Airlines
Finnair Collaborates with IAG Loyalty to Embrace Avios Starting 2024
Beginning in early 2024, Finnair will update its Finnair Plus loyalty programme by making Avios its new loyalty currency.
Finnair Plus members, both current and new, will have more possibilities to accrue and spend the program’s new reward currency as a result of the partnership with IAG reward to adopt Avios. Additionally, a new spend-based platform will be used by the Finnair Plus programme.
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When members hit specific point thresholds within their current tier, the programme will provide new milestone advantages that will allow them to gain extra prizes like upgraded benefits.
Additionally, regardless of their tier status, members of Finnair Plus will now have free messaging-related internet access as a new perk on Finnair’s short-haul European flights operated by the narrow-body Airbus aircraft. This is an added incentive to sign up for the programme.
In addition, Finnair will spend money on new, larger lounge facilities on the Schengen side of Helsinki Airport, which serves as its primary hub. A special area will be reserved for top-tier members when the lounge relocates to new space in 2024. Before the new lounge opens, the present Schengen lounge will continue to service guests.
Finnair will start using Avios as its new loyalty currency in the first quarter of 2024, giving Finnair Plus customers new chances to accrue and redeem loyalty points on partner airlines. This applies to online purchases made with thousands of top brands through shopping.ba.com and with IAG Loyalty’s expanding global network of partners, which includes BP, Nectar, and Uber in the UK, Areas airport retail, Cabify in Spain, and Bilt in the US.
Finnair’s oneworld partners British Airways Executive Club, Qatar Airways Privilege Club, and Iberia Plus all use Avios as their preferred method of payment. The value of the current Finnair Plus award miles will be converted to Avios at a 3:2 ratio, and the price of Avios will also be updated at the same rate.
