Qantas to fly Finnair’s amazing new business class
There’s quite a surprise in store for Qantas travellers headed to Singapore and Bangkok…
By David Flynn, May 19 2023
Passengers setting foot on Qantas flights from Sydney to Singapore from late October 2023, and between Sydney and Bangkok from late March 2024, will be forgiven for briefly wondering if they’ve accidentally boarded the wrong plane.
That’s because the Airbus A330 jet parked at the gate and carrying that QF flight number will actually belong to Finnair, and be staffed by Finnair pilots and cabin crew wearing the uniform of the Helsinki-based airline.
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With international flights soaring but facing a shortfall of aircraft, Qantas confirmed today it would add a pair of Finnair A330s to its fleet for the next six years in order to free up its own aircraft and crew to boost flying elsewhere.
Under a leasing arrangement between the two Oneworld partners, the two Finnair A330s “will operate selected Qantas flights between Sydney and Singapore from late October, and all flights between Sydney and Bangkok from late March 2024.”
While the Sydney-Singapore and Sydney-Bangkok Finnair A330 flights will be operated by Finnair pilots and cabin crew, passengers will continue to see Qantas’ inflight catering (no reindeer burgers), amenities (no Marimekko throws and pillows) and inflight entertainment.
But these Qantas Finnair A330s will offer a real treat to business class passengers: the Australian debut of Finnair’s radical but highly-praised ‘AirLounge’ seat, which is more like an over-sized cocooning sofa.
Finnair's latest business class seat is more like a lounge.
This is Finnair’s very latest business class, and unlike conventional seats it doesn’t recline – instead, the entirety of the seat is a single space which the passenger is invited to treat like a sofa in the sky – and, in the airline’s words, it’s “an exclusive space that you can make your own.”
Finnair's latest business class seat is more like a lounge.
Wrapped in a fixed contoured shell, with a high cocoon-like surround for privacy, it’s a cosy crib where you can feel free to sit or sprawl, rest your feet on the ottoman or swing up the legrest and footrest sections (which the airline calls ‘infill panes’) to create a fully-flat bed dressed by a mattress and duvet.
Finnair's latest business class seat is more like a lounge.
This is a crucial take-away: while the seat doesn’t recline, it still offers a lie-flat bed where your feet tuck into a recess beneath the shelf of the seat in front of you.
“We wanted to rethink business class and create more of a residential environment, emulating the comfort you would expect at home,” explains David Kondo, the mastermind behind the seat and leader of Finnair’s Customer Experience team.
“By doing away with complicated seat mechanisms and using 3D curved shells, we’re able to provide a larger flexible living space. This allows you to move more freely and take up different positions that traditional aircraft seats do not allow.”
Finnair's latest business class seat is more like a lounge.
Qantas has confirmed the leased Finnair A330s will sport this radical new business class, with the configuration also now showing on a seating chart issued by the airline.
The leased Finnair A330s will also include Finnair's latest premium economy seat, in its own dedicated cabin of 21 seats between business and economy.
With up to a 38” pitch and an 8” recline the premium economy seats feature memory foam cushions, a single-piece ‘waterfall’ legrest, AC and USB-A power ports for every passenger, a 13” video screen paired with a noise cancelling headset, plus within-reach stowage for laptops and small personal items.
Finnair's latest premium economy seat.
While the Finnair A330s also offer inflight WiFi, it’s not known if this will be activated and available to passengers on the Singapore and Bangkok routes.
So which Qantas flights will feature these Finnair A330s? It will be easier to spot them, because Qantas is assigning the Finnair A330 flights their own special QF flight numbers:
- starting October 29 2023, watch for QF291 on Sydney-Singapore and QF292 on Singapore-Sydney; these won’t flying every day, as some days will see the conventional QF81/QF82 flights on Qantas’ own A330s
- from March 31 2024, Qantas’ daily Sydney-Bangkok service will be handed over exclusively to the Finnair A330s, under flight numbers QF295/QF296.
There will also be no change to earning Qantas Points and status credits on these flights, or your ability to book points-based reward seats or use points for upgrades to premium economy or business class.
Although these A330s will be operated by Finnair crew through to late 2025, Qantas pilots and cabin crew will take over for as many as an additional three years through to late 2028.
