And now it's official - there's Lumo and there's Lumo+ :D

Was this on a flight from/to OUL?

OUL seems to have some sort of frequent flyer distortion field going on or something as it's not uncommon to have 10+ plat and 20+ golds per flight, especially on the morning flights from OUL and afternoon flights to OUL.

When dealing with the lower levels I can agree with you that getting status is easier with segments than points. But after we're getting into certain thresholds, it's not simple math anymore. I would argue that 150 segments per year is much more effort than 450k points per year. Is it as much value to company? Maybe, maybe not, but as an effort to one flying, I have hard time seeing how less than one round trip LH J in a month would be more effort. 150 segments is on average 3 flights every week of the year. Each and every week. For short term that's not bad, but whole year, it's a lot. If the segments and points would scale linear and the requirement would be 225 segments, it would be in the borderline of impossible.

I'm guessing, that Finnair has looked at the statistics on how many points or segments top flier in the program fly and adjusted the levels as such. Personally I was a bit surprised when Plat requirement was lowered to 76 segments, but I'm guessing there is just so many more people getting to over the threshold with points rather than segments. And extreme segment runners will always be tiny minority of Plats/Lumos even if they're more represented in this forum. While I would not make Lumo points only, I could see some sort of double requirement like 150k points and 150 segments vs. only 150 segments. But even with that, I'm not sure if that would exclude more than few persons so doing it would be more or less pointless.

And in the end of the day, I think if the qualification requirements don't produce overpopulation on certain tiers, then they're ok. At current time what I'm only seeing is crowding of the lounge, but even that can't be wholly blamed on too many golds/plats. Since last lounge renovation, Finnair's passenger numbers have seen a huge increase and that's also driving up the lounge utlization/crowding in addition to more tier members.

So no one has gotten a Lumo BMW ride just yet?

I guess my first eligible flight will be a Norra ATR arrival in 1,5 weeks. Getting almost excited.

I came in from ARN Saturday in Y, no seatblock - but LF seemed to be 100%(ish)

Well you know, these new Lumo BMW's take you now to the Flamingo spa since the Finnair spa has been closed long time ago. The only thing the driver will ask you is if you want to have a towel-sauna first.

Just kidding.

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Tomorrow, on 6 June, we will start piloting a new car service for Platinum Lumo members at Helsinki Airport. The test will run during this summer. We will offer you transportation from the boarding gate to the aircraft and after arrival from the aircraft to the terminal door by private car. You don’t need to do anything differently, as your driver will be waiting for you when you arrive and will guide you to the premium BMW car. The service is available when the aircraft does not depart from or arrive directly at the gate.

We offer the service for scheduled Finnair and Norra operated flights from Helsinki Airport, but please note that we cannot guarantee it for all flights or when bookings are made less than 24 hours before departure.

We are conducting this test based on your feedback and would love to hear your thoughts and opinions about the service afterwards.

So who will be the first Lumo to try this new service? Looking forward to hearing about the experience.

I am watching you ;) Beware, I will know you and your steps ;) since I have my drone hovering over the BMW at HEL just waiting for the first victim to arrive :D

HK e-channel registration folder already has lumo card picture. Priorities apparently... :)

I'm off to SIN today, but those are usually gate departures - maybe if I ask really nicely, they'd give me a ride around the tramac :)