Finnair Avios Sale, Up to 50% Off: Who Can Buy, Worth It?
Finnair sells Avios at up to 50% off through Nov 16, only to Finnair Plus members who joined before Oct 30 with 50+ Avios. The rules, and when it pays.
By Vamsi, RewardsGuru.club. Published November 10, 2026.
Checked November 10, 2026 on Finnair's own website, signed out, and on the other airlines' own sites, with Flying Blue's buy page read signed in to our own account. Dollar prices are before any purchase tax. Figures are as of November 10, 2026.
Finnair is selling Avios at up to 50% off through November 16. It's the biggest discount on airline miles this month, and it comes with a gate: the sale is only for Finnair Plus members who joined before October 30, 2026 and have at least 50 Avios in their account. If you don't have a Finnair Plus account with Avios in it today, you can't buy at these prices.
TL;DR
- Finnair Plus: up to 50% off Avios, November 2 to 16. 30% off from 5,000 Avios, 35% from 20,000, 40% from 50,000 and 50% from 85,000. At the top tier you pay half of Finnair's regular price for each Avios.
- Who can buy: members who joined Finnair Plus before October 30, 2026 and hold at least 50 Avios. A new account opened today doesn't qualify.
- The other rules: buy at least 5,000 Avios to get a discount, and up to 200,000 a year (Finnair reset the limit). The Avios land in 1 to 3 days, and Finnair shows the price only after you log in.
- We value Avios at 1.35 cents. A price per Avios below that is cheaper than what we think they're worth.
- The month's other mile sales cost more per mile than we value those miles. EVA Air's 50% bonus leaves its miles at 2.67 cents against our 1.9-cent value, Flying Blue isn't discounting purchases (3.05 cents a mile in our account), and Miles & More's 20% off covers only Multiply&Go.
Finnair Plus: up to 50% off Avios, through November 16
Finnair's page, read November 10: "Buy at least 5,000 Avios between 2–16 November 2026 and get up to a 50% discount + a fixed 10% bonus on tier points." The discount grows with the purchase:
| You buy | Discount |
|---|---|
| 5,000 to 19,000 Avios | 30% |
| 20,000 to 49,000 Avios | 35% |
| 50,000 to 84,000 Avios | 40% |
| 85,000 to 200,000 Avios | 50% |
At the top tier you pay half of Finnair's regular price for each Avios; at the bottom tier, 70% of it.
Who can buy, and the other rules
Finnair's page: "The offer is only available to Finnair Plus members who joined the program before 30 October 2026 and have a minimum balance of 50 Avios in their Finnair Plus account." Both conditions have to be true already. Joining today, or joining and then adding Avios, doesn't open the sale to you.
The rest of the terms, from the same page:
- 5,000 Avios minimum for any discount. Under 5,000 the discount is 0%.
- Up to 200,000 Avios a year. "The annual buy limit is reset, allowing you to purchase up to 200,000 Avios even if you have already reached the annual limit earlier in 2026."
- Prices only after login. "Please note that you need to log in to see the prices and buy Avios."
- 1 to 3 days to arrive. The Avios "will be added to your account 1–3 days after the purchase."
- The 10% tier-point bonus doesn't count toward Platinum Lumo, Finnair's top status, which needs tier points from Finnair flights.
One more detail from Finnair's own Avios page: buying restarts the clock on your balance, because Avios don't expire "as long as you have one transaction every 18 months."
When buying Avios pays
We value Avios at 1.35 cents each. If the price your account shows is below that, the sale undercuts our value. Whether it pays for you depends on the flight you want, and one rule settles it: divide the flight's cash price by the Avios it costs. That's what each Avios is worth to you on that flight. If it's higher than the sale's price per Avios, buying works for that flight; if it's lower, it doesn't.
Two checks before you pay:
- Find the seat first. Award seats are limited, and a purchase of miles is hard to undo.
- Buy for one award. The tier you land in sets your price per Avios, so size the purchase to the award you found, and check whether a slightly bigger purchase reaches the next tier.
Our guide to where Avios work covers the airlines that take them.
The month's other mile sales, and why they don't make the cut
Three more airlines have offers on miles in November. At our values, none of them sells miles for less than they're worth.
| Program | Offer on buying | Per mile | Our value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finnair (Avios) | Up to 50% off | After login | 1.35 cents |
| EVA Air | Up to 50% bonus | 2.67 cents | 1.9 cents |
| Flying Blue | None | 3.05 cents | 1.4 cents |
| Miles & More | 20% off Multiply&Go only | 2.11 cents | Not published |
- EVA Air: up to a 50% bonus, November 10 to 25 (Taiwan time). EVA sells miles at $40 per 1,000, so 50,000 bought miles plus the 50% bonus are 75,000 miles for $2,000, 2.67 cents each. EVA's terms also cap bought miles at half of any award: "The purchase miles or top up miles used in the redemption cannot exceed half (50%) of the total mileage required for that redemption."
- Flying Blue (Air France and KLM): no discount on buying. Signed in to our own account, 100,000 miles cost $3,050.00, 3.05 cents a mile. The "up to 50% bonus Miles" on Flying Blue's home page applies only to multiplying miles you earned in the previous 10 months. What Flying Blue does put on sale is awards: its November Promo Rewards take up to 25% off.
- Lufthansa Miles & More: 20% off Multiply&Go only, through November 30. Multiply&Go multiplies the miles you earn when you fly, so it suits people who fly Lufthansa Group airlines often. Bundle&Go bundles are at their usual price: the XL bundle is $3,160 for up to 150,000 miles, 2.11 cents a mile before its extras. We don't publish a value for Miles & More miles.
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