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Old Feb 5, 2020, 12:01 am
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Originally Posted by Post Scriptum
HEL-SIN
Passengers: 4
Status: 2 Plats
Upgrade instrument: Points
Time of booking: T-180days
Time of upgrade request: T-180 days
Request-method: call
Upgrade cleared: N/A, retry today -150days and no success.
Still keep going on, given my demise to nearly pleb status, I had to beg for my, literally, better half to make the call. Request was pushed (tökkäisty) towards trash bi...the other department but no luck. So, maybe chances for clearing are still there but it is also bit annoying how this system essentially hijacks the vouchers and points for indefinite period of time. So, book on the class you want to fly and use points for...something, koristeluraappa's perhaps, or lunches with ePassi.
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 12:04 am
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Originally Posted by Post Scriptum
or lunches with ePassi.
If only one could exchange one’s SH vouchers into lounassetelis.
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 12:22 am
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Originally Posted by lkrt
If only one could exchange one’s SH vouchers into lounassetelis.
1:1 conversion because lounasseteli is premium-voucher that clears immediately without waitlisting.
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 12:44 am
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Originally Posted by Post Scriptum
1:1 conversion because lounasseteli is premium-voucher that clears immediately without waitlisting.
And after a year or so, this will be enhanced to require going through a waitlist "as a benefit to our top tier customers".
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 12:51 am
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"as a benefit to our lowest paying customers but who are willing to pay ancillary fee for the knife&fork-comfort package"
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 1:33 am
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What is a lounasseteli? A Riistaleipä-pass?
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 4:12 am
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Originally Posted by FFlash
What is a lounasseteli? A Riistaleipä-pass?
It was used in the age of telefaxes and when an i386 processor was a speed devil

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Old Feb 5, 2020, 4:54 am
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Originally Posted by WilcoRoger
It was used in the age of telefaxes and when an i386 processor was a speed devil

Those were the days...Finnair’s fleet was mostly of California/Missouri origin...they never ran out of champagne and and free flowing Remy Martin was served, also in coach..☺️
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 5:01 am
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As we already gone way off-topic, can someone remember the exchange rate Markka to Krona (in the era of telefax)?
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 5:21 am
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Originally Posted by intuition
As we already gone way off-topic, can someone remember the exchange rate Markka to Krona (in the era of telefax)?
On 31 December 1997 looks like you needed approximately 0.7 Markkas to buy a Krona.
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 5:34 am
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Originally Posted by intuition
As we already gone way off-topic, can someone remember the exchange rate Markka to Krona (in the era of telefax)?
In 1993 the range was 100 mk = 129-138 kr

https://www.riksbank.se/sv/statistik...=1&s=Comma&f=y
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 5:48 am
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Back to topic, it would be good to collect some data points here from Gold/Plats/Lumos (though I don't think Lumos ever get any issues..) about cases where people are losing their vouchers due to requests not clearing and hence losing expired vouchers as a result. This is not so relevant for points as they basically don't expire anymore. So far I have had none but the next few moths might start seeing them going. If that happens systematically...well......and, if possible it would also be nice to know the fare class availability at the stage when upgrade was finally denied/waitlist closed.
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 6:32 am
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I really hate the limited validity of the vouchers - therefore I tend to use them at first opportunity and use points only when the vouchers are all gone.
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Old Feb 5, 2020, 6:36 am
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Originally Posted by WilcoRoger
I really hate the limited validity of the vouchers - therefore I tend to use them at first opportunity and use points only when the vouchers are all gone.
I always do the same...however with the new system this doesn’t help much, I have already waitlisted some upgrades for >6 months...with wide open I9 availability...🤬😟
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Old Feb 10, 2020, 4:48 am
  #165  
 
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HEL-MPX
Status: Plat
Upgrade instrument: Voucher
Time of booking: T-36 days
Time of upgrade request: T-36 days
Request-method: Finnair web
Upgrade cleared within 24h: yes, immediately
Time of upgrade confirmation: T-36
Upgrade indication: Email with new tickets

MPX-HEL
Status: Plat
Upgrade instrument: Voucher
Time of booking: T-39 days
Time of upgrade request: T-39 days
Request-method: email to CS (no availability in web)
Upgrade cleared within 24h: no
Time of upgrade confirmation: T-19 days
Upgrade indication: Email with new tickets
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