APRIL 2023 UPDATE: Finnair no longer provides pillows in Economy Class, as stated in a press release: "We provide blankets for our Economy Class customers on long-haul flights, but pillows are no longer available. Many customers already travel with their own travel pillow, and on long-haul flights, the neck rest supports your head." Source: www.finnair.com/en/bluewings/travel-experience/updates-in-services-onboard-finnair-flights-starting-on-19-april-2908062

Babe wake up, new Brutally Honest episode dropped

Flew with Finnair a lot of times particularly in their A350 in Business Class and it was wonderful!

Wow - 9 minute transfer time (which includes passport control) is very impressive. I like watching your trip reports. Would you consider doing a different series of videos on your channel focusing on airport transfers/connecting flights? For example if someone is flying Lufthansa and needs to change plans in FRA or if someone is flying LOT and needs to transfer in WAW, etc I think it’ll be valuable and informative video for those who are unfamiliar with the new airport and it’ll be helpful to many so they know what to expect. Especially if passport control is involved for those leaving EU or for those entering EU but continuing to a different European country. I’ve seen that some airlines sell tickets with only 60 minutes between flights-I always wonder if that’s enough time to go through passport control to make a connection 🤔 Keep up the great work! Your channel is DEFINITELY in top 3 when it comes to airline reviews 👍🏽

I flew with them in February 2023 (Frankfurt to Orlando). While there were a few complications, all in all the flight experience with Finnair was nice. The flight was initially booked with Lufthansa. Also, I got a really good deal on the round trip tickets. I would like to thank you for posting so many ``ECONOMY Class´´ videos. These are the type of flights that most people can afford. Have a great day.

I love Finnair, they're my favourite European airline. I have flown with them to Bangkok and Seoul and was seriously impressed.

11:34. Hey, Yes if the pilots turned on the wing inspection lights, the engines could also be seen during night. But at cruising altitude generally pilots switch off the wing lights. If it's a icing condition then some pilots turn that on as the wing bulb gets hot which results in melting of ice. Hope it helps 😊

Cool to see some Finland again and some love for the airport :D It's my favorite for sure with how quick and easy it is to get around in and I'm totally not biased because I'm Finnish. It took me once about 20 minutes to get through passport control, but it was at a busy time and only one lane was in use for accessible travel and there was some chaos with the passengers ahead of us but they found a solution when waiting wasn't really working.

I LOVE Finnair! The most bizarre thing is that I never flew with them! But they convey a sense of tranquility, security, reliability!

I tell you, your channel should win an award. Love it!

Brutally honest is genuinely my favourite airline review videos out there. The way its presented is just perfect. I also just love how this channel has so many economy reviews👏. There's something enjoyable about watching economy reviews that business doesn't have. Its probably the fact that it's more relatable to real life experience for those of us that cannot afford higher classes

This was so well rehearsed, I really enjoyed!!

16:37 so true 😅thanks for the continuous quality and mostly unsponsored videos david & crew :)

FINNAIR is the airline which I always wanted to try especially their A350's economy class. I'm surprised to learn that only one choice (yes - no) is available as most airlines provide two and some three options. As a Frequent flyers of Asian based carriers, I realised how lucky I am. Beer, wine, whiskey are free even in economy's class.

Brutally Honest reviews sind bei weitem dein bestes Format. Bitte weiter so!

Finnair looks to be a pretty nice airline! I also always love the flight reviews because they're mostly in economy, but the other guys review is in business or first class, which is something most of us can't afford.

Considering that Finnair has to replan their entire business model due to the Russian airspace closure and slow East Asia post-pandemic recovery, I see new cost-cutting measures and I feel for them. Also, I heard they want to focus on India to US traffic and more HEL o&d instead (personally I feel it's a bigger grave they're digging considering how competitive both are). Having said that, I flew this same route (SIN-HEL) same A350 back in 2017. While the flight was average (neither best nor worst, but better than LH A380 in economy), I noticed 2 strange anomalies: 1. Except the Finn pilot, everyone else working onboard were Singaporeans who previously worked for SQ. 2. This flight had the largest amount of third-country nationals taking it of all my flights (Australians going to Europe). *Edit: Also HEL was the easiest European airport I had ever transited in.

Great reviews ! Took the exact same flight 3 months ago ! I was disappointed mainly by the food. Let’s remember that’s a 12 hour flight, I have had more food and more choices on twice as short flights. Beside found the crew to be very cold. However the hard product is excellent

The cost cutting to the food service is pretty ridiculous, especially on a 12hr flight. Another channel did the business class on the same flight and only had 1 full meal plus 1 light meal, yet somehow this was praised lol.

