Until November 20, 2024, you can buy Avios from the Finnair Plus program at a discount of up to 50%.

Here are the points purchase levels and associated discounts:

The promotion works in tiers, where the more points you buy, the higher the percentage discount.

For example, if you buy 75,000 Avios, it will cost you 825 euros (instead of 1,650 euros) or US 872, i.e. 1.16 US cents per Avios (or 1.62 CAD cents per Avios).

This is slightly cheaper than the last Avios points promotion with Qatar Airways Privilege Club, where the cost was 1.97 CAD cents per Avios.

Avios will be credited to your Finnair Plus account 1 to 3 days after purchase.

Buying Avios with Finnair could help you in case you run out of Avios to book an airline reward ticket, or if you’ve exhausted all other options for obtaining Avios via credit cards.

Don’t forget, you can combine your Finnair Plus and British Airways Executive Club Avios by linking your accounts, and transfer them indirectly to Qatar Airways Privilege Club, since this program allows Avios to be transferred from British Airways Executive Club.

In other words, this type of promotion is just one more tool to collect enough Avios for a flight in the coveted QSuite, for example!

As Avios purchases are billed in US dollars, we recommend using a credit card with no conversion charges for foreign currency transactions. Payment methods accepted for points purchases are Visa, Mastercard and American Express.

Here are three cards that save you from paying the 2.5% foreign currency conversion fee:

Before buying Avios, you should take a look at the other options available to you in Canada from:

• American Express Membership Rewards
• RBC Avion Rewards
• Marriott Bonvoy

All these programs are transfer partners with British Airways Executive Club. So you can easily transfer your points to Avios at a 1:1 rate to Finnair Plus.

Here are the best credit card offers from these different programs:

And you can even get them directly with the RBC British Airways Visa Infinite Card!

Is it worth buying Avios with this Finnair promotion? As with any purchase of points and miles, this will depend on your objective, and it’s important to remember that you can use them at both Finnair and British Airways.

You’ll have to decide on the airfares you want to book very soon, as Finnair is based in Finland and has no destinations in Canada. For example, 30,000 Avios are required for a one-way economy flight with Finnair between North America (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, etc.) and Europe.

Find out everything you need to know about the Finnair Plus program in this article, now that this airline has adopted Avios in 2024.

Here are the routes we particularly like with Avios, also known as “sweetspots“:

• With American Airlines in North America
• With Aer Lingus between North America and Dublin
• With Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong
• With Japan Airlines to travel in Japan
• With Qantas in Australia or New Zealand
• With Qatar Airways – read our ultimate guide to Qatar Airways Privilege Club