Finnair AY Cheap Airfares - How to Get Them

[Gold60]

Hi,

i am looking at the mechanics on getting the cheaper BIZ AY airfares please ?

For example, do you first join their FF programme from/in Australia, and elect to get them to email you their specials ?

Or do you pretend you are in Asia somewhere?

Or do you just join their mailing list from their Finland HQ and look at the Asian originating trips?

I am looking at either a return trip from Asia to LHR or to go RTW with them.

Obviously i would then have to get from BNE to Asia - i am looking at SCOOT from OOL as an option.

Any ideas please ?

TIA

 

[serfty]

You could try this: https://www.finnair.com/au/gb/flights/subscribe-to-finnair-newsletter

 

[Gold60]

thank you kindly. if you are not interested in the FF points as such, is there any need to join their FF programme, if its the cheaper flights you are after ?

You could try this: https://www.finnair.com/au/gb/flights/subscribe-to-finnair-newsletter

 

[Isochronous]

thank you kindly. if you are not interested in the FF points as such, is there any need to join their FF programme, if its the cheaper flights you are after ?

No, the cheaper fares are available to everybody. Often it is easier to book the AY specials via a travel agent, especially their RTW fare or if you want to enter/leave Europe through different ports.

 

[Gold60]

thank you. when you sign up for the newsletter with specials, does it matter if you nominate BNE/SYD, etc, or an Asian port as your point of origin ?

or does the point of origin only indicate what currency the fares will be quoted in ?

No, the cheaper fares are available to everybody. Often it is easier to book the AY specials via a travel agent, especially their RTW fare or if you want to enter/leave Europe through different ports.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

thank you. when you sign up for the newsletter with specials, does it matter if you nominate BNE/SYD, etc, or an Asian port as your point of origin ?

or does the point of origin only indicate what currency the fares will be quoted in ?

SYD/BNE shouldn't matter. Selecting Asia will likely get you fares from Asia.

Fares are usually market specific. Specials offered from Australia from time to time may have no correlation to fares from other countries, and v.v.

 

[OZDUCK]

thank you. when you sign up for the newsletter with specials, does it matter if you nominate BNE/SYD, etc, or an Asian port as your point of origin ?

or does the point of origin only indicate what currency the fares will be quoted in ?

When we used AY to Ireland last year, on a 2 for 1 special, I signed up for alerts with Singapore as my "port of origin". This means that all the e-mailed specials come in using Singapore dollars. However, once on the Finnair site it is easy to select flight prices from any port - they are then quoted in that local currency. We had no problems booking all our flights in this way but you do pay in Singapore dollars so be aware of possible conversion charges. Our points were credited to our CX accounts

We hopped up to Singapore in SQ Y.

AY were fine, well except for cancelling our Sin - Hel flight. But they then put us on QR in J which was an eye-opener and we will be flying QR out of Singapore in a few months - trying ScootBiz for the connection this time.

 

[Captain Halliday]

If you have more than one sector in mind this thread might help: AY RTW Sale

 

[Spongbob]

Are they next to strange beasts?