Finnair announces to start flying from Heathrow and Manchester in July, gradually adding frequencies and routes back to its global network as it returns to service.
From April through to June, Finnair will have been operating at 5% of its normal capacity, maintaining critical air connections for Finland. It will review its schedule on a monthly basis and update it as the restrictions ease.
From July, it will resume services with a double-daily service from Heathrow, rising up to three times a day in August and September then to four times a day in October. Meanwhile, services from Manchester will resume with four flights a week in July, ramping up to a daily service for customers to Helsinki in September,
Ole Orv?r, Finnair?s chief commercial officer, said: ?Our intention is to operate approximately thirty percent of our normal flights in July, and we will also start long-haul flights to our key Asian destinations. 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.?
Commencing from July, Finnair?s long-haul operations will have a strong focus on Asia. The airline 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.
Long-haul operations are supported by cargo demand. In August, Finnair will restart flights to Delhi and New York, and in November to Tokyo Haneda airport. Finnair also has flights to Miami, Krabi and Phuket planned during the winter holiday season.
On European routes, Finnair will first focus on major centres, and in July, will resume flying to Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, D?sseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Gothenburg, Geneva, Hamburg, London, Malaga, Manchester, Moscow, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Riga, Tallinn, Stockholm, St Petersburg, Vilnius, Vienna and Z?rich. In August Finnair will resume flights to Barcelona, Milan, Madrid, Rome and Warsaw.
In July, Finnair will operate six domestic routes in Finland, flying to Kuopio, Mariehamn, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Turku and Vaasa. In August, it will restart flights to Ivalo and Kittil? in Finnish Lapland, and in September operations recommence to Kuusamo and Tampere.
Since March, Finnair has offered its customers extraordinary flexibility to change travel dates, and this will continue until the end of June. As the airline publishes its flying schedule from July 2020 to the end of March 2021, it will cancel those flights which will not be operating.
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