07 Apr 2021
Total posts 54
Qantas sure do like a past it's best rickety A330
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
25 Feb 2017
Total posts 14
This sentence doesn't even make sense.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
06 Oct 2016
Total posts 160
They have some maintenance capacity for A330's so it make sense rather than an A350 (even if they were available)
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
14 Oct 2012
Total posts 36
Qantas wonders why passengers with lifetime status are moving to other airlines. Here's a good example with a further downgrade of Qantas service because of poor management of their fleet coupled with Thai & Singapore flying multiple times a day to Asia.
27 Sep 2011
Total posts 37
How exactly do you figure this is a downgrade? Finnair is a terrific airline, their service is excellent, the new seats look fantastic and I for one can't wait to try it.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
14 Oct 2012
Total posts 36
As a regular traveller on this route I will be pleasantly surprised if they actually get these newer planes with this configuration which wasnt detailed when the article was first published (hence my comment on a downgrade). It was detailed as the old configuration.
11 Sep 2015
Total posts 214
It's pretty clear this is the config Qantas will get, the seating charts all show it.
QFF
12 Apr 2013
Total posts 1469
Have not experienced their new seats, but fully agree with the rest - Finnair is indeed a great company and I wish for many years that Qantas befriended with Finnair so such relationship will be more like partnership rather than master-slave relationship like with Emirathes. May be this is the beginning, who knows?
08 Feb 2018
Total posts 142
That’s not the point I think. People are annoyed with the poor management of Qantas leading to them not being able to operate their own flights and providing a poor product in comparison. This arrangement highlights how bad Qantas has become
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
07 Mar 2018
Total posts 5
This is definitely not a downgrade. This business class seat arrangement is excellent. Finnair is a great airline with very good service, easily equal to and probably better than Qantas..
QF
11 Jul 2014
Total posts 927
I would like to say that is weird and strange but what is actually weird and strange these days.......
25 Feb 2015
Total posts 53
Sigh. Legacy of AJ creating a good business and lacklustre airline.
Can only imagine these will be the oldest Finnair aircraft available. And what a weird experience to have half Finnair and half Qantas hard & soft product.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
25 Oct 2019
Total posts 18
The average age of Qantas’ A330s are 16.5 years and Finnair’s are 12 years. So your point doesn’t really work
25 Feb 2015
Total posts 53
Yep sorry I should have specified that I meant an old product rather than old aircraft (at the time the article didn't yet include detail about that).
Great to learn that in fact it will be the new Finnair cabin interior, which in my opinion will take the hard product above that of Qantas on its A330s.
QF
11 Jul 2014
Total posts 927
Next we will see some Qatar A350's flying for Virgin to Japan and City of Angels.
Remember who's idea that is, by the way Ladies and Gentlemen.........
Virgin Australia - Velocity Rewards
24 Jan 2018
Total posts 637
🤣😅😂😆 - hope you're right.
QF
11 Jul 2014
Total posts 927
I was right about the Qatar - Virgin tie up back in 2018 - 2019.
So hopefully my foresight is on another winner.
03 Aug 2020
Total posts 21
Of course there is nothing positive to come out of this except additional capacity, an aircraft with what looks like a pretty decent business and premium economy class, a probable reduction in fares and a choice … nothing positive at all.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
09 Feb 2015
Total posts 368
Still no aircraft available for Brisbane-Hong Kong.
23 Apr 2015
Total posts 23
Pretty sensible way of adding capacity quickly and with a quality airline. BA have had similar arrangements with Finnair for a while now and having travelled on a few routes (like Nuremburg to LHR) it’s been a pleasant experience!
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
05 Oct 2016
Total posts 85
Nothing highlights more than this, the complete lack of forethought in fleet planning, of AJ. What a pathetic legacy. It basically in a nutshell shows QF is 5-6 years behind. What a joke.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
08 Mar 2022
Total posts 13
Looking forward to premium economy on the A330 SYD- BKK and early day SIN runs. Nice ROI in requesting a points upgrade for day flights from economy. In any case, also provides more upgrade opps from economy with 49 seats across PE and J.
Although how QF will treat the SIN frequency premium economy seats if theres switching with QF metal during the week is TBC.
