Finnair Oyj
FINNAIR OYJwww.finnair.com
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Sep 26, 2026
ScottyHOST
She's on the phone.
ScottyHOST
She's on the phone with Finnair, who we're, we are flying with for one hour.
ScottyHOST
She's on the phone with American Airlines for 30 minutes, all since dinnertime, and I cooked dinner.
ScottyHOST
It was a complete disaster.
ScottyHOST
Well, so we kept trying.
ScottyHOST
So she gets on the phone.
ScottyHOST
The American Airlines lady's like, "Sorry, we can't help you." Gets on the phone with Finnair for an hour.
ScottyHOST
Homeboy, Alex is-- He's like, "Sorry, I can't do anything.
Kyle PotterHOST
If you're an American hub, Alaska is definitely the first place to look if you have those miles.
Kyle PotterHOST
Otherwise, I would say maybe trying to use Finnair miles.
Kyle PotterHOST
It's a little bit wonky.
Kyle PotterHOST
It requires calling in or using online chat to book, but it is well worth it for the savings.
Julia MenezHOST
But otherwise, me just moving points from Chase or Bilt over to United, instant every time.
Julia MenezHOST
The second one is with the Avios programs, and so pretty much everything will move into one of the Avios programs, and you can move them into British Airways and then into either Aer Lingus, Qatar, Finnair, or Iberia from there.
Julia MenezHOST
So let's say that Chase doesn't transfer directly into Qatar.
Julia MenezHOST
You can move Chase into British Airways into Qatar.
Julia MenezHOST
So depending on which transfer combination you're trying to do, sometimes your account needs to be, like, at least 90 days old, worst case.
Julia MenezHOST
So if you're thinking, "Which program should I sign up for now?", in case you're gonna get deeper into this game, go ahead and make a British Airways account, and then really just the five Avios accounts.
Julia MenezHOST
British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Qatar.
Julia MenezHOST
Go ahead and set up all those accounts.
Mark LenahanGUEST
So where people are investing their IT spends now is not migrating to a different PSS, it's developing the merchandising, uh, the personalization, offer and order, and figuring out how AI, um, you know, will optimize the customer experience.
Ian TunnacliffeHOST
Yeah, and while we saw a flurry of activity maybe a couple of years ago with airlines like British Airways, Finnair, Saudia announcing a commitment to Amadeus Nevio and Virgin Australia to Sabre and so on, what I think we're seeing more of now is airlines adopting some components, especially in the offer side.
Ian TunnacliffeHOST
And, and there's, there's quite, um, quite a lot of activity around offer optimization.
Ian TunnacliffeHOST
Um, Sabre is doing quite well with some of its Mosaic components in that respect, and of course, people like PROS are continuing to offer the things they always have.
Lenno UuskülaGUEST
And AirBaltic was doing that part.
Chris PetersonHOST
I have worked in Estonia for four years back in 2000s and what I always have wondered why Estonia hasn't established good relations with Finnair because I think that it is a good alternative to Air Baltic at least from geographically we see A finir creating a base also in Tallinn would be just a normal business decision.
Chris PetersonHOST
But I don't know, maybe you can elaborate.
Chris PetersonHOST
This is an off topic, of course, but maybe you have some ideas why that hasn't happened.
RayaHOST
The cool thing about obvious is you can transfer For example, if British Airways is the transfer bonus, you would transfer to British Airways.
RayaHOST
And then from British Airways, you can then transfer between the other Avios programs like Aer Lingus, Iberia, Finnair, etc.
RayaHOST
So, yeah.
RayaHOST
That's a really great transfer bonus whenever it is available.
NickHOST
So you can see geographically.
NickHOST
And I compared this to Finnair.
NickHOST
I was going to say.
NickHOST
When it happened.
NickHOST
Because Finnair copped the brunt of it as well.
NickHOST
Because a lot of their business was transporting people from Europe across into Asia.
NickHOST
And with the Russian airspace closure, it makes it very difficult for them to do so competitively.
NickHOST
So you can see Finnair contracted aircraft out to Qatar Airways, which at the time were going through A350 issues regarding paint degradation.
Chris CappyHOST
pilots flying around Estonia, Finland, Poland, and the Baltic Sea have reportedly increasingly severe interference with GPS and other satellite navigation signals.
Chris CappyHOST
By 2024, it had gotten so bad that Finnair temporarily suspended flights between Estonia and other areas of the Baltics.
Chris CappyHOST
after aircraft reportedly lost reliable gps signals while approaching the airport estonia publicly blamed russia and european officials have repeatedly traced the strongest interference toward russian territory around kalinograd and the western russian border think about what that means for a second modern civilian aviation shipping emergency services structure rely on that satellite navigation constantly russia only has to make the airplane less certain about exactly where it is to do this.
Chris CappyHOST
And the interference is also hitting ships in the Baltics and have reportedly manipulated or disrupted navigation signals.
Jason RabinowitzHOST
An airline of its nature, that is.
Jason RabinowitzHOST
Um, if you're familiar with the Finnair business class seat, it doesn't recline, but it's not nearly as nice and fully featured as it.
Jason RabinowitzHOST
Has no onboard entertainment screen or anything like that.
Jason RabinowitzHOST
It is just the most basic full flat seat for a basic low-cost airline.
Julia MenezHOST
Partner carriers are a different story.
Julia MenezHOST
So if you're using the Alaska Air website to book on partner airlines like British Airways, Iberia, and Finnair, you might end up paying quite a bit more fees.
Julia MenezHOST
That just happens with British Airways.
Julia MenezHOST
But other programs that you could book through Alaska, like JAL or Cathay Pacific, if you can find the award space, those are gonna have lower fees.
Julia MenezHOST
It's, like, $700 per person one way.
Julia MenezHOST
It's ridiculous.
Julia MenezHOST
But as we mentioned in some other videos, if you're going through Europe with American Airlines, see if you can book through Finnair instead because instead of paying $700 in taxes and fees, it might be $50 or $60, even more so if you're returning from Europe back to the United States.
Julia MenezHOST
Next up, there are some partners that you can book with American Airlines, but it's not very easy to do it online, and you kind of have to do it by phone.
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