Use Avios on Finnair award flights

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What is an award flight?

An award flight is a flight ticket that you pay for with Avios instead of money.

You can buy them for Finnair flights and our partner airlines' flights.

Finnair Classic award flights

You can buy Finnair Classic award flight tickets to Finnair flights (flight numbers marked with an AY code) operated by Finnair or Norra.
Award flights can be booked in all travel classes: Economy, Premium Economy and Business.
The ticket includes one checked bag (max. 23kg) in all travel classes and reservation for a standard seat in all travel classes.
Award flight prices are fixed by route – you’ll pay the same amount of Avios for a given journey, no matter when you fly. Destinations are grouped into eight pricing zones.
On top of the Avios, you will need to pay an additional surcharge, taxes and passenger fees depending on the route.

How to book an award flight

Choose the Award flights tab from the booking engine on our front page.
Log in to your Finnair Plus account.
Choose your destination and dates and proceed with your booking.

Book an award flight

Finnair award flight prices

All prices are for flights in one direction from/to Helsinki; double prices for round trips.

Note that if you purchase your award flights through our customer service, there is an extra charge of 500 Avios for one-way flights and 1,000 Avios for round-trip flights.

When your award booking includes a connecting flight, Avios will be charged separately for each flight, except for flights within zone 1 (Finland and Northern Europe*).

Example: When you book a London–Helsinki–Singapore award flight, Avios are charged separately for the London–Helsinki flight and the Helsinki–Singapore flight. But when you book a Stockholm–Helsinki–Singapore award flight, we charge Avios only for the Helsinki–Singapore flight.

Avios prices for Finnair Classic award flights

Zone	Economy Class	Premium Economy	Business Class
Finland and Northern Europe*	6,500 Avios	-	10,000 Avios
Central Europe**	12,000 Avios	-	18,000 Avios
Western and Southern Europe***	13,000 Avios	-	20,000 Avios
Canary Islands, Madeira, Eilat and Tel Aviv****	15,000 Avios	-	25,000 Avios
Doha, Dubai and India*****	28,000 Avios	42,000 Avios	55,000 Avios
Most of Asia and North America****** and Bangkok–Melbourne	30,000 Avios	43,500 Avios	62,500 Avios
Japan, Singapore and Los Angeles*******	30,000 Avios	43,500 Avios	62,500 Avios
Melbourne	60,000 Avios	87,000 Avios	125,000 Avios

Additional surcharge for award flights

Zone	Economy Class	Premium Economy	Business Class
Finland and Northern Europe*	€10	-	€10
Central Europe**	€15	-	€15
Western and Southern Europe***	€15	-	€15
Canary Islands, Madeira, Eilat and Tel Aviv****	€30	-	€30
Doha, Dubai and India*****	€30	€35	€60
Most of Asia and North America****** and Bangkok–Melbourne	€45	€65	€100
Japan, Singapore and Los Angeles*******	€45	€65	€120
Melbourne	€70	€90	€150

The surcharge cannot be paid with Avios.

Prices are for flights in one direction; double prices for round trips.

*Zone 1: Bodø, Copenhagen, Gdansk, Gothenburg, Kirkenes, Oslo, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Trondheim, Umeå, Vilnius, Visby, Warsaw and all flights within Finland

**Zone 2: Alta, Amsterdam, Bergen, Berlin, Billund, Brussels, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Krakow, Kuressaare, Ljubljana, London, Luxembourg, Manchester, Munich, Prague, Salzburg, Stavanger, Tromsø, Zagreb, Zurich, Vienna

***Zone 3: Alanya, Alicante, Antalya, Barcelona, Bologna, Catania, Chania, Dublin, Dubrovnik, Faro, Florence, Geneva, Heraklion, Larnaca, Lisbon, Madrid, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Milan, Naples, Nice, Paris, Reykjavik, Rhodes, Rome, Santorini, Split, Thessaloniki, Tirana, Turin, Valencia, Venice, Verona

****Zone 4: Gran Canaria, Eilat, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, Madeira, Tel Aviv, Tenerife

*****Zone 5: Delhi, Doha, Dubai, Mumbai

******Zone 6: Bangkok, Chicago, Dallas, Guangzhou, Hongkong, Phuket, Miami, New York, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, Toronto

*******Zone 7: Los Angeles, Nagoya, Osaka, Singapore, Tokyo

Zone 8: Melbourne

Guaranteed seats

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.*

Note that in Premium Economy and Business Class award flights and travel class upgrades share the same quota.

Award seats are available for booking through all channels 360 days prior to departure.

*Excluding flights where our partners (tour operators such as Aurinkomatkat) have reserved the majority of the seats, flights to and from Doha and flights that do not depart from or arrive at Helsinki Airport.

Number of guaranteed seats per travel class

Economy Class: at least 4
Premium Economy: at least 2
Business Class: at least 2

Exchange upgrade benefits for two-for-one award flights

Finnair Plus Gold, Platinum and Platinum Lumo members can exchange four upgrade benefits for a two-for-the-price-of-one Finnair Classic award flight in Economy and Premium Economy Class.

This means that you can purchase award flights for two people but pay the Avios cost of an award flight for one person. To purchase two-for-one award flights, please contact our customer service.

Round-trip award flights must depart from and return to the same city. This does not apply to one-way award flights.
The Avios cost of an award flight is for one person only.
The Avios costs in the table above apply when you make the purchase online. If you purchase your Finnair Classic award flights through our customer service, there is an extra charge of 500 Avios for one-way flights and 1,000 Avios for round-trip flights.
Award flights are only valid for Finnair flights (restrictions apply to codeshare flights).
The customer is liable to pay additional surcharges and all passenger fees and taxes related to award flights.
Connections for award flights are always booked for the first possible flight. No stopovers are permitted.
The outbound and return flights of a round trip may not be on the same day.
Customers can make changes with certain restrictions for the Finnair Classic award flight.
One stopover is permitted on round trip long-haul flights.
If the customer travels in multiple travel classes during an award journey, the cost of that award will be calculated based on the highest travel class.
The corresponding number of Avios will be debited from the account when an award booking is made.
Award bookings may not be exchanged for money, nor may travel class upgrades be made with Avios.
No compensation or refund will be paid for unused award tickets.
The number of seats available with award flight booking classes is limited.
It is not possible to book awards for certain times and routes.

For more information about purchasing and using award flights, please see Finnair Plus rules.

Combine Avios with money

Don't have enough Avios for an award flight? You can also use your Avios to reduce the cash amount of the Finnair flight ticket's price.

Log in as a Finnair Plus member, start booking flights as usual and once you reach the payment page, select Avios as the payment method. You can freely set the combination of Avios and money that suits you.