20 Nov 2015
Total posts 435
I think QF will be surprised by the demand for premium economy on these Finnair flights. Premium economy makes a lot of sense for Sydney-Asia, well anywhere on Australia's east coast to Asia, not just for daytime but especially those overnight red-eye returns. Maybe they will decide to put premium economy into whatever replaces the A330s.
12 Dec 2012
Total posts 1024
Yep, the QF A330s need premium economy. Whenever I've had a short trip to Japan (instead of being part of my yearly J round the world trip), I've booked with JL or CX for the premium economy seats instead of QF if I wasn't able to get a premium economy seat on the 747. Now that the 747s are gone and QF are only using 330s to Asia, any long haul trip will be booked with another airline because QF don't have premium economy on the 330s.
24 Aug 2011
Total posts 1200
Not sure that a deep 8" recline in Premium Economy is a great thing when pitch is only 38". This leads to the same crush for the passenger behind that QF already has on its 787s and A380s.
05 Mar 2015
Total posts 398
This is amazing, so you could basically fly from Sydney to Singapore to Helsinki in Finnair business class LOL
11 Sep 2015
Total posts 214
Don't understand the downvotes for this comment, what QFP1 said is 100% correct, and why would anybody NOT want to fly a great business class like this all the way to Europe?
07 May 2021
Total posts 1
Maybe the 'downvotes' aren't in relation to the product on offer, but more to do with the sad demise of the Qantas brand. Joyce has overseen a huge decline in not only the Qantas product but also the brand. The need for this initiative is due to poor planning and is the result of massive cost cutting to the detriment of what Qantas can now offer its customers.
27 Oct 2012
Total posts 8
According to AY timetible, you will be able fly SYD-SIN-HEL-LHR in the same A330/350 business class :) Finnair use widebodies on the HEL-LHR route, too.
Etihad - Etihad Guest
21 Jul 2019
Total posts 156
Its a treat to fly an exotic carrier so far from its home base. But my thoughts always return to how and why QANTAS found itself in such an awkward situation in the first place, that it HAD to look so far away to make up aircraft shortfalls. Gloss it over as much as you like, but this leasing arrangement signals a QANTAS management failure, not an innovative triumph of thinking or airline co-operation. It's a fail.
31 Mar 2014
Total posts 376
They have sent two A330's for conversion to freighters. Sounds like that might be the primary cause of this.
07 Oct 2012
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Honestly, from a passenger perspective, why does it matter? Not every decision needs to bring out every armchair CEO. There will be a very good product flying between Sydney and Bangkok, and a bunch of other frequency improvements. This is a good thing.
12 Apr 2020
Total posts 4
It’s fantastic for the customer, a real win-win. Sounds like pilot union rhetorical to me…
08 Feb 2018
Total posts 142
This is fantastic. Now I can fly Qantas without having to fly Qantas.
20 Nov 2015
Total posts 435
Totally unexpected as however you might criticize Qantas and I'm sure many people will, this is a smart move. Leasing is normal in the industry of course but this makes sense all around for Qantas, Finnair has been suffering financially due to closures of Russian airspace so no doubt they welcome the money and have the spare aircraft and crew, and for once passengers don't get shafted, they will actually get a better business class product than the Qantas A330s, plus you also get premium economy too!
20 Oct 2015
Total posts 232
This is an incredible seat, not quite as comfortable for sleeping compared to a normal seat but decent enough and sure is much better for any time you spend not sleeping, as long as you have a few pillows to wedge behind your back and settle into. I would even say it's the best non-doored business class in the sky. If not 'the' best non-doored, then definitely up there with the best.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
03 Jan 2013
Total posts 53
I’ve flown on Finnair several times over the last 15 years, through various business products on A330, A340 and A350s. It’s an excellent product, refreshingly Scandinavian - simple, yet elegant.
It’s always puzzled me why Qantas hasn’t made more of its relationship with this Oneworld partner as flying through Helsinki is seamless and quite literally the fastest route to Europe - Finnair has an impressively large European network.
Adding more capacity on two under-served routes can only be positive. Qantas has clearly differentiated which flights will be affected so if you want to avoid the Finnair product, you can - as with many things in life, it’s your choice.
