{"id":27132,"date":"2026-04-14T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=27132"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:37:37","slug":"finnair-free-1000-avios-and-status-match-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2026\/04\/14\/finnair-free-1000-avios-and-status-match-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnair: free 1,000 Avios and status match offer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Finnair recently launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finnair.com\/se-en\/finnair-plus\/match-your-tier-to-finnair-plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">a status match offer<\/a>, but the scope is quite limited, so I didn\u2019t rush to cover it earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only for SAS Eurobonus members residing in Sweden<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply by 23 April<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Must purchase a Finnair flight departing or arriving in Sweden, travelling by 30 September<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Silver \u2192 <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\">Silver<\/mark><\/strong>, Gold and above \u2192 <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">Gold<\/mark><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications need to be submitted by sending the required documents to the email address listed on the webpage. Residency and flight requirements aren\u2019t too hard to work around. The bigger issue is that not many people still have SAS status these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you don\u2019t plan to actually take the flight, you could book a ticket for travel by 30 September just to apply. That\u2019s essentially spending under \u00a330 to \u201cbuy\u201d five months of Oneworld Sapphire status.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/finnair-status-match-flight.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/finnair-status-match-flight.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/finnair-status-match-flight.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/finnair-status-match-flight-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/finnair-status-match-flight-768x352.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Do note that if you cancel the flight or fail to fly, the matched status will be revoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s actually another promo that may be more useful: register as a new Finnair member by 31 May and set your address to Sweden, and you\u2019ll receive 1,000 Avios (credited by 8 June).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finnair\u2019s Avios programme is interoperable with airlines like British Airways, Iberia and Qatar Airways, so opening an account is worthwhile anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnair recently launched a status match offer, but the scope is quite limited, so I didn\u2019t rush to cover it earlier. Applications need to be submitted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[131,111],"class_list":["post-27132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finnair","tag-airline-promotion","tag-status-match"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27133,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27132\/revisions\/27133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}