I took the exact same flight in Y class two days before you, on 20.09.2022. I feel AY is borderline budget airline with its onboard offerings, especially catering. Other than that, I think it was an OK experience for me.

Love the brutally honest videos! The best aviation videos out there!

They seriously need to rethink their meal options, only one choice available on my flight it was Vegetarian Lasagne and Quinoa salad only one alcoholic drink and a small cheese sandwich prior to landing. I like the cabin though.

The early check in is available again! Flew out of Changi 2 weeks ago. It was located on the ground floor of the Jewel.

at 11:33 the engines are illuminated either by the engine or wing inspection lights mounted on the inboard side of the fuselage of the aircraft. Not quite sure why they are on at cruising altitude though unless the crew suspected icing. Hope that helps!

One this Iove about this challenge is it's dedication to show around the airport. It is nice for someone who's never been in an airport ever.

As a Finnish, it was very good you made "Brutally Honest" video of Finnair.

Just flew Finnair from here (AGP) via HEL to HND and back NRT via HEL to AGP. To the background, I’m coming from a 3 generations Lufthansa Family and usually I would stick to them and Star Alliance. However, in the post Covid universe I have experienced during the last 12 months such skyrocketing sh** , including but not limited to delays, downgrading, bitchy staff on chat, landbased and up in the air I made it a lifegoal to avoid them forever! Granted, this is a challenge, I’m living in southern Spain, my family is in Germany, my husband is Japanese… avoiding the LH group in Europe means extra cost, but my bad experience affect almost all parts of the grp(LH, Swiss, Eurowings) Now to Finnair: Flight 1: AGP - HEL extremely timely departure, disciplined grp boarding, nice pre ordered eco food. HEL- HND : eco, but we reserved the extra comfort seats, worth the 129 euros, extra 10 cm legroom. Good food. NRT - HEL: I missed reserving the extra comfort seats. We had to fly in the normal wood class. Food was great, legroom was okay for me(1.72), my 1.95m husband didn’t feel that well, but was able to fall asleep. I had to my right a Japanese tourist guide for an elderly group of tourists who had nightmares and made quite some noise, so my 13 hours flying over the North Pole were sleepless. Food was awesome though, it was burger meat with vegetables first and then a very good breakfast. Arriving at HEL at 5.50 am I was in need of sleep and a shower. We went to GLO hotel that offer extremely comfortable and clean day rooms for 79 euros (landside and just to the left after exiting customs) and we could board our connection flight back home to AGP at 17.55.. HEL-AGP : super timely boarding again, and taxi was one minute ahead of projected time. Pre-ordered food again on eco was super tasty (not everyone’s case for sure, deer meat with Brie in a bread with salad) One thing that stroke me was that despite heavy side winds the pilots loved to land each time super soft… I’m amazed. I’ll book my next flight next week again to Japan with Finnair (this time premium economy though, economy is really good at Finnair, but if you travel 36 hours you really want a bit of extra comfort) … so I’m really satisfied with Finnair and will do it again and again @finnair: well done! You impressed a long term star alliance idiot. Just your inflight system: the map system from Panasonic is crashing the IFS frequently and it takes 10 minutes for it to restart. I would avoid offering this system as long as these flaws exist. The Android system with the low memory is simply not able to handle it … some QA needed here 😊… other than that: outstanding airplanes, staff, service, punctuality. ❤ Finnair

I’m a Finnair fan, but the long haul economy service is very basic. I think they could do a bit more!

I love it, the Panasonic EX3 IFE was also on Air Algerie's A330 @Simply Aviation

3:33 this is also true for Copa Airlines, which brought my stuff from my home in Canada all the way to my final destination in Brazil

Amazing video as always David!

Great review here my friend. Singapore is my favourite stopover when travelling to Europe to visit Friend & family., , cheap street food at the Hawker centre’s and overall such a great cosmopolitan Asian city. It’s also great you briefly covered their metro system and how cheap & easy it is to get around the City-State. Finnair is certainly a "different " Airline, certainly and not quite on the same level as to other better known airlines the that fly from Europe to from S.E Asia and vice versa, but worthy of consideration for their price point.

Thank you David for the comprehensive and nice Flightreport, especially with the stunning footage of the approach of HEL Airport. And yes, I'd love to watch a review about Finnairs Preco.😀

I flew Finnair out of London to Manila back in 2015 I think. It was quite a good experience back then.

