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Travel: Will there be PJs?
Picking My Flights to Helsinki
The Qantas website is all but useless for good trip planning. I was flying into Helsinki, I wanted to fly Finnair in their wonderful spacious no-recline business seat, and the obvious routing for me is Canberra-Sydney-Asia-Helsinki. And back. Last time I flew out of Bangkok and that was fine, though there was a lot of standing around in queues.
Qantas.com had heaps of options for me, most of them going through Heathrow and using anything but Finnair. And hideously expensive. Or ridiculously inconvenient.
Even when I ditched the Canberra connection, things didn’t improve that much. In the old days, it seems to me, I got the Canberra legs tacked on for a token sum. No longer.
Google Flights indicated that Finnair was my best bet unless I wanted some non-oneWorld carriers or some really weird routings. No thanks.
I could have gotten cheaper flights by going through a third-party agent but if anything goes off the rails I’ve got to deal with those guys and that could be difficult and delaying.
So I booked on the Finnair site, crediting my travel to QFF. I’d rather deal with the airline directly if I need to, and they might be able to sort things…
