DAT LT operates some Finnair short-haul flights during December 2023 and January 2024
Finnair leases an A320 aircraft and crew from DAT LT between 1 December 2023 and 6 January 2024 to support our busy holiday season. DAT LT operates some of our Berlin, Stockholm Arlanda, Oulu, Budapest, Copenhagen and Frankfurt flights according to the original schedule.
DAT LT follows Finnair’s safety instructions and service concept, and the DAT crew serves customers in English. Read more about our short-haul service here. Unfortunately, wifi is not available on our flights operated by DAT.
If customer’s operating airline changes from Finnair to DAT, Finnair will contact the customer personally via e-mail. To receive Finnair’s messages, please make sure that customers’ contact information on bookings is up to date.
Event | DAT wet lease |
Route/market/destination/airports impacted | HEL-ARN/OUL/BER/BUD/CPH/FRA-HEL |
Travel dates impacted | 01DEC23-06JAN24 |
Applies to tickets issued by | 20NOV23 |
New travel dates | -7/+14 days from original travel date |
Changes to origin/destination/stopover | Allowed within same country/neighboring city, ground transportation at own expense or ground transportation expenses covered by Finnair (AY) |
Airlines allowed | Finnair (AY) operated and marketed only, rerouting to other airlines not allowed |
Booking class to be used | Same or lowest available booking class within same cabin |
Number of allowed changes | One change free of charge, further changes according to normal ticket rules |
Mandatory waiver text in OSI element | OS AY CHANGE DUE TO DAT WETLEASE OS AY REFUND DUE TO DAT WETLEASE |
Mandatory indicator in front of fare calculation on the reissued ticket | ‘S’ -indicator |
Mandatory text in the endorsement | SKCHG to be used for involuntary changes when there is more than 2 days before departure (together with ‘S’ indicator in the fare calculation) |
Refunds | Full or partial refund allowed; cancel the booking/remaining segments and refund the ticket directly in your own GDS (if that is not possible, process refund via BSP/ARC) |
Bookings with connecting flights not in sync with new schedule | We have tried to keep all the connections which are on the same ticket but there might be cases where it is not possible to offer a smooth connection with the changed schedule; postpone the travel to a later flight/date in original booking class or cancel the booking for a full refund, rerouting to other airline is not allowed |
Ancillaries | The above-mentioned change policy applies also to ancillaries, for the one free change follow the ancillary instructions on Easy Refund allowed only in case a similar ancillary service is not available on the new flight. Process EMD refunds via BSPlink refund application (ARC users: apply for refund via Refund Web-form and mention “ARC Agent” in the additional information box) |
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More information about the customer communication at finnair.com on Travel updates page.