aama

Great that they've acknowledged it, but in the year 2017 we shouldn't have this kind of tech issue for almost a week

WilcoRoger

What should I say? Bravo, AY IT did it again!

wkndtraveler

So did anyone manage to get there? I also received the invitation by email, applied but never heard of Finnair after that.

OH-LGG

Yes, I was there. And after me one of us FT'rs walked in.

wkndtraveler

How was it?

lkrt

You just have to click return and then one way again so it updates... Intuitive, isn't it.

WilcoRoger

I figured that out, in the end. "If you want to book a one-way flight, click return flight first" - how's that for user experience?

ffay005

And another one after me. Felt like a déjà vu of AY4511

The beta version is available at beta.finnair.com and you can actually already use it to book tickets. Haven't made any bookings yet, though, only played around with it.

Purjelentaja

There is also feedback button in the beta to give direct feedback to the software development team. I think it would be beneficial if everyone trying it gave feedback and development ideas to them regardless if one was attending those sessions ot not. Got quite a positive feeling of that session, as it felt like they really are trying to make good and working site out of it. Really hope they succeed!

OH-LGG

It was nice 1hr discussion about what I use and what I need from AY's booking site. Mostly it was about multi-city details and problems.

And now I know couple of things more rules behind building the booking engine and logic inside.

Aviating

Any useful hints you can share?

Steve_Hun

Finally an actual improvement (by bringing BACK a feature that was there in the past)!

Have just checked my points balance and lo and behold, flights are posted again with flight numbers, marketing carrier and booking class / ticket type!

intuition

They must have done more things behind the scene, as my "validation failed" flights suddenly earned points, only a few hours after retry of validation.

intuition

Found a new bug

When changing the date of your flight from MMB, and the outbound is already flown, you naturally can only chose the return when searching for available flights. This works fine, as there are one date picker for outbound (disabled) and one date picker for home-bound.
You must search one specific date at the time and if that turns up too expensive, you can normally select to "Change dates" in the result page and redo the search (without re-entering everything)
However, this date-picker is combined and sets a date for the outbound (already flown) and then the site crashes.
So for every re-try of date one has to go back one step and confirm to only search for homebound.


The winning trick is to search for a date that has NO availability, because then and only then does the site display the week-matrix showing what dates in a week has seats.

intuition

Oh, found another one!!
If you have an upgraded ticket, and select a date from the week-matrix, it will allow you to change your ticket into a real J ticket! (from the normal one-date search you'll only get the different econ ticket types)