Wet-leasing in airlines in nothing new. Many airlines around the world were caught out as a result of COVID with predictions of the rapid demise of A380s and 777s that are now hurriedly being returned to service. Many airlines didn’t survive or were bailed out by governments. The age of an aircraft is irrelevant provided it’s well maintained and the inflight experience is good.
Qantas has significantly expanded both domestic and international options - the travelling public is the winner as more and more choice is being added. I see this as an excellent move by Qantas.
28 Sep 2022
Total posts 11
It's not the fastest route now that EU is preventing AY from flying through RU airspace.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
16 Jan 2018
Total posts 48
Totallly agree. I have been a big fan of Finnair. I have flown their new J seat a few times and it is an EXCELLENT product - so much better than traditional button recline/sleeper configuration that most airlines have been stuck with for decades. So spacious, easy to operate and less hassle trying to find a comfortable position.
And yeah, nothing new with wet-leasing. Finnair itself has been wet-leasing Iberia on its HEL-MAD route for a while.
Just a tiny point of dispute: I have doubts if Finland can be called a Scandinavian country - it is definitely Nordic though. AFAIK.
21 Aug 2019
Total posts 68
Another Kangaroo route option via Helsinki now. Brilliant.
11 Sep 2015
Total posts 214
Is this the Kangaroo Route or the Reindeer Route? LOL
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
18 Mar 2016
Total posts 19
Will this affect points and SC earning? #lovefinnair
27 Sep 2011
Total posts 37
Presumably if these are being run as Qantas flights, they'll earn per Qantas earn tables.
20 Nov 2015
Total posts 435
No change to earnings, as the article explains. It's being operated as if it's a Qantas flight.
25 Feb 2022
Total posts 13
So what is economy - standing... the most ridiculous use of the term Business Class for seat I have ever seen or heard of.
11 Sep 2015
Total posts 214
Have you tried this Finnair business class yet, or read any review of it? Clearly not. But go on, keep making uninformed statements which shows you don't know anything.
27 Sep 2011
Total posts 37
Shorter Explore88: I’ve got terrible reading comprehension so I didn’t notice the part of the article where they talked about how the seat turns into a lie flat bed with a mattress and duvet, so now I’m assuming it doesn’t and ranting about a seat I haven’t experienced 🤣
25 Feb 2015
Total posts 53
Okay I take back my point re old aircraft. It still seems like a weird move but in the interest of increasing capacity at least they’re putting (someone else’s) quality product into the sky!
Velocity
19 Jun 2013
Total posts 59
PY to BKK!!! At last !!! Wahooo!!!! Now with a bit of luck, it might prompt TG to do PY, or at least sell some biz seats as PY, like they used to do on some. Scandi flights.
Etihad - Etihad Guest
19 Jun 2019
Total posts 18
Why are all the comments in this so negative? I would say the Finn Air product will probably be better than Qantas in all cabins. Also lets us use points to fly a product no one would normally fly. Qantas can then use the other aircraft for other routes. We would blame foresight but the reality is Boeing and Airbus have a huge backlog of orders. They could have gone to High Fly and done a Air NZ now that is something to complain about!
11 Sep 2015
Total posts 214
I agree, the negative comments are just the usual lazy reflexive anti-Alan Joyce nonsense, some people can't take a step back from that and simply appreciate things for what they are, which in this case is a standard industry move which works out really well for passengers as well as for Qantas and Finnair. But no, some people just HAVE to have a whinge about Qantas management etc.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
26 Nov 2012
Total posts 103
I agree with you about the needless negative comments. I do prefer the QF one but TBH the Finnair seat is great too. People don’t like change.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
16 Jan 2018
Total posts 48
Agree with the sentiment here. I thik many people just judge prematurely the lack of 'recline' and call it a terrible product. It is the opposite. The new Finnair business class is so much better than traditional business recliner. The dark blue cabin design and mood is far more elegant and calming than existing Qantas one.
Too bad we will be seeing Qantas inflight entertainment system - the Finnair IFE is so much nicer it even won a rather prestigious award, if I remember correctly.
