ...! They force people to drive 300k. The bus service to RVN is also about 53 euro but only interconnects with one flight in the afternoon. To return it is even worst. Contacted them with the suggestion to instead of 4 flights to RVN, assign 1 of them daily to take all airports in the North. They basically ignored it. Slots, it is difficult to get slots they told. Indeed, because we are the Hartsfield of the North, obviously.
Also this summer they suddenly cancelled a lot of flights that were operated by E190s. No alternatives suggested. Just cancelled. You could select a flight 3 days earlier or later, ! for free !, they told (they seem to have silently abandoned this policy for the better now). But there are NO alternatives, because they cancelled them! Again escalation within Finnair. The explanation was that they had to catch up on maintenance.
Their schedule is also rather interesting. They have one morning flight on Thursday, one late evening flight of Friday, an very early morning flight on Saturday & Sunday, and than a late evening flight in Monday. None of the evening flights connected to flights within their network as they arrived too late. And who does it make sense to have a Friday evening flight with about 10 hours in between for the early morning flight. And than no flight on Sunday or Monday morning, when most tourists would wanted to get home or workers to HEL. They commented: this is an interesting finding, but... we don't have any slots. Here we go again: Hartsfield of the North!
I can write books about them, with sequels.
So yes, I completely understand your point of view as I have the same issue. But I will work around them. And if we all do this they might find out in their Excel files that people are have a choose.