This is no way, AY - things to improve [feedback thread]
Dec 29, 2018, 7:46 pm
#916
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I have a yellow car and on beautiful days love to pull the top down and floor the pedal. In 20 years I've only gotten 2 speeding ticket. This is why I am sure the police offers a yellow-car-free-out-of-jail perk! 
Few weeks ago, I was also criticising AY about this. Someone pointed out that if the neighbor seat is free at OLCI opening time, then it works well status-based. I tried and observed many times and have to say that this has improved from the situation months ago - nowadays if the seat next to me is free when OLCI opens (and mainly if it is just 1 seat), then it remains unoccupied till the very last possible moment. 2 seats are different case as couples will not be forced to split just for someone's comfort. I want to believe AY has really improved in time.
Now I expect a period of bad luck to prove me wrong and change my opinion again
I think you are right and so should stay positive!
There are many parameters in that system and surely they are still tweaking. I think there has been several post about how block stays after OLCI started.
For thos who don't have a seat free next to them at OLCI they need to move to another seat for this to work. That means giving up your exit row.
Few weeks ago, I was also criticising AY about this. Someone pointed out that if the neighbor seat is free at OLCI opening time, then it works well status-based. I tried and observed many times and have to say that this has improved from the situation months ago - nowadays if the seat next to me is free when OLCI opens (and mainly if it is just 1 seat), then it remains unoccupied till the very last possible moment. 2 seats are different case as couples will not be forced to split just for someone's comfort. I want to believe AY has really improved in time.
Now I expect a period of bad luck to prove me wrong and change my opinion again
There are many parameters in that system and surely they are still tweaking. I think there has been several post about how block stays after OLCI started.
For thos who don't have a seat free next to them at OLCI they need to move to another seat for this to work. That means giving up your exit row.
Dec 29, 2018, 11:20 pm
#917
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The difference of the seat block to your example is that you can actually see that the seat next to you is blocked and it's not just a coincidence that it happens to remain empty.
Dec 30, 2018, 5:47 am
#918
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Waited 45 minutes for champagne (first drinks run) recently on LHR-HEL (A350). First world problem I know. Had the whole mini cabin to ourselves though so great flight!
Dec 30, 2018, 6:19 pm
#919
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This is really not Finnairs fault but part of the journey, anyway. Baggage handling in Manchester was so slow (45 min, no rush hour) that I missed all good connections to Liverpool and arrived almost 2 hours later than planned. Flight was on-time. Compensation? Finnairs fault in fact partly because they should know that MAN has baggage problems and did not inform passengers
Dec 30, 2018, 11:01 pm
#920
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Baggage handling in MAN may be slow, but exciting to watch.
Dec 31, 2018, 12:38 am
#921
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Thanks for the response regarding Getjet and earphones during take off and landing. Decided to sent in a feedback to Finnair to know what their rules are if Getjet can have their own rules for AY flights. Let's see how it goes...
Dec 31, 2018, 1:33 am
#922
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A first world problem, properly speaking.
Dec 31, 2018, 1:41 am
#923
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One thing I also noticed, the Finnair cabin crew are wearing GetJet ID badges.
Dec 31, 2018, 4:53 am
#924
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Oh well
Dec 31, 2018, 5:20 am
#925
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Clearly that's not the case. The no headphones policy is communicated during the safety demo. Why would Finnair come up with a different policy for the GetJet operated plane. Finnair puts the cabin crew in the plane to work under the Latvian cockpit crew and their company policies and regulations. Catering comes from Finnair.
Last edited by flymetoHEL; Dec 31, 2018 at 5:29 am
Dec 31, 2018, 7:10 am
#926
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Clearly that's not the case. The no headphones policy is communicated during the safety demo. Why would Finnair come up with a different policy for the GetJet operated plane. Finnair puts the cabin crew in the plane to work under the Latvian cockpit crew and their company policies and regulations. Catering comes from Finnair.
Jan 1, 2019, 3:36 am
#927
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Anyone come across this...from my last long haul flight I got 19.735 points, not the usual 20k with tier bonus. Has something quietly changed or...? The online calculator still shows 16.000 + tier 10/15/25%.
Jan 1, 2019, 5:41 am
#928
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I've only gotten odd miles when flying on other OW carriers. Is your ticket, flight number, etc all showing AY?
Jan 1, 2019, 6:59 am
#929
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Jan 1, 2019, 8:43 am
#930
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If memory serves me right, CDG used to be 1913 points. Take that times 2.5 and you'll get roughly 4785, so you got km-based points instead of zone-based. Try flying to DXB in J and hope for the best! 