Offers to Asia on finnair - BKK from £455

FunTime

So, let's take the more expensive 10.20am flight with FinnAir. That wasn't included in the sale, so the price is £560.71, never £455. Remember that I checked many different dates just to find a sale fare that wasn't twenty nine hours plus outbound.

Anyway... now you will take both sectors on the A350. That is nearly thirteen hours cramped into a 31" seat pitch with a 18" seat width.

So in your best case scenario, FinnAir is still down overall on space, since Oman Air's A330 gives you a 34" seat pitch for seven hours. So even if you are in the worst seat on the 788, you still have 2.3" per hour of space extra over the whole journey.....for £200 less.



Simple calculation for you;

Let's attribute 60 inches of height to each seat. That would give us a figure of 31 x 18 x 60 for the A350. That will give you a total of 33,480 cubic inches of personal space for your trip on FinnAir.

Oman's A330 would be 34" x 18" x 60" equalling 36,720 cubic inches of space.
Oman's 788 would be 31" x 17.3" x 60" equalling 32,178 cubic inches of space.

So the total space per hour on the Oman Air journey is 34,449 cubic inches

Clearly superior to FinnAir overall.

In the interest of fairness, let's give you the best seat on the A350 with a 32" seat pitch.
So that will be 32 x 18 x 60. A total of 34,560 cubic inches. Barely pipping Oman Air overall...and that is your best case scenario. For that, you have paid £200 more, you still have an inflexible ticket, you are still a 7kg luggage allowance down....

FunTime

If you ask anyone which is preferable; a larger seat pitch of a wider seat, they will almost always want more space for their legs.
So whilst you keep going on about the 788, it actually offer the same seat pitch as FinnAir's A350. The only difference is that you have 0.7" less elbow room.
Whereas you deliberately fail to mention the extra 3" of leg room on the first and longest leg of the Oman Air flight.
I believe most people would choose the extra 3" of leg room given the choice.
Which is why the FinnAir tickets are not selling and the Oman Air tickets are going like hot cakes.

FunTime

richardw wrote: »

The price difference is £100 for a return journey, a return journey includes Muscat-Bangkok-Muscat which is more than 12.5 hours flight time on a B787.

No, if you want to choose the 10.25, the price jumps to £560. So a £200 difference.

If you are aggregating both outbound and inbound, you need to attribute fourteen hours on the far superior space of Oman Air's A330 with it's spacious 34" seat pitch.

So fourteen hours with a 34" seat pitch compared to fourteen hours with a 31" seat pitch on the FinnAir's A350.

You just keep digging.

dickydonkin

Wow......is this thread still ongoing? Dear me.

richardw I think we have both been wasting valuable hours of our life (which we will never get back) posting on this thread in attempting to have a SENSIBLE debate relating to the thread topic.

My dad always used to tell me that when you are dealing with someone who is irrational, he would tell me to walk away as you are just p*$$*ng into the wind.

I remembered that advice yesterday.

FunTime

dickydonkin wrote: »

Wow......is this thread still ongoing? Dear me.



I remembered that advice yesterday.

Are you back again?

Have you noticed that you two are the only ones thanking each other? No one else agrees with you.

:rotfl:

Voyager2002

What are the duty-free shopping opportunities like in Helsinki? Anything special about the vodka?

And on Oman air, do you get enough time in Muscat to check out the mosques? Is it still true that they are closed to non-Muslims?

Any other fares that offer an economical way to visit long-lost relatives scattered around the globe?

dickydonkin

FunTime wrote: »

Have you noticed that you two are the only ones thanking each other? No one else agrees with you.

:rotfl:

Yes back again, I don't spend my spare time hovering over a computer screen all day just to argue with fellow posters I actually have a life.

As you are strangely using the 'thanks' count as a barometer as to who is correct on this thread, it seems apparent you have not checked your own. :rotfl:

FunTime wrote: »

If you ask anyone which is preferable; a larger seat pitch of a wider seat, they will almost always want more space for their legs..

The answer may be different from someone with a large backside and short legs who may prefer to pay extra to fly another airline with a wider seat. I don't wish to be disrespectful to such people, but some of those Y seats are narrow and would certainly be challenging for someone with larger dimensions around their rear, but their legs may be short enough for legroom not to be so problematic.

FunTime

dickydonkin wrote: »

Yes back again, I don't spend my spare time hovering over a computer screen all day just to argue with fellow posters I actually have a life.

As you are strangely using the 'thanks' count as a barometer as to who is correct on this thread, it seems apparent you have not checked your own. :rotfl:


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I beg to differ.... since you insisted that you would not return this thread, you have posted perhaps six or seven times. Why?
I'm sure that you'll post again, just to argue. That flies in the face of your claims, doesn't it?

Seems that it's really important to you to post here, even if you have nothing useful to add.
and yes I do have thanks on this thread. Perhaps you should have checked before posting and continued making yourself look silly.

richardw

FunTime wrote: »

...you need to attribute fourteen hours on the far superior space of Oman Air's A330 with it's spacious 34" seat pitch....

No the deciding factor is the worst case, which is more than 12.5 hours on Oman Air's cramped B787, well worth avoiding at a small extra cost per flight hour.

FunTime

richardw wrote: »

No the deciding factor is the worst case, which is more than 12.5 hours on Oman Air's cramped B787, well worth avoiding at a small extra cost per flight hour.

The deciding factor for you, silly.

Most would just buy a direct flight with a decent airline for the £455 in the first place.
It's only you who considers from £455 for a indirect flight with a very average airline a good deal.
Even your biggest support dickydonkin, agrees that it's no bargain. But yet you persist.
Crazy.