Finnair to Ramp Up Service to Toronto in June 2010

Finnair, the national carrier of Finland, will operate five non-stop flights per week between Toronto and Helsinki starting June 6, 2010. Finnair will offer all-economy class flights on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, leaving Toronto at 10:50 p.m., arriving in Helsinki at 2 p.m. the next afternoon. Return flights will depart Helsinki at 5:45 p.m., arriving in Toronto at 7:35 p.m. on the same day. This schedule will be in effect from June 6 to September 9, 2010.

If passengers from Toronto, Halifax, Montreal or other Canadian cities want to travel internationally prior to the start of the Toronto 2010 summer schedule, Finnair of course offers non-stop service from New York (JFK), as it has for the past forty years.

Another reason to travel via Helsinki may be Helsinki Airport’s recent win as the World’s Best in Baggage Delivery according to the 2009 Skytrax World Airport Awards survey, where passengers were asked to evaluate their experiences with airport services. Over 190 airports all over the world participated in the survey.

According to airport statistics, passengers at Helsinki Airport are able to claim their bags quickly, since roughly 87 percent of arriving flights are offloaded in less than 30 minutes. Currently, Finnair’s route network includes more than 50 international destinations, and 700 more through its cooperation with Oneworld alliance partners.