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Avios partner Juneyao Airlines adds Manchester flights

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When Finnair adopted Avios on Monday, it brought two new airlines into the Avios-earning fold. One is Scandinavian regional carrier Braathens, and the other is Chinese carrier Juneyao Airlines.

When you fly with Juneyao Airlines, you can now earn Avios in a Finnair Plus account. From May/June 2024 it will be possible to move them across from Finnair to a British Airways Executive Club account.

Juneyao Airlines adds Manchester

The earn rates are:

  • Economy (classes Y, B, M, U, H, Q, V, W, S, T, Z, K, E) – 100% of miles flown
  • Business (classes J, C, D, A, R) – 200% of miles flown

You can see more details on this page of the Finnair site.

The reason I mention this today is that Juneyao Airlines has just announced flights to Manchester from its base in Shanghai.

There will be three flights per week, launching on 3rd July.

Flights will operate on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. It’s a sensible 10.40am departure from Manchester, although that means a less sensible 5.50am arrival into Shanghai! The return is entirely overnight, leaving Shanghai at 1.55am and landing in Manchester at 7.30am.

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Comments (33)

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  • Harry T says:
    18 Mar18 March 06:04

    Falling out of my seat at the thought of LHR finishing a project on time or maybe even a midge early!

  • Chris W says:
    18 Mar18 March 07:22

    The First Wing never fully closed – only the First Security did.

  • Kowalski says:
    18 Mar18 March 07:30

    Does this mean business class check in will also move back to that end of the terminal or is it staying at the opposite end?

  • Chrisasaurus says:
    18 Mar18 March 07:35

    I thought the temporary arrangement was well managed too.

    I wonder whether there was any uptick in spend from PAX forced along that detour who would ordinarily head straight into the lounge and leave at the last minute to board?

    If they’re scanning enough BPs then they’d have that data potentially (whether they choose to look for it of course is another matter)

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:
      18 Mar18 March 19:23

      The detour might have been forced but spending any money isn’t!

  • Bernard says:
    18 Mar18 March 08:46

    The diva Laming said this in their much ado about nothing the other week.
    Seems it got missed.

  • Mark says:
    18 Mar18 March 09:16

    Do we know whether the liquid rule will be removed immediately at the new First security, or will we have to wait for the policy to be changed across LHR?

    • Rob says:
      18 Mar18 March 09:20

      That’s a good question. I THINK there is a rule saying that if you have mixed lanes (old and new machines) in the same channel then the old rules must apply. However, as this is fully separated, I don’t see the logic of not swapping over.

      • TGLoyalty says:
        18 Mar18 March 11:40

        Went through luton last year and they had boarded off an area for “testing” the new scanners and all rules were relaxed.

        Therefore can’t see why first wing security wouldn’t be operated under the new rules. The annoying thing for me is unless you know the rules at the airport you’ll be returning from are relaxed it’s just quicker rather than allowing you to actually take more liquids.

        • Mark says:
          18 Mar18 March 12:36

          Let’s hope BA communicates clearly on this when they re-open.

          It depends whether you intend to return with the liquids or consume them while away, of course. For example we always have to buy (random) suntan lotion at our destination whereas I much prefer the brand I buy here, so I can take that with me, use it and not worry about the return liquids policy.

          • TGLoyalty says:
            18 Mar18 March 17:48

            I generally don’t HBO to destinations I’ll use a full size anything tbh

            It ends up just being wasteful ie throwing away personal care items before you leave

            other than that though there is just the pure hassle of emptying bag pockets to go through scanners that can be saved.

    • sigma421 says:
      18 Mar18 March 11:39

      The lesson from T3 fast track seems to be ‘they won’t tell you the old rules are gone but they also won’t enforce them’. Problem is that if someone does try to enforce them, you probably won’t have a leg to stand on.

  • kpworldtravels says:
    18 Mar18 March 09:26

    Keen to try out the new machines at First Security

  • Oonagh Cacioppo says:
    18 Mar18 March 09:53

    Slightly off track here…. Blue exec card…travelling First Class to Singapore in May. May I take companion travelling with us in Premium Econ into Concord as a guest?
    Confusing results in my research so far.

    • Paul says:
      18 Mar18 March 10:18

      Yes, First Class customers can guest 1 person into the CCR

    • TGLoyalty says:
      18 Mar18 March 11:36

      So unless you have status you can’t guest into the club lounges but a guest travelling first can guest into CCR and importantly they can use the first wing too.

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