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Thursday May 06, 2021

Passenger number reduces by 89% at Finnish airports in Q1

The passenger volumes of commercial air traffic at Finavia’s airports in January–March 2021 declined by 89.6% year-on-year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said a Finavia press release. The total number of passengers was 508,038 (4,863,432). In the comparison period, air traffic was at the normal pre-pandemic level during the

Published: 03:22 am,Saturday 1 May 2021

Foreign tourist inflow drops 82% in February

Overnight stays by foreign tourists at Finnish accommodation establishments declined by 82.1 per cent and 0.05 million overnight stays were recorded for non-resident tourists in March, according to Statistics Finland. Meanwhile, overnight stays by resident tourists at Finnish accommodation establishments increased by 11.7 per cent from last year and

Published: 01:44 am,Thursday 29 April 2021

Number of passengers at Finnish airports slides by 83% in March

A total of 167,754 passengers flew through Finnish airports in March, which was 83 per cent fewer than twelve months earlier, according to Statistics Finland. There were 119,526 passengers at Helsinki Airport and a total of 48,228 passengers at other domestic airports. Helsinki Airport accounted for 71 per cent

Published: 00:01 am,Tuesday 27 April 2021

Finnair plans big-time growth of operation

The national flag carrier Finnair is preparing to expand its flight schedule this summer with a focus on leisure destinations, as the vaccine roll-out is expected to enable the reopening of travelling in many countries, said Finnair in a press release on Monday. In June, Finnair will resume flights

Published: 21:18 pm,Friday 23 April 2021

Limits on public transports in Helsinki to be lifted on 26 April

The ongoing restriction of limiting the maximum number of passengers of public transports to 50 per cent of the normal maximum capacity in the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (HUS) will be lifted on 26 April, said the Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (Helsinginseudunliikenne (HSL) in a press release

Published: 12:48 pm,Friday 23 April 2021

Finnair to accept COVID-19 vaccination certificate from 11 May

The national flag carrier Finnair will start accepting certificates of getting the first vaccination dose on its Finland-bound flights from 11 May. The vaccination certificate will be accepted as an alternative to negative coronavirus infection test result or a certificate of a previous COVID-19 infection, said Finnair in a

Published: 21:27 pm,Friday 23 April 2021

Trees around Ivalo Airport to be felled for flight safety

The operator of the country’s airports, Finavia, will fell trees that have grown to a height at which they cause obstruction to flights operation at Ivalo Airport. The measure will ensure safe take-off and landing of large aircraft, in accordance with the aviation authority’s regulations, said Finavia in a

Published: 21:51 pm,Tuesday 13 April 2021

KfW IPEX to invest €75m more for Helsinki Airport expansion

KfW IPEX-Bank is contributing EUR 75 million more to the financing of the expansion and modernisation of Helsinki Airport, said the country’s operator of airports Finavia in a press release on Tuesday, quoting KfW IPEX-Bank sources. Helsinki Airport, originally built in 1952 for the Summer Olympic Games hosted by

Published: 02:25 am,Wednesday 14 April 2021

Neste, Finnair present solution to reduce travel emissions

The state-run petroleum company Neste and the national flag carrier Finnair are joining forces to reduce carbon emissions related to Neste employees’ business travel by using Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), said Neste in a press release on Tuesday. Neste has recently made 300 tonnes of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation

Published: 01:40 am,Thursday 8 April 2021

Finnair loses 83% passengers in March YoY

The national flag carrier Finnair this March carried 86,300 passengers or 82.7% less than the number of passengers it carried in March 2020, even though the COVID-19 impact became already visible by then. The number of passengers in March was 1.1% less than that in February, said Finnair in

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