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Finnair and UNICEF help children in India

by Jarkko on November 28, 2011

in Airlines, Aviation

Finnair is once more launching its Change for Good campaign on international flights in cooperation with UNICEF Finland. The campaign’s aim is to raise funds for UNICEF’s ‘Clean Water and Environment for Children of India’ programme, for the third and final year. The programme places special emphasis on the importance of maintaining sanitation, hygiene and [...]

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Air China hits the business travelers with a new class

June 27, 2011
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Air China is coming to the European markets hard, making times very difficult for airlines such as Finnair and SAS who is depending the Asia traffic. Air China made a rather small but important upgrades to their fleet, they put the business class to the new look. Some may think, so what? But my feeling [...]

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Finnair becomes first airline in the world to use alertness modelling

June 14, 2011
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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 [...]

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SAS launches Copenhagen-Shanghai in March 2012

June 8, 2011
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What is Finnair’s role in there? Is it really happening that Finnair will become one with SAS? We’ll see, latest in October. Anyway, here’s what SAS informed Planegrazy about this upcoming route: Scandinavian Airlines will launch its new Copenhagen-Shanghai March 1, 2012. The five weekly service will offer short and smooth connections time from all [...]

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Finnair opened direct daily flights to Singapore

June 5, 2011

Singapore is Finnair’s tenth scheduled destination in Asia, making it the only airline with daily connections between Singapore and Northern Europe according to a timetable devised especially for the needs of business travelers. “Finnair’s Asian strategy has worked extremely well,” says Finnair CEO Mika Vehviläinen. “The Singapore route will strongly support our core strategy as [...]

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Heaven on earth, or in Helsinki airport

May 11, 2011

I think our dreams have come true, finally.. Finnair is hiring twelve angels to guide customers in Helsinki (HEL) airport. Finnair Ground Customer Service, VP, Minna Toiviainen said: “Our goal is to develop our service continuously and to offer our customers Peace of Mind, care and attention at every stage of their journey,” She continues: [...]

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Norwegian landed to Finland

March 3, 2011
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Norwegian, the second biggest airline landed to Finnish travel market, bringing some interesting options to the travelers. This will also make Finnish markets more interesting. Norwegian will take it’s share from finnish customers like EasyJet did past summer. This will make Finnair’s life even more difficult as it is already. It has been clear for [...]

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The cabin staff strike continues, Finnair flies over 30 per cent of its flights

December 7, 2010

Today Finnair has flown over 30 per cent of its flights and carried approximately 45 per cent of its customers. During the following days, every effort will be made to keep the number of flights on the same level. “We deeply apologize to all our customers for the difficulties the cabin staff strike has caused. [...]

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