FINNAIR PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 18 August 2011 AT 19:25
The acquisition, by which the company Flybe Nordic AB, jointly owned by Flybe and Finnair, purchases Finnish Commuter Airlines, has been completed. Flybe owns 60% of Flybe Nordic and Finnair 40%. Flybe will be in charge of the operative management of the new company.
The joint vision [...]
FINNAIR PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 1 August 2011 AT 17:40
Finland’s competition authorities have approved the acquisition, announced on July 1, 2011, by which the company Flybe Nordic AB, jointly owned by Flybe and Finnair, will purchase Finnish Commuter Airlines. Flybe owns 60% of Flybe Nordic and Finnair 40%. Flybe will be in charge of the [...]
Finnair and Belavia, the national airline company of Belarusia, have signed a codeshare agreement. The co-operation covers the flights between Helsinki and Minsk as of August 15.
Belavia, established in 1996, is based in Minsk and it operates a modern fleet consisting of 10 Boeing 737 and 4 Canadair aircrafts. The company started operating to Helsinki [...]
The popular Airlinetrends.com website, which analyses consumer trends in the airline industry, has selected the world’s 11 most innovative airlines. Finnair is ranked in the top five.
Airlinetrends.com, based in the Netherlands, is an independent aviation and consumer trends research agency, which analyses the global airline industry and publishes its research results on the company’s website [...]
Finnair will today fly the world’s longest commercial flight to date using biofuel. In the next few weeks, Finnair will fly a series of four flights using biofuel in both engines of its aircraft.
For Finnair, it is important to find an ecologically, financially and socially sustainable fuel solution and this is one step towards more [...]
In May 2012 Finnair will introduce a direct route to Chongqing, the largest and fastest-growing city in China. The new route is a logical step in the implementation of Finnair’s Asian strategy. The airline’s goal is to benefit from the market growth in Asia and open new routes to markets where growth is strongest. Finnair [...]
Europe’s largest regional airline to deliver new routes and lower fares, creating an invigorated marketplace for Nordic regional aviation.
Further to this morning’s announcement to the London and Helsinki Stock Exchanges, Flybe and Finnair are proud to lay out their joint vision following the acquisition, subject to competition clearance, of Finnish Commuter Airlines (FCA) with their [...]
On the occasion of the Paris Air Show, World Airlines Awards 2011 has awarded Finnair the title of Best Airline in Northern Europe. The decision is founded on global research based on direct passenger assessments.
World Airline Awards™ draws on the aviation industry’s highly respected Skytrax World Airline Survey research and is also known as the [...]
Finnair has introduced an alertness model in the creation of crew schedules – the first airline in the world to do so. The new scientifically determined and experimentally verified system has been formulated with the aid of the Boeing Alertness Model (BAM). The model assesses a pilot’s state of alertness and promotes flight safety and [...]
Finnair is to add five flights per week to Hong Kong, increasing the number of flights to 12 per week during the summer traffic programme, May 30 – October 9, 2011.
The additional flights to Hong Kong will start and the daily Singapore route will open on May 30. Finnair operates a total of 74 flights [...]