Use Avios on Finnair award flights

Your Avios can fly you around the world, as you can use Avios to purchase award flights, and pay for Finnair flights or flights with our partner airlines with Avios. For Finnair flights, you can book a Classic award flight using Avios only or pay for a flight by combining Avios with money.

Finnair Classic award flights

Finnair award flights are a great way to make use of your Avios. You can buy Finnair Classic award flight tickets to Finnair flights (flight numbers marked with an AY code) operated by Finnair or Norra.

The price of the award flight in Avios depends on your destination, travel class and whether you purchase a return or one-way flight. The ticket includes one checked bag (max. 23kg) in all travel classes and a seat reservation for a standard seat. 

On top of the Avios, you will need to pay an additional surcharge depending on the route.

How to book a Finnair Classic award flight

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

Avios prices for Finnair award flights

The prices in the table below are for online reservations and valid from 9 March 2024 onwards. Please note that 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 return flights.

Finnair award 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*).

For 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.  

Additional surcharges

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, Oslo, Riga, Stockholm, Tallinn, Trondheim, Vilnius, Visby, Warsaw and all flights within Finland

**Zone 2: Amsterdam, Bergen, Berlin, Billund, Brussels, Budapest, Düsseldorf, Edinburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Innsbruck, Krakow, Ljubljana, London, Manchester, Munich, Prague, Salzburg, Tromsø, Wroclaw, Zagreb, Zurich, Vienna

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

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

We have increased the number of Classic award seats on our flights and guarantee a minimum number of award seats on each flight. We guarantee at least 4 award seats on Finnair flights within Europe and 8 on Finnair long-haul flights between Europe and Asia, North America and Dubai*.

You can also use Business Class and Premium Economy award seats for travel class upgrades.

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

* Excluding flights where our partners (tour operators such as Aurinkomatkat (Suntours)) have reserved the majority of the seats, flights to and from Doha and flights that do not depart from or arrive at Helsinki Airport. 
** Please note that we fly some routes without Business Class.