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Finnair targets Asia with Japan first off the rank
November 10th 2021
Finland’s flag carrier, Finnair, plans to serve almost 100 global destinations during the 2022 northern summer season with a focus on its Asian network. Read More » Travel restrictions allowing, Finnair will resume service to all the five destinations in Japan it served before the pandemic – Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo – and launch a service to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. As a result, see the airline will operate up to 40 weekly flights between Helsinki and Japan next summer, including daily services to Tokyo Narita and Haneda. It also will fly daily to Nagoya and Osaka and introduce double dailies to Osaka in June. Its Sapporo route will be introduced for the summer season for the first time with two weekly frequencies, and Fukuoka in southern Japan will be served by three flights a week. “Before the pandemic, Japan was our single largest market outside our home market. We look forward to returning to all five of our destinations in Japan,” said Finnair chief commercial officer, Ole Orver. “We are opening a route to Busan in South Korea, demonstrating our continuous commitment to offering the best and most sustainable connections between Europe and Asia via our Helsinki hub.” The airline notes it connects customers to other Asian megacities, flying to Shanghai and daily to Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Bangkok. It will offer daily flights to Delhi as of June and the new Busan route in South Korea will be launched in March with three weekly frequencies.
