AY co-branded Mastercard for Finns
May 11, 2022, 5:03 am
#542
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: KUO
Programs: HH Diam, AY/AX/KQ/IHG/VISA Plat, SK/Bonvoy/Melia/Strawberry Gold, Radisson Prem, PP Prest
Posts: 2,266
Oct 3, 2022, 2:18 pm
#544
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Helsinki-Vantaa APT, Finland
Programs: AY LUMO
Posts: 6,059
No more new Danske Finnair Plus Visa cards:
https://www.finnairshop.com/en/finna...visa-visa-gold
Applying new cards is suspended from 30.9.2022.
Oct 3, 2022, 3:08 pm
#545
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Seat 1L these days :)
Programs: AF Platinum/AY LUMO/SK EBG/baEC S/HYATT Globalist/MR LTP/A3 *G/HH Dia/IHG plat
Posts: 7,961
Oct 4, 2022, 1:16 am
#546
Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 256
Oct 4, 2022, 4:39 am
#548
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum, TK Elite, BT VIP, AA, BA, SK, DL, NT, WB + hotels
Posts: 8,753
My SEB MC is valid until 2025. I wonder if they'll cut it short. Hope not. I never applied for the Aktia card and wouldn't want any changes.
Sounds like AY wants to charge more for points and the banks don't want to pay?
Sounds like AY wants to charge more for points and the banks don't want to pay?
Oct 4, 2022, 5:12 am
#549
Join Date: May 2013
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Plat (OWE), SK EBG (*A Gold), KQ Plat (STE+), Accor Plat
Posts: 3,157
I can’t imagine the Danske Visa would be a hit among customers? SEB’s numbers are likely to have dropped quite a lot in the past years and I’m not sure that they are really focusing on consumer customers. These changes therefore do not look dramatic at all.
Oct 4, 2022, 6:46 am
#550
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: HEL
Programs: lots of shiny metal cards
Posts: 14,106
I had Danske Visa when they launched it, the 10k points were interesting. Cancelled, once they posted, 1p/€ was really pathetic and the card came with a yearly fee as well. In those days AX & DC were still options.
Oct 5, 2022, 3:27 am
#551
Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 256
Oct 5, 2022, 5:49 am
#552
Moderator, Finnair
Join Date: May 2011
Location: MMX (CPH)
Programs: Eurobonus Diamond, QR Gold, AY+ Platinum, A3*G, Nordic Choice Lifetime Platinum, SJ Prio Black
Posts: 14,176
One thing a Visa-partnership spells is that we will not see a Finnair branded card issued in Sweden. Visa is becoming rare, and I don't think one of the few banks still doing Visa (like Bank Norwegian ) would partner with Finnair.
Well, on second thought, IKEA's bank might. IKEA owns (used to own) 100 000 shares of Finnair, and the well-known marketing position of IKEA (cheap-ish, low quality do-it-yourself) fits the new Finnair just perfectly!
Oct 6, 2022, 12:13 am
#554
Join Date: Jun 2017
Posts: 256
Yeah, Visa in Europe lost the race of credit cards few years back to Mastercard. And with the sale of Visa Europe Ltd, owned by European banks, to Visa Inc, I would say it was the start of a new era beginning. That was 6 years ago already, but buying a company and merging it isn't fast and easy. It now seems that Visa is indeed reallocating their money on branding and commercials. Some analyst claims Visa is trying to get in on C2C (peer to peer payments?) and C2B payments now so might be an indicator that Visa wants to get a better foothold in Europe also.
Nov 30, 2022, 12:47 am
#555
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Seat 1L these days :)
Programs: AF Platinum/AY LUMO/SK EBG/baEC S/HYATT Globalist/MR LTP/A3 *G/HH Dia/IHG plat
Posts: 7,961
Lately I have noticed issues with using mobilepay with the SEB card anyone else having problems? Have they stopped accepting it?