2021 promotions
Aug 11, 2021, 12:57 am
#151
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: C2
Posts: 651
20% point discount on award flights
Only valid for bookings on website, not waitlists
E.g. 24K return intra-Europe and 72K return intercontinental
Also noticed they reduced their one-way ticket prices to be exactly half of they return prices. E.g return always was 30K and 20K for one-way
Only valid for bookings on website, not waitlists
E.g. 24K return intra-Europe and 72K return intercontinental
Also noticed they reduced their one-way ticket prices to be exactly half of they return prices. E.g return always was 30K and 20K for one-way
72K Intercontinental? Japan 90k, I just checked since I have award ticket with schedule change and saw an oppurtunity to cancel and rebook but no 72k to be seen.
Aug 11, 2021, 1:06 am
#152
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2014
Location: HEL
Programs: AY+Plat, ALL Plat, Scandic L2
Posts: 3,620
The promo is "on almost all [their] European routes as well as to and from Hong Kong, South Korea and Thailand". So of course not Japan.
Not that I'd expect to be able to get to HK any sooner than JP
Not that I'd expect to be able to get to HK any sooner than JP
Aug 11, 2021, 1:07 am
#153
Company Representative, Finnair
Join Date: Aug 2020
Programs: Finnair +
Posts: 38
Aug 11, 2021, 1:25 am
#154
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Seat 1L these days :)
Programs: AF Platinum/AY LUMO/SK EBG/baEC S/HYATT Globalist/MR LTP/A3 *G/HH Dia/IHG plat
Posts: 7,962
Lol are any of those destinations available for general travel now or all come with a 1-3 week quarantine 🤷🏼♂️🤦
Well not sure about Korea have not been following...
But the EU is good....
US shines with it's absence from this promo
Well not sure about Korea have not been following...
But the EU is good....
US shines with it's absence from this promo
Aug 11, 2021, 1:38 am
#155
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: C2
Posts: 651
Of course not 🙂. This is for travel in the future, when you might get there. In my case travel isn't available from my departure airport anyway. I'm not doing overnigths in HEL or train/bus/car so here I'm sitting, dreaming about travelling in 2022.
Aug 11, 2021, 1:49 am
#156
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: HEL
Programs: lots of shiny metal cards
Posts: 14,107
Latest second hand info on KR was 2 weeks horrible hotel quarantine. KR nationals can do it at home - unmarried KR/not-KR couples are separated. KR partner home, non-KR partner government quarantine.
Aug 11, 2021, 2:11 am
#157
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Helsinki-Vantaa APT, Finland
Programs: AY LUMO
Posts: 6,059
2 weeks in the same closet would be the end of marriage.Friend of mine took 2 bedroom quarantine hotel in BKK to him and his wife just to keep balance in mental health.
Aug 11, 2021, 2:28 am
#158
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: HEL
Programs: lots of shiny metal cards
Posts: 14,107
Of course they could also just go home and do the quarantine there... but you need to be married to do that in KR
Aug 11, 2021, 2:53 am
#159
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Seat 1L these days :)
Programs: AF Platinum/AY LUMO/SK EBG/baEC S/HYATT Globalist/MR LTP/A3 *G/HH Dia/IHG plat
Posts: 7,962
Oh well
Aug 11, 2021, 2:55 am
#160
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: AY+ Lumo, HH Diamond
Posts: 503
If you bought points at the chepeast they've been on offer (0.64 euro cents per point), EU return amounts to 153.6 eur. Most days in EU traffic for the coming 1-2 weeks are already double that. Using also points accrued from flying, this can be a good offer. What are the T&C?
Aug 11, 2021, 5:50 am
#161
Join Date: Mar 2018
Programs: AY+ Platinum / FlyingBlue Gold
Posts: 835
Full info here:https://www.finnair.com/nl-en/book-a...ights-for-less
Aug 11, 2021, 6:21 am
#162
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: TMP
Programs: AY+ Plat, SK Gold, BT VIP, Radisson Premium, Accor Platinum
Posts: 794
Thanks! I hadn't noticed the change in one way ticket pricing, booked some flights to MAD for Jan & Feb. Returns with airBaltic as the schedule is much better (and they may even fly to TMP)..
Aug 12, 2021, 1:46 am
#164
Company Representative, Finnair
Join Date: Aug 2020
Programs: Finnair +
Posts: 38
Aug 16, 2021, 8:53 am
#165
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: TKU
Programs: some
Posts: 164
All is well, unless you're in a rush. I would expect these point purchase promos every 3-4 months. The best (recent) price for points has been 0.64 euro cents per point.
Bear in mind that
You should therefore have a clear purpose in mind for using the points if you proceed to buy them. Great savings can be had for premium airfares etc. for sure, but it comes with a certain risk and certain restrictions regarding e.g. availability.
Personally, I bought points in the recent NOV20 sale with the intention of using them towards status requalification in 2024 and onwards, and upgrades. In my case and for my flying pattern it made sense - still does unless AY decides to water down the points' value.
Bear in mind that
- Fundamentally, points are not money. There's several court cases where even the airlines have argued that loyalty points do not have any monetary value and thus should not be compensated.
- With airlines burning their cash reserves and desperate to sell their loyalty points, it's likely that points will suffer from severe inflation sooner than later especially once executing the liability materialises for the airlines. This inflation is happening already every day with hotel and airline loyalty program T&C 'enhancements', often done in secrecy. Still, AY has not yet hiked up e.g. point-based upgrades; and there's a part of me that expects e.g. intra-europe upgrade, currently at 10,000 award points, to be 15,000 or 20,000 award points this time next year.
- Money will always work. One aspect of the point inflation can be expected to be reduced points-based upgrade availability too. Point awards often come with restrictions. You may encounter many frustrating difficulties when you actually want to redeem hotel gift cards that you bought in a promotion (from the outright lie against the hotel brand policy of "sorry, we are unable to accept these gift cards" to "we get like only one of these per year and we don't know how to enter it into the system so you must pay with money"), or would like to use your AY points.
You should therefore have a clear purpose in mind for using the points if you proceed to buy them. Great savings can be had for premium airfares etc. for sure, but it comes with a certain risk and certain restrictions regarding e.g. availability.
Personally, I bought points in the recent NOV20 sale with the intention of using them towards status requalification in 2024 and onwards, and upgrades. In my case and for my flying pattern it made sense - still does unless AY decides to water down the points' value.