Bsidebaby

looking at cheap flights back to uk for a holiday and wondered if anyone else has used them to/from UK/Canada? Through gotraveldirect.com.

Just wanted to get experiences and comparisons to other budget airlines - thanks!

JonboyE

National carrier of Finland. I have flow with them from UK to Helsinki to Japan a couple of times. They are as good as anyone else.

Snave

Aren't they part of the British Airways One World Alliance?
FWIW these means you get BA Air Miles when you fly them, or can use BA Air Miles towards a Finnair flight.

bgpz

If Star Alliance is anything to go by, you ought to double-check what fare code the ticket's booked under. There are many fare codes, and not all are created equal when it comes to miles accumulation - and this can vary when you're crediting miles from one FF plan to another on the same airline.

That said, I loved Finnair when I had a work trip to northern Finland. Transiting through Helsinki was a breeze compared to, say, Heathrow or Frankfurt - and I was much more impressed with the Finnair planes and service compared to BA (flew out on a BA flight, back with Finnair - they codeshare this route, but it's not too hard to work out which flights are which)

dimsum

I flew Finnair last summer and it was the worst airline i have have ever flown with. Not only were they rude but completely unreasonable when they decided to change the flight schedule 1 week before departure and leave me sitting in an airport for 8 hours and an extra 2 stops. I had booked the ticket 6 months in advance. They wouldnt even give me mealtickets. Never again I say!

Alan2005

Me neither - I flew finnair from Tokyo to Helsinki and it is by far the worst flight I have experienced before or since. Crap food - rubbish seats which seamed smaller than any other flight I've been on - uggh, i'd rather go air canada!

Wearsider

I flew 132 times in 2008, so I feel qualified to share my views.

All airline food is crap (take your own if it is an issue), there is not that much difference between a good economy seat and a bad economy seat (they are all slightly uncomfortable), it's only a few hour out of your life, if time is not an issue and you are paying for the flights yourself, go for the cheapest flight you can.