Finnair newbie questions thread (flame-free)
 

In this thread all Finnair and Finnair Plus questions are welcomed. This thread is flame-free so if you can't find an existing thread for something please ask here.

Is this the thread to ask econometric and businetic questions?

Any type of serious questions, the höpö-höpö thread is for all non-serious discussion.

Only if you're based in BNE. Otherwise let's keep this serious.

What would stop a person from using someone else's FF number? My non-FF friend just flew HEL-RVN on AY and got upgraded to J. I was baffled when she told me that she used her dads FF number on the booking.. Just wow! And how did that even work?

J on HEL-RVN? Is this Your friend a real person? :D And she used her dad's FF number? I'd say BS!

I might have got trolled there. So there's no J service to RVN? I've never flew a single domestic flight in Finland myself.. :D Thank god there's this new topic.. I guess the "business class" sign fooled someone here, but I do trust her when saying she keyed in his father's FF number. Wonder what are the consequences of trying..

OLCI should fail because the customer and traveller names do not match.

Wouldn't it be handy for newbies to have this thread sticky? Who should be asked to stick it?

If you book for someone else with your points, your FFP will show up in the booking - but no further advantage, afaik.

A few years back, when MA was still flying and my sister hasn't moved to HEL yet, she was coming to visit me and we put my FF# to her booking. The flight was marketed by AY, but operated by MA. Not only I got the points after her flights, but the BUD-HEL leg was credited as a J flight :D

So at least ~7-8 years ago, the system was not sophisticated enough to check if the ff# really "belonged" to the traveller ;)

I once tried to make a booking at AY.com and it didn't go through because one digit of my then-AA-FF# number was wrong. So the system detected that and I believe it was actually able to tell me that the name and FF# didn't match.

And I know of a father and son who have the same first (and last) name. They have a joint FF# account :D Need to make sure not to fly on the same day, though...

Could be perfectly legit - haven't YOU flown two flights on the same day?

Of course being in the air at the same time might raise some eyebrows ;)

MA and its paper booklet FFP "card" with hand written credits - those were the days :D

The classic glitch was to have one FFP in MA checkin, then change it at the gate. MA credited both accounts...