Multiple award bookings same day
Greetings all. Will be traveling from US to Helsinki this summer on an already booked Finnair flight. We want to go directly from Helsinki to Copenhagen so I’m looking to book HEL-CPH as a Finnair award ticket using Alaska miles. I’d like to make the earlier flight work with a 1:45 layover, but obviously risk missing that flight if the inbound is delayed and then getting hosed since it won’t be a protected itinerary. Has anyone had experience booking two one way award flights to the same destination on the same day as a backup plan (ie book the shorter layover but also the flight that leaves 3 hours later and then cancel the latter if the inbound flight isn’t delayed)? Not sure if Finnair’s system would automatically cancel such an award reservation.