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FINNAIR PILOTS THREATEN STRIKE ACTION

October 30, 2009 Airlines

The Finnish Airline Pilots’ Association (FAPA) has stated its intention to start strike action as of November 16, 2009. The pilots have also announced an overtime ban starting on October 31, 2009. The overtime ban is illegal. Finnair’s pilots want to continue under the terms of the employment agreement that expired a year ago, terms [...]

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Airline without a CEO

October 19, 2009 Airlines

I just got back home from business trip and read some article about the company that didn’t have a CEO who should do it’s job. Now, this is something that not a single company wants, right? But there’s one company that is running without a CEO hired. Finnair. Mr. Hienonen quit his job a while [...]

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Finnair daily to New Delhi

September 24, 2009 Airlines

Finnair flies daily to New Delhi as of 25 September. Thanks to Helsinki’s excellent geographical location on the great circle route, the flight time to Delhi is only 6 hours 30 minutes. “Our route is the shortest between the EU and India, so it has found wide interest amongst travellers,” says Petteri Kostermaa, Vice President, [...]

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Finnair opens local language PR sites to serve media

September 24, 2009 Airlines

Image via Wikipedia The number of passengers in Asian traffic has doubled for Finnair in five years. This has created a need to serve media even better than before and in a wider range of languages in different market places. Therefore Finnair is now in the process of opening localised PR sites to serve local [...]

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Finnair and SLSY reach stabilisation agreement

September 16, 2009 Airlines

Finnair and the Finnish Flight Attendants’ Association SLSY today reached a fixed-term stabilisation agreement. The agreement covers the EUR 12.3 million cost-cutting target specified in 2009. The cost-cutting target is part of a previously announced cost-cutting programme. “The agreed solutions are not easy, but they are necessary. Through fruitful co-operation we reached an outcome by [...]

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Finnair celebrates 10 years of oneworld membership

August 31, 2009 Airlines

Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of Finnair’s joining of the oneworld airline alliance. Finnair became a oneworld member in September 1999, the year that the alliance was founded. Alliance membership has grown from the five founder companies to the current 10 members and their nearly 20 subsidiary airlines. Later this year, the [...]

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Airline Passenger Numbers in Finland Continue Nose Dive

August 31, 2009 Airlines

Image by Pajaratorio via Flickr A steady decline in the number of passengers moving through Finnish airports continued from the first quarter of 2009 into the second quarter. Finavia, Finland’s airport management company says between April and June the number of domestic air passengers dropped almost 16 percent compared to the same period in 2008. [...]

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FINNAIR CONTINUES EFFICIENCY MEASURES BY SIMPLIFYING ORGANISATION

August 14, 2009 Airlines

Image via Wikipedia As part of its operational efficiency programme, Finnair is changing the structure of its Group organisation. The objective of the planned change is to centralise the Group’s Scheduled Passenger Traffic and Leisure Flight operations into an integrated Flight Traffic organisation under the President & CEO of Finnair Plc. In addition, closer cooperation [...]

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