Finnair to launch Melbourne-Helsinki flights

[MEL_Traveller]

It's still the case that you can only use the multi-city engine to get results for Finnair from AU to Europe. The points calculator doesn't return useful info. I'm getting via multi-city 182,900 for MEL-BKK-HEL-KFL. Is that what it should cost ? (It's less than what the points calculator gives for MEL-SIN-HEL (QF+AY) as a one-way.)

mixing QF and AY will break the award and charge them separately as theyre in different award tables. Staying with AY will keep the award as a ‘through fare’.

 

[Pete98765432]

Does anyone have any insight into when AY will release their 2027 northern summer timetable? There have been no flights available to book after 27/3/27 for several days (including revenue flights on their website).

 

[01ellioc]

Has anyone been able to see and book 2x business class seats MEL-BKK-HEL (or return) using Avios?

I understand that the seat guarantee should see 2x U fares loaded 360 days out, so have timed searches for a couple of weeks now (when inventory appears) and can only ever see one business seat. I have set my location to Finland on the Finnair website as I saw that was an issue for some people. I have 125k Avios in my Finnair account, the exact amount for one redemption, so is it fair to assume I need the full 250k to be able to see the availability?

Thought I would pose the question before transferring more CC points to Avios, in case I was missing something obvious. Thanks!

 

[freqflyer77]

Has anyone been able to see and book 2x business class seats MEL-BKK-HEL (or return) using Avios?

I understand that the seat guarantee should see 2x U fares loaded 360 days out, so have timed searches for a couple of weeks now (when inventory appears) and can only ever see one business seat. I have set my location to Finland on the Finnair website as I saw that was an issue for some people. I have 125k Avios in my Finnair account, the exact amount for one redemption, so is it fair to assume I need the full 250k to be able to see the availability?

Thought I would pose the question before transferring more CC points to Avios, in case I was missing something obvious. Thanks!

"We guarantee a minimum number of award seats on each flight: at least four award seats on Finnair flights within Europe and eight on Finnair long-haul flights between Europe and Asia, North America and Dubai.*"

The guarantee doesn't appear to cover Australian flights.