Helsinki Airport’s Via Lounge, Via Spa Strive for World-Class Comfort

Its third and final phase having opened on December 10, 2009 with huge fanfare at a gala evening ceremony attended by thousands of guests, Helsinki Airport’s new Terminal 2 extension offers plenty of shopping, dining and relaxation choices to suit a variety of tastes and pocket-books. At the same time the new terminal extension – […]

Finnair to Codeshare on American Airlines’ New Chicago-Helsinki Route

Finnair is extending its codeshare cooperation with American Airlines to codeshare on American Airlines’ new service between Chicago and Helsinki, which begins in April 2011. American Airlines will fly the route in the 2011 summer season with Boeing 767-300ERs. Both American and Finnair are members of the oneworld alliance. American says the new route is a […]

Singapore Airlines and SAS To Codeshare

Singapore Airlines and Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) have signed a codeshare agreement that will begin on December 1. The new codeshare agreement between the two Star Alliance members will see Singapore Airlines adding its ‘SQ’ flight prefix to Scandinavian Airlines’ services from Copenhagen to Helsinki, Oslo and Stockholm. SIA operates three flights a week between Singapore and the […]

Lapland’s Airports – Gateways to the Far North

Some 20 per cent larger in area than Belgium and the Netherlands combined, but boasting only about two-thirds of one per cent of their total population, Finnish Lapland holds the distinction of being the European Union’s largest wilderness. Current estimates reckon that only 184,000 people live in Finnish Lapland, which was officially one of Finland’s […]

British Airways’ Narita Move Brings All Oneworld Airlines Together in T2

All oneworld-alliance member airlines serving Tokyo’s Narita International Airport will be operating from the same terminal from the end of this month, once British Airways transfers its operations to be alongside those of its alliance partners in Terminal 2 with effect from October 31. Japan Airlines (JAL), American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Finnair and Qantas are […]

Finnair Plans Substantial Increase in Its Schedule to Asian Cities

Finnair is planning to increase the frequency of its nonstop flights to Seoul, Nagoya, Osaka and Delhi from the end of 2010 and is launching a new route to Singapore in May 2011, as well as increasing service to Hong Kong in June. From December, Finnair will increase to six-times weekly its services to Seoul and to […]

Finnair Agrees ILFC Lease Deal to Add Two More A340-300s to its Fleet

Finnair is acquiring two 270-seat Airbus A340-300 widebodies on lease to meet its growing long-haul traffic needs. The aircraft will be acquired on operating leases of approximately four years from International Lease Finance Coportation (ILFC). The aircraft will join the Finnair fleet in late 2010 and early 2011. “We have recently announced an increase in Asian traffic […]