2019 Promotions
 

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Stay tuned for some "offers" or "gamifications"

How this game ended? How many points the winner collected?

This was the stupidest promo I have seen. Unclear what was eligible, flying or partners or both or what. At least I could not read it clearly anywhere, nor could I see anywhere how much of points I was earning during that. How do they think people will play if people don't know how to play?

There's another promo on upgrades in the latest edition of the Blue Wings magazine under the heading 'Best from partners' :confused: (page 83):

Northern Europe upgrades 5000 points
Europe upgrades 7000 points.

Sales period runs from 3-23 Jan.

Ahh, thanks for the heads up. I was expecting something like this as traditionally there's been one tied to the Travel Fair campaign fares in January.

I guess I'll blow a few points to upgrade some widebody LHR/BRU flights then...

If there's availability. Promos usually require you to process it online so waitlisting won't work. :(

No worries!
Just book some more flights ;)

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You Saved a blow :)

Man yeah. I saved my "nagging" too now :D

And bye bye to service fees this year! ^
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Does removing service fee mean that the ticket prices get closer to 3rd party travel agency (like ticket.fi) prices?

Did they also remove fees from other countries, for example the CHF 15 fee from Switzerland? Or does this apply only for exFI tickets?

Ahh, I was wondering why HEL-BRU was still pricing up as 10K... Oh well, maybe I'll save my miles on something better then.

At least https://www.finnair.com/ch/gb/ says yes, CHF 15 fee also removed.

Why did I have to buy 4 tickets on 31st December :mad:

You are right, even after without service fee, same tickets are now 0.55 EUR more expensive

Exact 5 EUR increase in base fare and 0.55 in taxes, fees and charges minus 5 EUR service fee.

How stupid do they think we are... :(

There was a typo. Text should read:
WE REMOVED OUR SERVICE, FEEBLE.

until service fee comes back again, the 5€ tix price increase staying

Funny how they use A359 C class picture for promoting European upgrades but all European A359 routes are blocked in this campaign. :(

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I can't decide what to do with the upgrade offer. I'd upgrade my upcoming A359 to LHR in a heartbeat, but that can't be done. Most of my other flights don't have F availability, with the exception of a morning flight to MXP, for which I currently have an exit seat. 7000 points for an empty middle and some uninspiring eggthing, yes or no? If it was a lunch or dinner flight, I'd probably take it.

You can also order a special meal and enjoy that for breakfast if you don't like the eggs. ;)

Same here. Got some AMS-HEL flights comin up with F availability but I just don't know....
Kinda reallly feels like a waste of points to spend those on a meal. Because basically that's it, as all the other benefits I already get as AY Gold.
Rather saving the points for a LH upgrade....

The last few posts kind of summarizes how spoilt the tier member in Y is :-)
Not even at promotional prices are upgrades to J of interest!

Maybe Finnair should go one-class again and be done with the worthless J class already!

Yup that's because there is a way better alternative to spend the points on, at least for me there is :-) And honestly, 7K or 10K points.... potato potato.
I fly mainly SH in economy light tickets, so very little points for me. They're quite precious.

Unlike on this ;) Oneclass is so boring!

Oh, I agree. And it shows in the thread about "more reasonable price for SH J" too.

There is virtually nothing to be had in J that the tier member doesn't already have in Y. As you say, the paid J earns more points but that is about it.
The thing is, even if they offered the upgrades for 50 points, I wonder if people are going to think it is worths the hustle. You give up exit row for a meal - who will waste points on that?

Regarding the earnings: I don't think the points-according-to-original-class thing is dicisive. I think it is about Y is too good and J is not good enough:
a) tier member already have "everything" in Y
and
b) SH J in itself is nothing extra.

So for the upgrades to be more valuable you'd have to do a little of both, say:
a) remove free drink and free seat selection for tier member i Y
b) go with proper 2+2 J

If such changes were to happen, I bet the upgrades would instantaneously become more valuable!

I know no one thinks 2+2 J will ever exist in Europe, but it is not that uncommon in other parts of the world.

Interesting ideas. So basically:

a) Make the standard product more inferior, to increase the attractiveness of the J upgrade. I am sure this would drive away quite a few tier members.
b) Invest in the J offering to actually make it better.

I wonder which would make better business sense.

BTW - Years back I remember flying one of the Baltic carriers (Lithuanian air?) which was operated on what apparently was a second-hand US domestic aircraft. They did have the proper 2+2 seating in J.

I think my personal threshold would be somewhere along 5k points for SH upgrade (excluding N. Europe), where I would start constantly taking up the offer. Here are some of the smaller things I value in SH J:

- Meal (these have improved so much that they beat most of the outstation lounge offerings)
- More private toilet at the front (also closer by)
- Guaranteed empty middle seat
- A little extra legroom at row 1 (consequently, if row 1 was not available, I wouldn't probably upgrade)

Proper 2-2 SH business class to me seems to be the standard everywhere else except Europe. Would be interesting to see the analysis on how much 8 proper seats up front would hurt or benefit the airline.

In economy class someone with You in toilet? :p

I heard that's a first class perk :cool: