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I recently moved from HEL to SIN and I'm in a need for 22 000 tier points (+chancing max. award points) before the end of September to keep my AY Plat for another year. I could certainly fly a return to HEL with Value tickets which would put me close enough - but the pricing with AY is just ridiculous. What ever suitable dates I look at, it's always almost double for SIN-HEL-SIN compared to HEL-SIN-HEL roughly in the same time frame. I do have one Value leg booked SIN-HEL for December which I could move and book HEL-SIN-HEL, but do I have any other cost efficient options to score the ~20k tier points from SIN?

ffay005

How much does it cost to make weekend trips to Australia on QF or BA? What about SIN-HEL-SIN on QR? Or a cheap ticket to ICN and ICN-HEL-ICN on AY?

r2d2

Have you looked at BKK-HEL-BKK? With the overnight flight from BKK you don't have to spend a night there, you can fly SIN-BKK on a late afternoon flight to catch AY 144.

OH-LGG

Value BKK-HEL-BKK is around 60.000 THB.

I would check MH site first.

R2

Check the fares for SIN-HEL-XXX (ARN, OSL, TXL, AMS etc)...you'll probably find it cheaper and you get even more points. Usually these fares allow one free stopover in HEL.

WilcoRoger

Jeez, I just moved away from SIN a week ago - we could have done a mini-DO!

Ex-SIN the OW options are limited - I used my time there to renew *G flying SQ, TG, OZ

MH - cheap, even in J, but SIN-KUL is just a short hop. Look at SIN-KUL-somewhere far.
QF - to down under, but C is rather expensive, but not prohibitively
CX - to BKK and to HKG (and points further)
JL - to Japan, got the points potential, but C is expensive
and the obvous BA or AY to Europe. SIN-SYD on BA also an option.
QR - to DOH and points further. They might be a good option in C, at least ex-DE or ex-SE they had good prices.

If flying Y, be very careful with the booking classes, the cheaper ones are often either 0 or 25% earning on AY.

I'd first look at AY, SIN-HEL-BUD/ARN/PRG/WAW, but I have no experience with their ex-Asia pricing. Or do the same ex-BKK with CX feeding on a separate ticket.

Enjoy SIN, it's a great place for being an expat!

Furry

No luck: "Norra is a subsidiary of Finnair"..

Moff1979

Could anybody tell me the roughly the extra charges ect for a return Business award flight from London to Las Vegas. They currently have the flight listed at 130000 points.

Furry

LHR-LAS-LHR

215 000 points + 577.91 GBP

tapuach

I'll be gold (now silver) by the time I fly finnair in September with myself and five family members on the same itinerary

Do I get extra luggage? Does everyone on my itinerary get extra luggage?

EuroFlash

Has anybody else experienced that selected seats become visible in the app a few days before departure now (nope, I did not pay for them... they have been chosen for me and show up now)? Or is it some kind of Finnair Plus (Silver) perk?
I suddenly saw a seat popping up in my Finnair app for my flight of next Friday. And now also for my next Monday flight (in 6 days!). This never happened to me, and according to CS the seats were put in automatically by Finnair systems....

Jainzar

Yes, even on Light tickets. No.

Jainzar

I remember that around 2 years ago seats were assigned to me as Silver at T-48 which I could also change then free of charge. That feature was removed after some time.

So it seems to be a new feature, but we don't know if it is intended or not.

deleter

Hello everyone, longtime lurker, first-time poster here.

I recently moved from the QR program to AY+ after the whole QR devaluation fiasco. However I had an existing reservation on AA with my QR number in it, BUD-LHR-ORD-DFW-GRU (BUD-LHR was BA operated but sold AA codeshare). Since it is almost impossible to change the FFP number on AA/BA interface these days, I changed my FFP number just before boarding my BUD-LHR flight and received my new boarding passes with an AY+ number on them. However after checking now it looks like BUD-LHR and LHR-ORD were credited to my QR account and ORD-DFW to my AY+ account (DFW-GRU is still pending).

So my question now is who do I contact to rectify this since I would really like to finish my saga with Qatar and is it possible to fix this situation without contacting Qatar at all? My previous 3 encounters with their CR left a really bitter taste and this was before the whole devaluation fiasco...

Jainzar

Highly unlikely that you will get around involving QR. Since you cannot credit a flight to two FFPs they will need to undo the crediting of your flight first before it can be credited to AY+.