COVID19: Finnair Makes Major Changes to Network and Resources

In an attempt to minimize the negative financial impact of the COVID19 outbreak, Finnair has decided to adjust its traffic program and resources to better reflect the decline in demand.

As such, Finnair has cancelled flights to Mainland China - Guangzhou, Nanjing, Beijing Capital, Beijing Daxing, Shanghai, Xi´an - until 30 April 2020.

In April, Finnair will fly to Hong Kong with one daily frequency instead of the normal two daily frequencies.

The airline has also cancelled two weekly flights from its Osaka route, and will fly to Osaka during the summer season (29 March – 24 October 2020) with 10 weekly frequencies instead of the earlier scheduled 12 weekly frequencies.

The Finnish airline has cancelled its daily flights to Seoul from 9 March to 16 April 2020 and postponed the opening of its new route to Busan from 31 March 2020 to 1 July 2020.

The airline is also cancelling its flights between Helsinki and Milan from 9 March to 7 April 2020, following an updated travel advisory from the Finnish Foreign Ministry concerning Milan.

Finnair customers affected by these changes can then either seek for a full ticket refund or postpone their travel by contacting Finnair customer services. Finnair is also offering customers who have bookings for any Finnair flights in March the possibility to change their travel date to the same destination until the end of June 2020, if they so wish.

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Finnair has confirmed that it will soon start negotiations on planned temporary layoffs affecting the entire Finnair personnel based in Finland.

According to the current estimate, the possible layoffs would be implemented so that all employees within the co-operations process would be temporarily laid off for a 14-30 day period.

The negotiations start on 12 March and are expected to last for two weeks. Similar personnel measures will also be taken in countries outside Finland.

Finnair is also adjusting its other costs globally, such as sales and marketing activities and other external spending.

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