Finnair Business Bangkok to Barcelona from $2,201 USD

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TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS: no travel end date.
SALES RESTRICTIONS: no sales end date.

• Booking class: I
• Price: from $2,201 ($2,137 base fare + taxes & surcharges).
• Day/time restrictions: -/-
• Advanced reservation/ticketing restrictions: -/-
• Minimum stay: -/-
• Maximum stay: -/-
• Stopovers: 1 free stopover permitted in HEL.
• Cancellations: ticket is non-refundable.
• Changes: changes not permitted.

Unrestricted min/max stay is great for nesting itineraries. Earning to usual OW partners (and Alaska) 100-150% RDM.

And if you have vast amounts of patience, energy and the ability to sift through loads of cough, you might just be able to work out how many status credits this earns with Qantas, courtesy of “Simpler and Fairer”.

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Source: Airfare of the Day [Business Class] FINNAIR Bangkok to Barcelona from $2,201

 

[SYD]

It’s actually quite good for QF SCs earn. The usual 120 Asia to HEL + 80 SCs HEL-BCN (MAD would be the same). UK / West Euro is usually 60 SCs.

Also, it’s a “Lite” fare. No seat selection, lounge nor checked bags unless with OW status.

 

[moa999]

Any other endpoints?

 

[andye]

Iberia earns pretty good avios on Finnair too

 

[SYD]

Earn table (from Where To Credit) is in the article.

Airfare of the Day [Business Class] FINNAIR Bangkok to Barcelona from $2,201

Today’s Airfare of the Day goes to Finnair and their business class light fares (no checked luggage/seat selection/lounge access) for round trip travel departing from Bangkok (BKK)…

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[madrooster]

Any other endpoints?

All of Western/Central Europe.

You can also stopover in HKG and SIN.

 

[clifford]

You can also stopover in HKG and SIN.

But not for the same price, I imagine.

 

[madrooster]

But not for the same price, I imagine.

Of course not - there's airport taxes involved. As long as the availability is there, there's no fare surcharge for doing so.

 

[OZDUCK]

I notice that Finnair have now stopped a nice little bit of cost avoidance on their Multi City bookings. In 2020 we had booked a trip in J which had a routing of Per - Sin - Hel (with a 3 day stopover in Helsinki) - Fra with the return flights being Dus (Dusseldorf) - Hel - Sin. This priced out at about $8300 for 2 and undercut a the J return fare Per - Fra - Per by about $4,000. This left plenty of money for a short Sin - Per hop in ScootPlus. Unfortunately this trip never happened because of a certain virus.

Finnair FAQ's now say that on a Multi City ticket "You must return from the same continent you flew to and to the same continent you left from". QR did the same a year or so after we had used a Multi City ticket to fly Singapore - Barcelona - Perth and saved thousands.

 

[madrooster]

Finnair FAQ's now say that on a Multi City ticket "You must return from the same continent you flew to and to the same continent you left from". QR did the same a year or so after we had used a Multi City ticket to fly Singapore - Barcelona - Perth and saved thousands.

AY definitely still allow such a thing but QR doesn't.

 

[OZDUCK]

AY definitely still allow such a thing but QR doesn't.

Odd. When I try the Finnair site with a Perth departure it will not let me select a final destination for the return flight from Europe to either Bangkok or Singapore. The same thing happens if I select Singapore as the departure point when only Asian destinations are available to be selected for the return point. For me it seems to operate exactly as the Finnair FAQ's say - you can't select a multi city trip with a return to a port on a different continent to the departure one.

 

[madrooster]

Odd. When I try the Finnair site with a Perth departure it will not let me select a final destination for the return flight from Europe to either Bangkok or Singapore. The same thing happens if I select Singapore as the departure point when only Asian destinations are available to be selected for the return point. For me it seems to operate exactly as the Finnair FAQ's say - you can't select a multi city trip with a return to a port on a different continent to the departure one.

It's probably a restriction on the AY site then. I can confirm such a routing (including double open jaws) prices just fine in the GDS.

 

[OZDUCK]

It's probably a restriction on the AY site then. I can confirm such a routing (including double open jaws) prices just fine in the GDS.

Ah - thanks. That explains our different results.