Originally Posted by
Flythe96flag
Since Finnair runs a relatively small operation, they are quite good at monitoring passenger connections and often make sure to hold departing flights if they deem a flight with connecting passengers to be arriving within an operationally acceptable time window.
As such, I would say the risk of missing your connection is low.
If you were to miss the connecting flight, it would likely be because the arriving flight is delayed beyond a certain point, where the airline decides that all passengers on that flight are offloaded from the connecting flight, not because you personally are late to get to the gate. (Within reason, of course)
Thank you, this definitly helps. AA'S Site (it's an award through OWE partner AA) indicated there's a terminal change at HEL, which made me more nervous also.
If all goes well, I've already got great flights the week before, spending time in Helsinki and Tallin before flying to Tromso. But things are coming up as the trip gets closer and I may need to shorten from two weeks to one week. The best I could find with AA awards around the potential new departure date, is this somewhat clunky & involved JFK-FCO-HEL-TOS routing.