New Lumo in da house!
Jan 3, 2019, 5:58 am
#256
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: HEL
Programs: Finnair Plus Platinum, OW emerald
Posts: 65
There's some decent business offers on Finnair pages. I wonder if it would be reasonable to get Lumo with some business flights.
would need some 6 returns in business to get 240k tier points. Then one could change 600k award points to get 200k tier points (loosing 12 one way long haul biz upgrades). That would make it 440k. Few random flights should fill that 10k gap 😅.
I assume when status changes from plat to Lumo you get 4LH + 8SH upgrades even if you used your plat vouchers already. Is this true? Then beginning of new Lumo tracking period the 4LH+8SH would be renewed again (instead of the 2LH+4SH which I would get as plat). So if I am correct I could get 4LH+8SH and 2LH+4SH extra vouchers if I managed to get to Lumo. If this is true, loosing 12LH upgrades by points wouldn't hurt so much if in return got vouchers worth 9LH upgrades.
6 RT biz flights would cost of cource around 8000€ to the places I am interested in travelling. 😆 Yea sounds crazy already haha
would need some 6 returns in business to get 240k tier points. Then one could change 600k award points to get 200k tier points (loosing 12 one way long haul biz upgrades). That would make it 440k. Few random flights should fill that 10k gap 😅.
I assume when status changes from plat to Lumo you get 4LH + 8SH upgrades even if you used your plat vouchers already. Is this true? Then beginning of new Lumo tracking period the 4LH+8SH would be renewed again (instead of the 2LH+4SH which I would get as plat). So if I am correct I could get 4LH+8SH and 2LH+4SH extra vouchers if I managed to get to Lumo. If this is true, loosing 12LH upgrades by points wouldn't hurt so much if in return got vouchers worth 9LH upgrades.
6 RT biz flights would cost of cource around 8000€ to the places I am interested in travelling. 😆 Yea sounds crazy already haha
Jan 3, 2019, 6:15 am
#257
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: TLL
Programs: AY LUMO (500K+), Marriott Abassador, Hertz President Circle, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 214
If you exchnage 600K to 200K, you are not losing 12LH upgrades, as you could still use 4 after that.
And don't forget those Gold Cards, with 1LH voucher each.
And don't forget those Gold Cards, with 1LH voucher each.
Jan 3, 2019, 6:17 am
#258
Join Date: Jul 2017
Programs: AY Plat Lumo, LX SEN, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 464
There's some decent business offers on Finnair pages. I wonder if it would be reasonable to get Lumo with some business flights.
would need some 6 returns in business to get 240k tier points. Then one could change 600k award points to get 200k tier points (loosing 12 one way long haul biz upgrades). That would make it 440k. Few random flights should fill that 10k gap 😅.
I assume when status changes from plat to Lumo you get 4LH + 8SH upgrades even if you used your plat vouchers already. Is this true? Then beginning of new Lumo tracking period the 4LH+8SH would be renewed again (instead of the 2LH+4SH which I would get as plat). So if I am correct I could get 4LH+8SH and 2LH+4SH extra vouchers if I managed to get to Lumo. If this is true, loosing 12LH upgrades by points wouldn't hurt so much if in return got vouchers worth 9LH upgrades.
6 RT biz flights would cost of cource around 8000€ to the places I am interested in travelling. 😆 Yea sounds crazy already haha
would need some 6 returns in business to get 240k tier points. Then one could change 600k award points to get 200k tier points (loosing 12 one way long haul biz upgrades). That would make it 440k. Few random flights should fill that 10k gap 😅.
I assume when status changes from plat to Lumo you get 4LH + 8SH upgrades even if you used your plat vouchers already. Is this true? Then beginning of new Lumo tracking period the 4LH+8SH would be renewed again (instead of the 2LH+4SH which I would get as plat). So if I am correct I could get 4LH+8SH and 2LH+4SH extra vouchers if I managed to get to Lumo. If this is true, loosing 12LH upgrades by points wouldn't hurt so much if in return got vouchers worth 9LH upgrades.
6 RT biz flights would cost of cource around 8000€ to the places I am interested in travelling. 😆 Yea sounds crazy already haha
Jan 3, 2019, 6:30 am
#259
Join Date: Sep 2018
Programs: AY+ Lumo (LTG), LH SEN
Posts: 318
It would be good to get some confirmation if that actually works. There is the caveat of "minimum of 350k on Finnair flights". So is the minimum required just 225k, it being half for other tiers, or does the 350k on Finnair flights rule override that one? In other words can miles exchanges count towards Finnair flights miles? Do we have any reliable information from official sources?
Jan 3, 2019, 9:25 am
#264
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: HEL
Programs: lots of shiny metal cards
Posts: 14,105
It would be good to get some confirmation if that actually works. There is the caveat of "minimum of 350k on Finnair flights". So is the minimum required just 225k, it being half for other tiers, or does the 350k on Finnair flights rule override that one? In other words can miles exchanges count towards Finnair flights miles? Do we have any reliable information from official sources?
*(with the usual caveat of not doing it in the last 10 days or so of the qualification period)
Jan 3, 2019, 10:24 am
#265
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Plat Lumo
Posts: 1,519
Jan 3, 2019, 12:57 pm
#266
Join Date: May 2012
Location: GVA (HEL)
Programs: AY Plat (OWE)
Posts: 536
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Jan 3, 2019, 1:46 pm
#267
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: TLL
Programs: AY LUMO (500K+), Marriott Abassador, Hertz President Circle, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 214
Is it also down somewhere in T&C? as for Plat it works fine
I was the first one to do this a day after Lumo was launched. One needs 350k actual BiS on AY-code, the missing 100k can be converted from 300k redeemable points. One gets full Lumo "allowance" of vouchers* + the 400k threshold gift.
*(with the usual caveat of not doing it in the last 10 days or so of the qualification period)
*(with the usual caveat of not doing it in the last 10 days or so of the qualification period)
Jan 3, 2019, 2:34 pm
#269
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: FRA / HEL
Programs: AY+ Platsku, IC Plat. Amb., HHonors Gold, SPG Gold, etc.
Posts: 75
Originally Posted by Finnair
In case there are less than 7 days until the end of the tracking period, the tier change will take place at the beginning of the new tracking period.