Excellent review as all of your brutally honest videos. You have done a great effort to improve and l really appreciate that. I watched every single second. Keep it up! :)

9 minutes at HEL? Wow. Here's my typical experience: Fly down from northern Finland, sitting in row 1 because I have a tight connection. But the plane is needed on a non-Schengen flight next, so we dock at the furthest non-Schengen gate we can find. Can't exit from that into Schengen, so they open the back door and throw everyone into a bus - except we don't all fit, and they need to find a second bus. Free ramp tour, woohoo! Dumped at gate 20, upstairs, run back to passport control (under which there's a perfectly good bus gate), run to the gate, same plane I just left. Occasionally throw in a second bus transfer for good measure.

Great video! Thanks! Flying with them in two weeks time from Tokyo to Helsinki.

I hope you should do a trip report from Helsinki to Dallas

Höchst interessant, vielen lieben Dank!

I would love to see more short haul Finnair videos, especially on the a320

Great episode as always!!

Just wanted to add that at Changi Airport's boarding gates, you can technically leave after entering to use the washrooms. You just have to bring all your belongings with you and go through the security checks again. I have done that in the past haha

Ahhhh Singapore Changi… connected through it many times with emirates. Such a nice airport I love Singapore a lot ❤

Beautiful!

The reason why the engines are illuminated is there are lights facing them from the fuselage. Usually there are turned off during cruise but some airlines leave them on.

speaking of jewel, you can now actually check in early there from 12-6pm, apart from finnair's own early check in at the terminal itself starting a few hours before departure. not sure when this was reintroduced though, certainly after september of 2022.

I Have Not Try Out Finnair New Product Yet .Great Work

Hi, Great video, TBH, I love Finnair's livery, the A350 itself seems like a very quiet and comfy aircraft to fly on and Finnair's cabin particularly economy seems like a warm inviting cabin with a calm soothing vibes and the IFE looks great and seems intuitive and easy enough to use, so far so good well done Finnair, for the dinner service I expected more from a full cost carrier with options, one meal option is not enough in my opinion during this age of travel, some universal power outlets would also be nice, that will be my only criticism, for sure Finnair has some great qualities that other airlines could take example on and could adapt.

can I recommend a China airlines London to Taipei, I haven’t seen any reviews about this, or Korean air Long haul or Asiana airlines long haul? If so that would enlighten me so much!

I love this channel because it features Economy the most - meaning I can actually fly the experiences this channel reviews. Not gonna afford business anytime soon,

thank you for this. great.

Ah, finally! Hope you enjoyed your trip!

Booked my trip with Finnair. Can’t wait to try out their entertainment system!

At 11:29 I assume those are the wing inspection lights witch probably also explains why the winglets were also illuminated when you showed the outside

Flying from Western Europe to Asia I highly recommend Finnair, especially the A350, an aircraft, which really makes the difference!! Fresh air all the way, less noise. No head-ache on arrival. Love it. May Finnair´s eco-food be what it is, the cabin is nice, the seat comfy (go for premium economy, which does not cost so much more than normal eco, but adds a lot of benefits). Connecting at Helsinki is easy as 1-2-3 as shown. Avoid terminal changes at big airports like LHR, FRA etc. Can be nerve wrecking to find out, where to go. Additionally it is time-consuming. And often you need to pass a security check again. Annoying. About the crews of AY: can be fun or not. If you know, how to connect to them, and win their hears, they will be very attentive.

Superb Video👍

The exact tripreport I was waiting for

Great video David! Just vacate a member now feels great to be part of your channel. Kudos to you and Felix!!! Hope you can do an Air Canada Brutally Honest review sometime for their Premium Economy or Signature Business class one day

Good review , and Finnair is also a nice airline😊

Probably a unpopular opinion but I only really watch the voiced over video’s and thus only the brutality honest videos. I like the speech in contrast to the text only videos

That looks SOO much better from when I flew them

The meals you received are standard economy class meals on any airline. Universal power outlets are only available in the business class. When you travel economy class you have to charge your phone before boarding the aircraft.

Thanks for overview. Planning to go to Singapore and for my location Vanta is closes and fastest...

Hello there. Very nice trip report. Kudos to being able to cope with a 12-hr. flight in Economy Class. My spouse and I will be flying from Toronto to Croatia this fall (almost 9-hr. flight) and on Air Transat. originally I selected Economy Plus which provides more legroom and wider seats, but since there in none on the A330-200 aircraft, we got bumped up to Club Class which is Air Transat's version of First Class. Have flown it before to Scotland and is quite comfortable, so we are all set. TBH, was not impressed with the food selections available on your Finnair flight. Hopefully thay will improve in 2023. Keep up the good work!

