miamiflyer8

You could ask if your hotel is willing to store your luggage for you until you're ready to leave and maybe have dinner/do something in Helsinki, then pick up the bags and go to the airport. 3hrs at HEL isn't fun, especially if one only has 3rd party lounge access.

avermat

KTT is tiny airport and generally the check in (off season even the departures hall) won't be open until 2 hours before departure.

ranskis

I seem to remember there were some gold and/or platinum benefits regarding award flight change and/or cancel fees. However I cannot find confirmation on the finnair website and I cannot find again the post where I read that.
Anybody knows if there are exception for this 50 EUR change/cancel fee? I guess flame-free is the right place to ask since I will certainly look stupid after someone answers this

Jainzar

The change fee is waived. But since currently all ticket types can be changed at least 48 hours before without change fee this has barely any impact.

topperdoggle

Hi everyone, so I'm one of the new lot who did the promotion. I was OW Sapphire with AA but letting that expire and will build up with BAEC in the next couple of years. Home airport: TLV, hoping to move to US West Coast next year. Spend a fair bit of time between TLV / LHR / SEA / LAX. Anyway I have a couple of questions to which I think I should know the answers but...

I see that upon reaching Platinum, I now have a Gold Gift card. Is this designed to gift Finnair Gold (OW Sapphire) to anyone I want? If so, how do I activate it? I couldn't find anything on the website. If not, how is it used?

ft101

I thought that might be the case, unfortunate as it is for me. I'll have to decide if a free bag and lounge access on cheap Light tickets is worth it as going forward I think it'll be easier for me to maintain status on AY rather than QR.

intuition

I don't think you have looked very thoroughly then. It is literally right there, the "Finnair platinum benefits" in the section describing membership related perks.

https://www.finnair.com/fi-en/finnai...-plus-platinum


It has also been discussed very recently here on FT in numerous threads, so you can also find it for example here:
Gold Nomination From Plat

mikeecix

Looked through the forum and saw this mentioned a few times over the years but couldn't see a solution.

After buying points in the promo last week and with my account now showing Platinum (after a lot of glitches and multiple messages to Customer Services), I've noticed that entering my Platinum number when doing dummy bookings with AA and BA fail to give me any Emerald benefits (such as free seat assignments)....it's as if my status doesn't exist (not even Sapphire benefits appear). I also have BA Sapphire and dummy bookings using my BA FF number give me the correct benefits.

I'm wondering if there's a problem with my account or there's a lag between Finnair regsitering me as Platinum and the status getting updated accross Oneworld carriers. I already messaged Platinum whatsapp and they said I'm showing Platinum but they didn't really answer the question regarding how my status looks "outside" of Finnair.

Anyone have any feedback before I speak with Customer Services again? Thx in advance.

FFlash

There has been occasional reports about finnair owe not showing up at other ffp programs sometimes and the reason is unclear.

Ivstan14

I can give a personal experience anecdote. I also bought in and had the same experience for about 4 days. Then, on a whim I checked again and now AA recognizes my status. So insofar as my experience is canon, that could give you some hope things will update on their own.

There's some discussion on the boards from a few years back where a supposed member who did consulting work for the big GDS firms had insight that Sabre and Amadeus batch process member info changes several times a month and that it's not dynamic. Assuming that's true, it could explain why AA takes a bit while BA seems to see it immediately.

Venezuela-Miami

Haven't tried my newly minted AY+ Plat anywhere yet so can comment at the moment, but I did read many data points with the initial problems you had for the status to set correctly.

In my case I bought the miles on Dec 24th and everything went smooth, even if I was really hoping for a reported glitch case of outright receiving the 150K tier points (hence plat. status) with the 200K award points (plus the bonus, for a total of 400K), I can't confirm (the person who gave the data point didn't supported with images) but in case that was real, that was a great glitch to have.

Regarding the Platinum Whatsapp, where can I find that number? is in the web page? or in case they gave it to you with your customer service interactions I really appreciate if you can DM it to me.

Wizard_of_OZ

My new AY Gold status took about 3 days to recognize (updated on a Saturday night which I recall seeing a different program also syncs at that time). I showed my AY card at check-in and had the agent note that I had my card with me - still got charged for the bag but was able to get a refund for it several days later. Admirals club was easy and I simply showed my AY card.

H.J.Simpson

Hi all and happy new year
I am about to make a booking this summer on AA ticket stock - operated by AY in business class (I)
I understand that AY charges for pre assigned seats also in Business. I've read somewhere that the price is EUR30 for the middle seats? I am flying HEL-DFW and LAX-HEL.
Is that still the going price?

Thanks
HJ

mikeecix

Datapont from my side - today my Emerald status was recognised on AA.com as it allowed me to select Main Cabin Extra seats for free. From showing as Platinum on Finnair and it being registered on AA.com (and other OW Airlines?) took approx 5 days. Not sure if this was affected by the holiday season though.

Steve_Hun

Business Classic and Business Flex tickets would have free seat selection on AY, while Business Light does not include free seat selection (no idea about the prices though). Not sure if AA has an unbundled J ticket concept or not, but if not, I'd expect that you'll be able to book sets for free (especially if you have OWS or OWE status w/ AA).