29 Feb 2016
Total posts 28
Wet leasing isnt new for Qantas - back in the 80's they leased at least one 747 from Tower Air (USA) and operated it to/from LAX. Bit of a shock getting on, not recognising the layout or colour scheme and not understanding the crew!
Qantas
19 Apr 2012
Total posts 1432
Wet leasing is fairly common and qantas have done it before. With a five year lead time on new aircraft and Finnair having surplus aircraft then it makes perfect business sense while qantas waits for new aircraft to arrive over the next few years. Hardly a fail.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
18 Feb 2014
Total posts 20
Very old planes, with seats maybe on for 1 or 2 hour flights, but not 9 hour flights
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
29 May 2020
Total posts 31
Are you sure it will be the new seats?
The Finnair website shows a J/F config on some A330s that have a similar J product to what QF has on the 330. I reckon those old config planes are the ones coming to QF.
20 Nov 2015
Total posts 435
Qantas says it will be the new seats and according to reports all Finnair's A330s have actually been upgraded to this new seat.
27 Oct 2012
Total posts 8
Finnair's entire widebody fleet will get the new config by the end of this year
12 Apr 2020
Total posts 4
7 of the 8 Finnair A330 aircraft are reconfigured today. The aircraft will be dedicated to Qantas, the A330’s don’t rotate through Helsinki from Asia. Customers will only experience the new Business and Premium product!
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
06 Oct 2016
Total posts 160
I've done Finnar a couple of times, code sharing with CX vie HGK or QF through SIN, I would see this as an upgrade. as an airport HEL only takes 15 to transfer when coming from the front and they time the morning connecting departures perfectly
AY are having a few issues at the moment because of Russian airspace impacting their biggest market, Japan
19 Jan 2017
Total posts 8
Just flew SIN-HEL-SIN in the new A350 business class product in the last month on long flights that avoid Russian airspace (over 12 hours each way). The seat is great, got loads of deep sleep, and really nice. This is not an inferior product by any means. They use Asian based cabin crews for these flights. BTW, Finnair HEL-MAD in Euro Business was outsourced to Iberia, and again a superb flight where they plied us with loads and loads of drinks. We only had Helsinki based cabin crew on 1 of 4 Finnair flights. The whole world is wet leasing and outsourcing. Get used to it.
11 Sep 2015
Total posts 214
This is a superb business class. If you haven't flown it you might think that Finnair used Hobbit-sized models in the PR photos but I've flown this on the A350 and it's just that the seats themselves are massive! Great for sitting, great for sleeping, actually really good for a redeye flight because you don't have the usual issue with not being allowing to recline the seat for taxi takeoff and landing, as soon as you board the plane you can lie down, put on your seatbelt and go to sleep. You are the one who does the reclining, not the seat!
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
09 Jan 2017
Total posts 27
Wonder whether these Finnair A330s will be redone in Qantas livery?
11 Sep 2015
Total posts 214
I can't see why that would make sense, it would cost a lot to repaint them to QF livery and then repaint them back to Finnair livery, plus as soon as you step inside it's all Finnair branding and colours.
24 Aug 2011
Total posts 1200
Not during the wet-lease period as the aircraft will rotate back to Helsinki as Finnair will maintain responsibility for heavy maintenance so chances are you'll see different planes operating the Qantas routes every month or 2.
After 2 years, when the dry lease period commences, the rotation will cease and Qantas will assume responsibility for maintenance and then you'd expect the 2 planes will be painted in a Qantas livery though they'll keep the Finnair interiors.
05 Apr 2017
Total posts 18
Risky move for QF. Leasing in an inferior product to your own product highlights your superiority. Leasing in a much better product highlights your shortfalls.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
19 Jul 2020
Total posts 8
I've flown the AY business cocoon 6 times this year, and it is a ripping product. AY via (CX) HKG and HEL to India and Europe has been longer but far more enjoyable, and much cheaper, than the one stop... if you have the time.
08 Feb 2018
Total posts 142
Pretty soon Qantas won’t need any employees at all!!
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
13 Jan 2018
Total posts 40
Finally and yippee.
Premium Economy to Bangkok. The choice of 2 4 2 economy or business at $6,000 return. Can't wait for a PY product and the AY one is great. I wonder if they will serve that delicious blueberry juice?
