Finnair newbie questions thread (flame-free)
#1351
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: SIN
Programs: AY+ Plat, GA Plat, SQ Gold
Posts: 316
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?
#1352
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum, TK Elite, BT VIP, AA, BA, SK, DL, NT, WB + hotels
Posts: 8,734
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?
#1353
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Plat Lumo, SK Gold
Posts: 952
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.
#1354
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Helsinki-Vantaa APT, Finland
Programs: AY LUMO
Posts: 6,055
#1356
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: HEL
Programs: lots of shiny metal cards
Posts: 14,102
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?
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!
#1357
Join Date: Dec 2013
Programs: AY+ Plat, A3*G
Posts: 672
I have award booking with AY in J. When I booked the flights they were operated by Finnair with Airbus planes. Now it's changed to Norra E90. Can I cancel it free of charge as the operating airline has changed (and possibly no free middle seat on E90)?
And by free of charge I mean that they wouldn't deduct the "50€ cancel fee" from taxes.
And by free of charge I mean that they wouldn't deduct the "50€ cancel fee" from taxes.
#1359
Join Date: Dec 2013
Programs: AY+ Plat, A3*G
Posts: 672
#1360
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: BA GGL, Matmid Gold, TAP Air S* Gold, Hertz President's Circle
Posts: 160
Ba gold on finnair
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?
Do I get extra luggage? Does everyone on my itinerary get extra luggage?
#1361
Join Date: Mar 2018
Programs: AY+ Platinum / FlyingBlue Gold
Posts: 834
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....
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....
#1362
Join Date: Jun 2015
Programs: AY+, SK EB
Posts: 2,952
#1363
Join Date: Jun 2015
Programs: AY+, SK EB
Posts: 2,952
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....
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....
So it seems to be a new feature, but we don't know if it is intended or not.
#1364
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: QND, BEG, BUD
Programs: AY Platinum; TK Elite+; MR Titanium; HH Diamond
Posts: 109
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...
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...
#1365
Join Date: Jun 2015
Programs: AY+, SK EB
Posts: 2,952
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...