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With two Business Class seats available per flight, and with virtually all flights from 1st February 2024 being opened up, this is a great time to jump in. The problem has been availability.įrom Wednesday, this problem should be gone. Conclusionįinnair long haul redemptions have always offered great value on those routes with no surcharges.

If you want the whole trip on one ticket (upside: luggage checked through, 2nd flight protected against late arrival, downside: taxes are higher due to UK Air Passenger Duty) you may need to call. Try as I might, I couldn’t get it to price the above route from London to Seoul via Helsinki. If you book both flights on the same booking, the taxes figure will jump sharply due to UK long haul premium level Air Passenger Duty.īa.com seems to have an issue at the moment booking connecting flights on Finnair.

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This is what you’d expect from the chart above, ie 77,250 Avios each way for a flight in the 4,001 to 5,500 miles band.Īdding a London connection would cost 18,000 Avios in Economy or 33,000 Avios in Business, plus taxes. Here is an example redemption using Business Class from Helsinki to Seoul.Ī return flight (Helsinki to Seoul) costs 154,500 Avios + £58 in taxes and charges. You will NOT find mega-cheap taxes and charges deals on Finnair flights to: Booking through ba.com, as you will be, surcharges ARE added when you book a route where Finnair is part of a joint venture deal with British Airways. The exceptionally good news is that Finnair does not add taxes or surcharges to its redemptions. If you book each leg separately on the outbound, you won’t need to pay long haul Air Passenger Duty which will bring down your costs considerably.

You need to remember that pricing is leg by leg, so you will pay the Avios price for your long haul flight plus the cost of the London / Manchester / Edinburgh / Dublin to Helsinki connecting flight. Here are, I think, the current Finnair long haul destinations from Helsinki: It is less of a detour to go via Helsinki to Asia than it is to the USA, although the closure of Russian airspace has impacted flight times. Avios availability on BA is also very poor in Business Class. Business Class availablility to the US from London on BA isn’t bad and it’s a long detour to go via Helsinki.įinnair has a strong Asian network, whilst British Airways currently has an exceptionally poor one. Where does Finnair fly long haul?Īs a member of the British Airways / American Airlines / Iberia / Aer Lingus transatlantic cartel joint venture, Finnair’s network is strong on the United States.įrankly, this isn’t a lot of use to HfP readers in the UK. However, Finnair has historically been quite tight with Business Class reward availability on long haul, so I would expect a LOT of seats to open up. Where Finnair has already made Avios seats available on a flight from 1st February 2024 onwards, which have been booked, will these be deducted from the seats released tomorrow?įor example, if two Business Class seats have already been released and booked for the Tokyo flight on 1st March 2024, will more be released as part of the ‘guaranteed’ availability? Finnair will unleash Avios seats across its entire network. The increased number of award seats will be available for booking from 1 November 2023 onwards for flights departing on or after 1 February 2024. We will increase the number of Classic award seats and guarantee at least 4 award seats on Finnair flights within Europe and 8 on Finnair long-haul flights*, so you will have better possibilities to use your Avios for award flights. NEW: These seats will be bookable on Wednesdayįinnair has quietly dropped the following announcement onto the Avios page of its website: eight award seats on long haul flights (two in Business, two in Premium Economy and four in Economy).4-6 award seats on shorthaul European flights (two in Business where it exists, four in Economy).This should make it significantly easier to redeem Avios for Finnair flights. Finnair will guarantee between four and eight award seatsĪs we told you back in August, Finnair will guarantee a minimum number of seats for Avios redemption on almost all flights from 1st February.

If you want to learn about how Finnair Plus will work when it adopts Avios, you should read our article here.

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However, it brings new options to earn and redeem Avios on non-airline partners, as well as letting BA members use Avios to upgrade Finnair flights. With ‘just’ 4 million members, Finnair Plus is a minnow compared to British Airways Executive Club and Qatar Privilege Club, adding just 10% to the total member base.