Monday’s scheduled strike of the Finnish airline Finnair has led to the cancellation of many flights already on Sunday. All European and domestic flights from Helsinki, with a scheduled return on Monday have been cancelled, as well as nearly all long-haul departures. Attempts will be made to fly leisure flights to holiday destinations.
Nine scheduled Finnair long haul flights were cancelled, but two scheduled flights to Bangkok are being flown on schedule with management personnel serving on the flight deck.
Finnair recommends that those passengers who can postpone their travel would do so. For those who cannot postpone their travel, Finnair will try to arrange for travel on other carriers. Finnair will also reimburse travellers for unused tickets.
The airline promises to be flexible in the rebooking of tickets regardless of what type of ticket was involved.
“The pilots’ strike will stop Finnair’s scheduled flights completely in practice. A few leisure flights may be flown on Finnair planes, but most leisure travel will also be flown on planes of other airlines,” said Taneli Hassinen of Finnair. He estimates the costs of the strike at between 2.5 and 5 million euros a day.
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airline travel is the best but the high cost of air travel makes it a not so great option`-;
i am afraid of travelling by plane by i might just get an airline travel when i go to europe this month :”~
Well ,it might be hard to travel without flying
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