Two odd routes to oneworld status – pay £190 per month or match via airberlin or Lufthansa

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• David says:

  19 Sep19 September 06:55

  OT but related to Finnair – I’m off to HKG with Finnair on 4xA350 sectors in J. BA Silver so free seat selection – any top tips for the best seats? Any advice appreciated!

  • C77 says:

    19 Sep19 September 08:15

    Free seat selection for all Finnair J passengers. Being minimum of silver is just a BA thing . Window seats are my preference with the direct aisle access.

  • Will says:

    19 Sep19 September 08:28

    Personally I’d take window in either 11 or 12. I prefer the smaller part of the business cabin.

    Flew to shanghai earlier this year on it and tried both front cabin and rear, just my preference but definitely window if travelling alone.

• BillB says:

  19 Sep19 September 07:19

  Check on seatguru.com – useful commentary on where/where not to sit

  • David says:

    19 Sep19 September 07:31

    Hi – yes I’m aware of seatguru, but there’s limited information. Would like to hear from people who’ve flown it!

    • John says:

      19 Sep19 September 08:24

      To HKG I’d just go as far forward as possible but not row 1.

    • Peter K says:

      19 Sep19 September 10:54

      I found seatguru next to useless. There is so little info that it was barely better than no info.

• ankomonkey says:

  19 Sep19 September 08:39

  Finnair Silver gives lounge access when flying on AY metal (or did).

• Ed says:

  19 Sep19 September 08:54

  Interestingly, you can purchase S7 gold for a single month (minimum term). That would give you the flexibility of being BA silver as and when needed which could be useful if you don’t fly often.

• Phil says:

  19 Sep19 September 10:22

  OT- a couple of HILTON HONOURS questions. I recently qualified for the free night with Hilton Honours Barclaycard. I’m assuming this gets you the cheapest room at any given hotel(?).

  Secondly, is it possible to use points to add breakfast to the booking?

  • Rob says:

    19 Sep19 September 10:41

    It gets you a ‘Standard Room Redemption’ – one must be available in order to use the voucher. Usually cheapest room category only. Can’t use points for breakfast.

    • Genghis says:

      19 Sep19 September 10:43

      But Hilton Gold gets you breakfast. Easily obtainable through Amex Plat / £10k spend in calendar year on the Hilton Visa card.

• Ron says:

  19 Sep19 September 10:45

  Do I need to add the S7 FF number to the booking in order to enjoy the benefits (priority baggage and lounge)? We (2 adult+ 1child) are flying to Oz with CX in Y next month, so it may work out better with lounge access for the 4 segments, but I want the miles credit to our BA account.

  Also, we have bookings for next year to SFO in CW, do i need to be OW sapphire when I reserve seats and at the time we fly? Or just when I reserve seats?

  • Scallder says:

    19 Sep19 September 17:12

    You can normally have the number in the booking to get busienss class check in, lounge entry etc, but then have the number changed in the lounge – however doing this 4 times, for 3 people might be a bit of a hassle (or might annoy the people at the various lounges).

    You can book seats whenever you have the status – so if you bought it and put your S7 FF into the booking, you could reserve seats for free and then once completed, change it back to your BA number.

  • Nick says:

    19 Sep19 September 19:05

    You can choose seats if you’re silver when reserving, but there’s a risk you might lose them again if they recalculate seating for any reason after you’ve dropped down (e.g. aircraft change). In that case you wouldn’t have any claim to get them back.

• Nicholas Shaw says:

  19 Sep19 September 10:52

  £190 for BA silver status would appeal, however under T&C S7 say that “the service “Gold Status Purchase” is available for members, who have miles on their account accrued for at least one S7 Airlines flight made from the moment of registration in the Programme.”

  So you’d have to fly with them first.

  • Ron says:

    19 Sep19 September 11:26

    Oh, that’s annoying!

  • Rick S says:

    19 Sep19 September 21:33

    I couldn’t see it in the T&Cs, but in the Russian summary version it says you need to take a flight with S7 (which i presume would literally have to be with S7, rather than a code share) before you can benefit from this prepaid status…. but the English version doesn’t say that.. Maybe there’s enough ambiguity there to not have to fly with S7…?
    https://www.s7.ru/home/s7-priority/ffp-additional-services.dot#predoplachennyy-status

• Concerto says:

  19 Sep19 September 10:59

  Can you really purchase this S7 thing if you haven’t had a reasonable amount of activity on the account?

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