Finnair to increase flights to St Petersburg

Finnair is increasing its number of flights to St Petersburg, bringing the weekly total of departures to the Russian city to ten.

Afternoon departures on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays to the Russian city of St Petersburg will be added to the Finnair timetable in May, and Business Class service will be returned to the route at the same time. The improved service enables business customers to make one day business trips to the city from Finland. The new flights also make it possible for Finnair to offer faster connections between Scandinavian destinations and from other European destinations to St Petersburg.

"The new flights are a response to the growing demand in the Finnish and St Petersburg areas for connections and strengthen further our Asian strategy, offering good inward connections from Japan and China to St Petersburg," said Henrik Arle, Finnair's Deputy CEO. "At the same time there are new onward connections from St Petersburg to Asian routes."

Increasing numbers of Asian passengers want to visit St Petersburg right now, and demand in St Petersburg for travel to Asia is also on the rise.

The new flights leave on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Helsinki at 16.00, arriving at 17.55 local time. On Sundays the respective times are half an hour later. Return flights from St Petersburg to Helsinki depart at 18.30 (19.25 on Sundays) arriving at Helsinki at 18.20 (19.20 on Sundays). The flights will be operated using Finnair's new Embraer 170 series 76-seat jet aircraft.

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