My flight from Helsinki to London was at 8AM, and Finnair’s lounge only opened at 6AM. I still took the 5AM shuttle from the hotel to the airport.
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Terrible choice of wine, but again probably one the most sold brand in the Nordic countries JP. Chenet
I noticed in the back of one of the photos, they have a Playstation 4 setup. Thats actually a brilliant way to keep the kids busy before a flight, or those that are children at heart 😛
What a great looking lounge. I felt similarly about the other Priority Pass lounge in Helsinki, the Aspire Lounge, when I visited in 2013.
@FNT Delta Diamond
Who drinks wine at 5:30 a.m?
People going on holiday? Will assume it's a standard setup, and I think Lucky was there on a Saturday so probably a lot of tourists rather than people flying for work.
People in the Nordics don't drink much compared to Italy or France, but it's mostly done during the weekend so on a Saturday morning they might well get some takers.
Or eats a salad for breakfast?
Well I knew an vegetarian once that loved her salads for breakfast.
@FNT you haven't been to Finland. They get plastered on weekends and when going on holiday. I had the misfortune of going on a charter flight from Helsinki to Rhodes many years ago.
@FNT Delta Diamond - you must not travel outside the US much. Salads are always available on breakfast buffets in other parts of the world. I like to have some fresh veggies with my meat-cheese-bread, personally. Also, what if your body clock thinks it's 4 p.m.? Then you might want to eat a salad and have a glass of wine. This insistence that there's only one way to do anything and an inability to imagine anything else is so annoying.
When I flew out of Helsinki Airport a couple of years ago I didn't think that it lived up to the hype about how good it was. Admittedly I wasn't flying Finnair, so I assume I left from a different terminal to you, but where I flew out of I found the terminal small, lacking in enough seating in the gate area for the number passengers and very few retail outlets to buy anything.
My comments were more rhetorical than anything else. I fly out of the United States all the time. I've never seen anyone outside of Asians, in Asia, eat a salad for breakfast. I spend a lot of time in the Nordic countries and have never seen anyone drink at 5:30 a.m., unless still out partying at mid-summer.
I picked up 2 round trip biz tickets to Europe during that BA/AARP fare sale last October and booked the Finn Air Helsinki-JFK flight to come home. This article came out just in time. 🙂
For the love of everything aviation - it's Finnair, not Finn Air.
Simple really - look at their planes to check.
Looks like an Ikea showroom...and, while cozy if sparse, it looks like it would be really cramped if more than just a few people.
The Helsinki airport is my favorite airport in the world. I used to go through it every year when flying in to St. Petersburg. To get the best experience you need to head into the Schengen zone (terminal 1) as that is where most of the shopping and eating is located. I don't know how that works if you need a visa but with my Canadian passport I used to go through three or four times a visit. (I was young and very bored on long layovers.) The best thing about it is the Moomin store. It is absolutely adorable.
Talk about short connections..35 mins for jfk hel-> svo.... weird question but I bought a separate ticket svo-tlv ..do you think at check in they will attach the pnrs'? If not will I need to get a transit visa or anything like that for svo?