The Finnair höpö-höpö (nonsense) thread
May 3, 2018, 2:49 pm
#2716
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Last edited by nordic; May 3, 2018 at 3:05 pm
May 3, 2018, 3:54 pm
#2717
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Also the feeling that the airport had less and less space for passengers for every new visit!
May 3, 2018, 8:42 pm
#2718
Join Date: Sep 2005
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May 3, 2018, 10:05 pm
#2719
Join Date: Oct 2008
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May 3, 2018, 10:20 pm
#2720
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However, I'm planning on not even requalifying for Platsku this time. Burning points now, and then I hope I can rise from Gold to Platinum again after a year.
May 3, 2018, 11:36 pm
#2721
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However, my sample dates booked in O and according to the calculator, they earn 50 % and not 25 % as I had presumed. Thus 10 000 for a return. Not that much different from AA 13 252 points.
May 4, 2018, 12:17 am
#2722
Join Date: Sep 2013
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Yea, the availability might not be the same, but quickly checking some dates in Nov-Dec, I can find several dates with 394,54€ pricing from AA. Not much difference in the earnings, like you pointed out, but still worth it to buy from AA imo, if one is not chasing Lumo. Although, if Y+ seat is not available for free selection via AA tickets, then it is another story...
May 4, 2018, 1:06 am
#2723
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After the split-up AY started to date with LH. There were even TKU-HAM flights. Then LH found SK and AY started to flirt with AF and it was announced that all HEL-CDG flights would be operated by AY. But after that AY found BA and AF was pissed and cancelled the planned co-operation. It took a couple of years until AF and AY would be in the same bed.
SK and LH hopped into bed first in 1998 as *A founding members and then got their revenue cartel permit by the EU to Scandic/Nordic signed shortly before/after SR went BK. So the door to AY's bedroom was shut by then.
I think I even remembered that space without anything back in 2002-06? There was a vast open space in front of the pub.
May 4, 2018, 1:47 am
#2726
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Domestic lounge was very basic with tea, coffee, juices and snacks, often very busy in the mornings already back in the day. Being HEL based I was very rarely there in the evenings so don't know how it was then, most likely same thing.
May 4, 2018, 1:52 am
#2728
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May 4, 2018, 1:55 am
#2729
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The domestic lounge had some cheese and ham rolls that I liked, and that they didn't serve in the international lounge. It was a good place to spot Finnish MPs, flying back home after a working week in Helsinki. I once sat opposite Paavo Väyrynen in that domestic lounge.
It was a good place to spot Finnish MPs, flying back home after a working week in Helsinki. I once sat opposite Paavo Väyrynen in that domestic lounge.
May 4, 2018, 1:56 am
#2730
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