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Friday, June 15, 2007

Finnair to commence Mumbai to Helsinki direct flights


On June 27, Finland’s national carrier, Finnair, will commence its direct Mumbai-Helsinki flights. “We will connect Mumbai to Europe in the fastest and most convenient service, five times a week with the most competitive return fares,” said Christer Haglund, Senior Vice President (Corporate Communications), Finnair at a press conference in Mumbai. The flights will be operated using the wide-bodied Airbus 340 aircraft and will serve Indian food, “to make passengers feel at home,” Haglund added. The airline initially started its India operations with three weekly flights from the national capital, New Delhi, in October 2006. “Our Indian business is growing enormously. Sensing the need, we plan to quadruple our flights in India in a span of eight months since the commencement of operations.

That precisely encouraged us to commence operations from Mumbai,” he said. Terming the Mumbai-Helsinki flights as “environment-friendly”, Haglund said that he referred to the route in those terms since “with a flight time of just over eight hours, there will be no refuelling stops.” He added that the airline's economy class passenger load to Asia had increased by 80 per cent and the business class by 40 per cent. “We foresee an enormous potential in the Asian market, particularly in the Indian sector, though the revenue from the Asian market in the last five fiscal years was just five per cent of the airline’s total revenue,” he added.

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