Conosco e ho sperimentato più volte che Finnair non è un buon operatore di volo con prezzi elevati e ritardi costanti. Ma ho appena scoperto che la loro politica dei prezzi non è solo troppo cara, ma quasi più vicina alla truffa. Il volo da Oulu a Helsinki il 5 febbraio alle 18:00 costa ~300 EUR solo andata, e lo stesso giorno il volo con lo stesso aereo e alla stessa ora esatta da Oulu a Tallinn via Helsinki costa ~100 EUR solo andata. Che diavolo? E’ ridicolo.
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di Rope-Alarming
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does anything stop you purchasing that tallin flight and leaving at helsinki?
I don’t think this is just a Finnair thing
yeah, well helsinki is a hub for many other depatures. At a time like this when its the busiest tourist season alot of people are going thru helsinki to fly back home. Sure you can just fly to tallin and take a boat to helsinki and save money. Thats just the way it is
One thing that plays into this. International flights are tax free for airlines, domestic ones can be taxed by the state. I am not sure if Finland taxes domestic flights at the moment, but looks surely like it.
Airline pricing is not based on cost but on how attractive it is to a consumer. The 2nd flight is flagged as less attractive so its cheaper.
Some airlines won’t let you board the connection if you havent been on first flight though
Yes, it’s ridiculous how cheap the trip to Tallinn is considering the co2 emissions of flying.
This happens in all airline hubs, and it’s because flights are priced by the overall route rather than segment-by-segment. If Finnair is the only or fastest operator for Oulu-Helsinki then they can charge a premium, whereas if they are just one of many airlines with a one-stop itinerary to Tallinn then they have to compete on price.
No competition on the route, so Finnair can hike up the prices as high as they want. The corporate clients will pay.
If you want to go from Oulu to Helsinki you can just buy the cheaper one from Oulu to Tallinn and just don’t go to the second flight. The only problem is thay you cannot have any cheked in luggage since those will go to Tallinn.
This is unfotunately usual way of pricing the flights. The reason why this sucks is that the flights are going to be waiting ar Helsinki for yhe passangers that are not going to come.
All airlines do this, there are even websites where you can search flights like this and get a cheaper flight to your destination by skipping the last leg. It’s called leg skipping. But you shouldn’t have your returning flight booked at the same time, because they won’t let you in if you have skipped a leg. Also I don’t know if airlines will ban you if you do it many times.
It’s weird, but apparently profitable for them. I think it’s fair play to leg skip, if they can overbook in hopes someone will cancel, then we can “underbook” without telling them.
Its the VAT. Helsinki airport has higher VAT than TLL.
Check flights to IST with Turkish airlines. Its more expensive to purchase a flight direct to IST than purchasing a flight to HEL-IST-SZG
I used to work at an airline (not Finnair) back in the 90s. Occasionally we got pricing like this because the pricing was based on the demand for the destination city. So for example, a flight from New York City to Chicago could cost more than a flight from New York City to San Francisco with a connection in Chicago because there was more demand for Chicago at that time.
In theory, you could book the flight to the farther destination and “miss”your connection as long as it’s one way and you don’t have any checked luggage. Just don’t let the airline know in advance that you plan to do that.