Finnair (AY) matching AB and LH elites (sort of)

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Sep 22, 2017, 2:18 pm

#16

geosch

Join Date: Jun 2013

Posts: 286

No email confirmation. Did not have any flights credited to TB lately.

Sep 22, 2017, 9:00 pm

#17

xichang08

Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: South Carolina

Programs: A3 *G, Hilton Diamond, Accor Silver

Posts: 218

Did not receive an email confirmation. I did have a couple of AB flights.

Sep 23, 2017, 12:42 am

#18

GUWonder

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Join Date: Jul 2001

Location: Watchlisted by the prejudiced, en route to purgatory

Programs: Just Say No to Fleecing and Blacklisting

Posts: 102,095

Quote:

Originally Posted by kauppias

Finnair does MANY things well and some things great BUT communication is NOT one of those

Not sure what AY does that is great, except that it's great that AB elites have another exit path from AB courtesy of AY too.

Sep 23, 2017, 4:02 am

#19

geosch

Join Date: Jun 2013

Posts: 286

FP confirmation email did arrive now (in Finnish - I guess I'll need to change the settings).

Sep 23, 2017, 5:07 am

#20

xichang08

Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: South Carolina

Programs: A3 *G, Hilton Diamond, Accor Silver

Posts: 218

Quote:

Originally Posted by xichang08

Did not receive an email confirmation. I did have a couple of AB flights.

Confirmation email has arrived!

Sep 29, 2017, 2:00 am

#21

tsolaaa

Join Date: Jan 2015

Location: Berlin

Programs: BA Bronze, AF Silver, IHG Gold, Sixt Plat,

Posts: 63

Quote:

Originally Posted by kauppias

Finnair does MANY things well and some things great BUT communication is NOT one of those

Haha I am getting that now.

The promotion seems to have ended now. The German and English sites have been taken down. Even after two emails to them, no upgrade and no reply! Oh well.

Sep 29, 2017, 5:00 am

#22

kauppias

Original Poster

Join Date: Aug 2010

Location: Seat 1L these days :)

Programs: AF Platinum/AY LUMO/SK EBG/baEC S/HYATT Globalist/MR LTP/A3 *G/HH Dia/IHG plat

Posts: 7,957

Quote:

Originally Posted by tsolaaa

Haha I am getting that now.

The promotion seems to have ended now. The German and English sites have been taken down. Even after two emails to them, no upgrade and no reply! Oh well.

Typical of AY

sorry to hear it did not work out... I am surprised they withdrew the offer already. Seems like a win win...

Oct 1, 2017, 5:53 am

#23

William13

Join Date: Nov 2007

Location: Berlin DE

Programs: TopBonus, Miles&More

Posts: 78

Received my Silver status (yawn) and am still waiting for them to process my challenge. My emails were answered indicating that the process is still ongoing. I suspect the Finns didn't expect such an onslaught from the Germans - they never do ;-)

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Thank you for contacting Finnair Plus. You will receive the Finnair
Plus Silver-status within 7-14 days from sending the documents. After
this you can gain Finnair Plus Gold tier with special tier limits:

collect 40 000 tier points or 23 qualifying flights before 31.3.2018.

If you have sent your documents and details a while ago but have not
received a response yet, please send them again to this email:

[email protected].

Wishing you a good weekend.

Kind Regards,

Finnair Plc
Finnair Customer Care

Oct 2, 2017, 6:08 am

#24

WilcoRoger

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: Jan 2008

Location: HEL

Programs: lots of shiny metal cards

Posts: 14,105

Have you already flown 23 legs/40k points yet? Otherwise nothing to process for AY

Oct 3, 2017, 4:53 am

#25

irishguy28

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: Mar 2008

Location: Netherlands

Programs: KL Platinum; A3 Gold

Posts: 28,730

Flying Blue matching too, apparently...

http://travelwithmassi.com/flying-blue-status-match/

Oct 3, 2017, 10:53 am

#26

tsolaaa

Join Date: Jan 2015

Location: Berlin

Programs: BA Bronze, AF Silver, IHG Gold, Sixt Plat,

Posts: 63

Quote:

Originally Posted by kauppias

Typical of AY

sorry to hear it did not work out... I am surprised they withdrew the offer already. Seems like a win win...

So I ended up forwarding my initial request that I sent to [email protected] to [email protected] and [email protected]
and suddenly today my account has been upgraded to Silver.

No confirmation via email though.

Oct 3, 2017, 8:21 pm

#27

weetanuki

Join Date: Jun 2016

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Programs: DL Platinum (ST+), JL JGC (ows), NH SFC (*AG)

Posts: 104

Quote:

Originally Posted by irishguy28

http://travelwithmassi.com/flying-blue-status-match/

I wonder if they’ll match non-German residents, too. Once I get an AF flight booked, I’ll try. It’s not OW but having AF status wouldn’t hurt!

Oct 4, 2017, 12:48 am

#28

SK2751

Join Date: Jan 2012

Location: Koala Lemur

Programs: SK EBD LTG (*G)

Posts: 2,447

Let us know. It is quite interesting. I have to go to France in a few weeks, I can still decide which airline ...

Oct 4, 2017, 5:05 am

#29

weetanuki

Join Date: Jun 2016

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Programs: DL Platinum (ST+), JL JGC (ows), NH SFC (*AG)

Posts: 104

I think I’ll try it next week. I also did a LA and EK status match today using AB platinum, and so far, it looks promising. I’m gonna be pleasantly shocked if I get status with 3+ airlines thanks to failing AB!