Velocity
19 Jun 2013
Total posts 59
2-4-2 is one of the best things about the A330. Better that than a narrow 3-3-3 in a Screamliner.
27 Oct 2012
Total posts 8
Finnair being creative again, they also have a wet lease agreement with Qatar, Finnair's A330s feed Doha from Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
14 Sep 2018
Total posts 16
I have just received notification the my flights QF81 & QF82 are now QF291 and QF292. I am happy to be on the Finnair aircraft, but these flights were booked during the Qantas double status offer and flights had to be on Qantas aircraft.
I have been assured by the FF Call centre that I will still be entitled to the double status credits.
Let’s hope so!
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
18 Mar 2016
Total posts 19
FANTASTIC - an amazing experience
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
28 Nov 2018
Total posts 5
I've flown Finnair three times in the last two years through to London, each time connecting in Singapore via QF ex Sydney. It's terrific! Biz seats super comfortable like a daybed, each with two pillows, amenities (including proper cabin slippers and the most comfortable biz hand-out sleeping eye covers I've experienced - not small and tight like on QF), phone charges by just resting it on the side table, food delicious (and good size portions). Interior design is so cool. Returning over Easter I again changed to the Qantas A380 in Singapore departing on a 7:30pm flight to Sydney, only to be advised it was classified as a supper flight and offered a little dish of noodles, small steak sandwiches or the like. This wasn't a late night departure or a short flight... The clearly embarrassed attendant actually offered to bring me an economy meal "as they were more substantial due to customers generally staying awake most of the flight". Then the QF business cold breakfast with awful coffee cannot compare to the second Finnair meal served prior to arrival into Helsinki. Love 'em!
08 Feb 2018
Total posts 142
Article says you’ll still get Qantas catering so this won’t solve that problem!
19 Aug 2020
Total posts 17
Amazing. This has to be one of the most - almost instantaneous - responses (69) I've seen to any article published by ET.
Simply amazing
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
16 Jan 2018
Total posts 48
I would like to think that this is a reflection of how fed up Australian customers are of inferior products offered by Qantas. We have not seen anything innovative coming out of Qantas for years and years.
21 Apr 2017
Total posts 42
It is perfectly legitimate for FFs to post criticism of QF’s international fleet, product and network. The fact is that QF has chosen to prioritise other things for a very long time now, including shareholder returns and executive salaries. This is fine but will continue to lead FFs to choose better options. Thankfully these continue to improve post-Covid with more airlines investing in their product and returning to Aus.
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
30 Nov 2011
Total posts 19
So QF have scrapped 2 a380s and reduced pax capable a330s by 2 as well. Does anyone know why, particularly with the huge rebound in demand for travel we have seen? I suppose there is no re-activating the a380s if they have gone into this agreement with Finnair. Makes me think of the article about S&P cutting Qantas' rating to junk. Are they simply trying to bide their time until the a350s for Sunrise arive?
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer
03 Jan 2013
Total posts 53
These flights are in addition to existing flights.
New planes are coming but QF does not have the manpower to run these flights, but will in time take over the Finnair aircraft with QF crew.
08 Feb 2018
Total posts 142
because they have no idea....I was thinking "what the" when they converted those A330's to freighters when clearly they are need for pax. How much is leasing these two to replace them going to cost and further increase QF airfares leading to people choosing alternatives. I really don't understand this business model!
Qantas - Qantas Frequent Flyer P1
23 Aug 2014
Total posts 119
Finnair have a solid J product here but there is a metal anchoring rod that is in the footwell that may result in a less comfortable sleep experience for non side sleepers - be careful which seat you choose
Definitely not as great in terms of footwell design and room as the QF J seat if this is important to you
29 Jan 2012
Total posts 159
Really people, just look at it as a QF/EK code share arrangement. EK metal with a QF flight number is exactly the same situation. Finnair is just replacing Emirates.
Simple!
25 Feb 2015
Total posts 53
Yeah good way of thinking of it. Although I'd say a touch different when you find yourself on a Finnair aircraft inside & out, with Finnair cabin crew, but speaking a (Qantas?) script, and the aircraft is decked out with Qantas blankets & pillows, Qantas magazines, the Qantas IFE, and Qantas meals.
24 Oct 2010
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