Jainzar

You can call and do the booking there (1k extra cost) and they can check the upgrade at the same time. You can also book and after the booking you should see in the app the option to upgrade straight for a LH voucher.
A "Two-for-one Classic award" is booking two Y returns for the price of one. Combining 4 SH vouchers to a LH voucher is a different thing. It can be done by CS, and they can apply it directly.
When adding flights on other airlines, you should look at the partner award chart for the whole travel. Otherwise you have 2 tickets.
No, but applying a LH voucher (and hence 4 SH vouchers) to the AY flight can be done.

martinlu

Thanks! Sorry for the confusion. I’m referring to the 4 SH vouchers here because the AY Plat benefits description says the following:Based on this language, it looks like I can get two one-way USA-HEL Y awards for the price of one as well, not only round trips.

Ah, so for, e.g., YYZ-ORD-HEL (AA connector with AY long haul), I would pay the AA partner booking amount for a Europe–North America award (78,000 AY pts one-way in Y)? Quite the additional fee for a connector flight, so might have to think of using cash or AA points for that.

martinlu

Two more questions:

1. What other OW carrier booking search engines should show the same or similar award availability for partners as AY has? E.g., should I be able to book the same AA award space I see on BA with AY?

2. Is it possible to string together AY award segments that only show up separately in booking search? E.g., Many dates have both USA-HEL and HEL-TLL available for awards separately, both they won't show up on the same USA-HEL-TLL booking. Is this some IT quirk that can be overcome over the phone or are there married segments involved and adding segments that only show up separately incurrs additional AY points?

intuition

Any experience in booking an oneway award, and at a later point alter that award to a return and pay according to the return points table?

lkrt

Oneway awards are exactly half the price from return awards, so probably you wouldn’t need to make it a return.

Unless you’re referring to something else than AY?

intuition

True, I was thinking about a partner-award, ie using ay+ points for ow-partners and finnair flights. In those cases, o/w is not 50% of return, in my case it is 60%.

FFlash

you may also just waitlist the return part. Did one such booking today as outbound was not available. Waitlist cleared on 2 hours, thanks to the ”other deparment” or whoever released more space.

(went then to select seats and so far no other seats were taken 😁?😁 despite this flight being IVL during easter

intuition

A waitlisting would indeed take care of a situation where economy award exists but not business awards. So it is a good tip for that. But I assume waitlisting is only available for a pure AY award? Or can they waitlist on partners too?

Another scenario is where you simply don't have enough points for a return but anticipate to have them in a future.
Yet another scenario is when the return is beyond the schedule, ie T+360 days, so no awards are yet bookable for the return.

It is in these cases I was thinking if it is possible to start with a o/w, and then monitor availability / wait for points to be earned and alter the award to return as soon as possible.

Flying Whale

Martinlu was asking earlier in thread about "class 2-4-1 award" and possibility to book oneway trip from US to Europe.

"European flights*You’ll get four one-way travel class upgrades, which you can use on any Finnair scheduled flights within Europe. If you wish, you can exchange the upgrades (all four of them) for a one-way intercontinental upgrade or a two-for-the-price-of-one Classic award flights in Economy Class. With this you can purchase award flights for two people from the Finnair Plus service centre but pay the point cost of an award flight for one person. Two-for-one Classic awards are only available for scheduled one-way and return flights operated by Finnair or Norra and must be purchased using points only."

Does this mean that this 2-4-1 award ticket can be actually used to book round-trip from Europe to US? I have always thought that this 2-4-1 ticket would be only for intra-Europe flights.

seldomrfly

Yes. Any economy award ticket can be booked 2-4-1 when using your 4 SH vouchers. As long as you find award availability. They will also charge 1000p for the phone service, you can't book 2-4-1 online.
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temppa

Just booked HEL-ARN economy redemption using BA Avios, seems that the X bucket / Partner award no longer has luggage allowance, is this something new? Does Finnair issued X-ticket still have 1PC?

remymartin

About ten days ago 1 pc was still included.

ffay005

I flew today HEL-AGP in X. Booked two weeks ago using points from a Silver member. My App showed 2 pc, which should be 1 pc for X class and 1 pc for Plat.

FFlash

For data point, this is what it shows for a Lumo +missus on award.

booking shows ”economy classic” FWIW. So I must be very sustainable and Light then.

miamiflyer8

It never ceases to baffle me how you get 2 full size carry ons plus a personal item but only 10kg combined…