Another very similar trip to my last trip to Hawaii!
By Nige
on Tue 21 May 2024
at 09:00
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | LHR | London Heathrow | Trips
I jogged most of the way to Passport Control. A number of the Schengen gates along the way were very busy, but Passport Control was dead.
By Nige
on Tue 21 May 2024
at 07:33
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: AGP | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Malaga | Trips
Malaga airport looked OK. Nothing special, but it had a Starbucks and a Giraffe restaurant, and that's just based on what I could see around Gate D42.
By Nige
on Mon 20 May 2024
at 23:34
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: AGP | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | LHR | London Heathrow | Malaga | Trips
Photos from Day 7.
By Nige
on Mon 20 May 2024
at 23:25
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: AGP | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Malaga | Trips
I had forgotten how nice the Platinum Wing is at Helsinki. That's the top Finnair lounge, located close to the 50+ gates in the non-Schengen area of the airport.
By Nige
on Mon 20 May 2024
at 13:00
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | LHR | London Heathrow | Trips
I whizzed through to T5 Flight Connections and got on the first T3 bus. It stopped at T5B, but by that stage, it was a squeeze to get anyone else onboard.
By Nige
on Wed 15 May 2024
at 17:14
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Hilton | LHR | London | Trips
Passport Control (allowing access to the non-Schengen gates) was really busy with a long queue tailing around a tensa barrier structure.
By Nige
on Wed 15 May 2024
at 14:32
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: BUD | Budapest | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Trips
Having turned off the light at around 1:30 a.m., I was awake at around 6:30 a.m., thinking about whether Mango had allowed her mum to get some sleep last night.
By Nige
on Tue 14 May 2024
at 08:42
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Tags: British Airways | BUD | Budapest | California | HEL | Helsinki | JFK | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | USA
This trip is based on one of the latest good value trips, originating somewhere in Europe and ending in Spain. For some reason, this open jaw arrangement reduced an already relatively cheap trip by a few hundred pounds.
Author Bio: About Nige
Nige is one of the co-founders of The Billingham Blog and works as a freelance management consultant. He loves to fly in his spare time!