In the documentary of Singapore Airport the engineers struggle to fix the broken art installation with just the broken pierce. :o

NO WAY THATS THE SAME PLANE I LOOKED IN THE SKY FEW DAYS AGO!! CONFIRMED IT VIA FLIGHT RADAR 24!

I recently flew on Finnair's A330 Premium Economy Class, on the "Qatar Airways'" route from ARN to DOH, where the trick is that while booking the economy class via Qatar Airways page, you can actually, without any problem, neither any additional cost, just reserve a seat in the front of the eco section, in the Premium Economy itself - what is interesting about it is the fact of how much it differs from regular Economy, while costing literally the same. I'm about to edit my video from this flight soon, as I find it being an amazing deal that not that much people know about :D

I flew on turkish airlines two times, I wish to go to business class soon but the economy was no problem for us

Security check just before boarding is the safest option. Airports are so big that someone can always pass you something after the check. I always wondered why other airports don't do the same. You can always come in at the last 25 minutes and there wont be any line,

Yes, please test the premium economy!! .

GREAT REVIEW as always! By the way, this is the first time I've seen an illuminated a350 winglet

The engines are lit up from the wing light which is clearly illuminated and visible.

This video makes me want to visit Singapore

Graet review and the comments helpful also. 👍

Transiting HEL all depends upon your origination. Examples: the US and SIN are trusted security systems so you enter directly into the Terminal. Not all originations allow you to not re-clear security. Example: Bangkok. Directed into an arrival corridor and forced through security.

Considering the time needed for transit, HEL is the opposite of CDG. 😄

I’m impressed that there is so much demand to fly directly all the way to Singapore from an average-sized city as Helsinki.

Thanks a lot for your flight review, it was very nice and I doubt Finnair travels to west Africa, such a lovely airline

Can the armrest in premium economy be lowered?

I have seen finnair a320 when I was kittila lapland Finland on my flight home on a tui 737 800

hey thanks for the great reviews! Vietjet has a new international product to Australia with no economy reviews. Be super keen to see that this year :)

Congrats to yet another A350 operator who chooses the Economy 9 across seating on the A350 . AVOID 10 across seating like Air France - where aside from the slimmest of Aisles ...the overall Eco Cabin feeling is truly Claustrophobic to say the least...

I think the wing inspection light was on, that's why the engine appears to be glowing

I flew Helsinki to Bangkok in 2018 on one, expensive flight and you only get one free alcoholic drink and that's with your meal. Qatar, Etihad and Emirates unlimited alcoholic drinks included. Qatar A350 I flew on was a nicer cabin too

As someone who travels 20 minutes with a finnair jet and 8 hours with a A350 every year, I can't wait to see the new cabin :) That's coming from someone with aerophobia!

Pointing out on how early check in lounge wasn’t available early check in has shifted to Jewel where it’s available for finnair, singapore airlines qantas etc maybe at the timing of filming it was still closed

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You should try new seats on a330 which are more comfortable than on a350.

I enjoyed my Finnair flights to/from Singapore, the A350 is so comfy to fly on. HEL is like a breath of fresh air, compared to my home airport AMS. However I do feel the use of foreign crew is very exploitative, and therefore I won't be flying Finnair again soon.

The engines does not glow...flightcrew turned the wing-lights on to see if there is ice on the wings edge or /and on the engines;-) For this reason u can also see that "F" on the winglet - otherwise it would be pitch black out there;-)

You flown on one of my plane models the A350-900 OH-LWE.

Amazing

My guess for the engines looking bright on the camera is that there either isn't an IR filter, so the heat is visible, or maybe there is a light reflecting off them. Happy to be corrected by someone who knows more.

Finnair offers options for different diets free of cost (vegetarian, glutenfree, Kosher, low salt, lactose free, lacto-ovo-veg etc.) You just need to reserve it up to 24 hrs before your departure.

10:00 i think tht salad is young mango not apple

11:30 Maybe they forgot to turn off landing lights on after takeoff checklist? 😮

Superb 💕💕💕

I think you are the only person who likes wooden cutlery 😂

On A340s you have to walk downstairs to the cargo hold to use the bathroom!

You can fly in there premium economy on there codeshare flights with Qatar from Copenhagen and Stockholm