Finnair to Add Long-Haul Routes in July

Finnair will gradually add long-haul and regional frequencies and routes back to its network from July, following an almost complete suspension of services in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. The initial focus will be on established routes to strategically important Asian destinations.

Building its long-haul network again, Finnair will fly to Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai in Greater China (subject to government approval); to Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo Narita in Japan; and to Singapore, Seoul and Bangkok.

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In addition, in August, Finnair will start flights to Delhi and to New York, and in November to Tokyo Haneda airport. Finnair also has flights to Miami, Krabi and Phuket during the winter holiday season.

The carrier will also rebuilt its Europe network, initially focusing on key centres; in July it will fly to Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Geneva, Hamburg, London, Malaga, Manchester,  Moscow, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Riga, Tallinn, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Vilnius, Vienna and Zürich. In August, Finnair will start flights to Barcelona, Milan, Madrid, Rome and Warsaw.

Finnair will gradually add long-haul and regional frequencies and routes back to its network from July, following an almost complete suspension of services in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic. The initial focus will be on established routes to strategically important Asian destinations. 

The Finnish national carrier will also maintain important domestic services, operating six domestic routes to Kuopio, Mariehamn, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Turku and Vaasa, Ivalo and Kittilä in the Finnish Lapland added in August and Kuusamo and Tampere in September. Finnair will not operate to Joensuu, Jyväskylä, Kajaani, Kemi or Kokkola during summer 2020.

Decisions for these five destinations for winter 2020/2021 will be made later in the year, when there is more visibility to how the demand develops.

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Finnair will review its schedule on a monthly basis and will update it as travel restrictions are removed and demand starts to recover.

”We expect aviation to recover gradually, starting in July”, says Finnair chief commercial officer Ole Orvér. ”Our intention is to operate approximately 30 per cent of our normal amount of flights in July, and we will also start long-haul flights to our key Asian destinations. We will then add routes and frequencies month by month as demand recovers. Our recent customer survey shows that customers are already planning both business and leisure trips. We want to meet this demand with our network offering.”

A list of routes that Finnair will not operate during summer 2020 and winter 2020/2021 at all is available on Finnair’s Travel updates page.

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