FINNAIR AND CROSSAIR CODE-SHARE TO BASEL

Finnair will start code-share flights with the Swiss airline, Crossair, from Helsinki to Basel and from Basel to Geneva, Lugano and Bern as of the beginning of the summer timetable period, the 25th of March. Crossair planes will be used on the flights, but Finnair will have the right to sell the flights, and all flights will have Finnair's airline code.

The daily flights to Basel will use 49-seat Embraer 145 planes, with take-off from Basel at 8.20 pm, and arrival in Helsinki a little after midnight, at 00.15 am. The flight will depart from Helsinki as early as 6.40 am, and reach Basel at 8.40 am.

There are excellent through services in Basel, and short transition times (about 20 minutes) to several destinations in Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and even in England, in addition to Swiss towns. The Basel airport itself is situated in the French territory, only 5 kilometres from Basel, 25 kilometres from Mulhouse, and 80 kilometres from Freiburg.

The code-share flights from Basel to Bern, Geneva and Lugano will be flown so that the planes will depart from Basel in the mornings and return there early in the evenings. Crossair is a subsidiary of Swissair, flying to more than 80 target destinations, and carrying nearly 6 million passengers a year.

The co-operation agreement between Finnair and Swissair, concerning three daily flights between Helsinki and Zurich, carried out as code-share flights with Finnair's planes, will also continue, as at present, in the summer period.