Finnair confirms Asia expansion for summer 2022

Friday, November 12, 2021

Finnair has unveiled plans to serve nearly 100 destinations in Asia, the US and Europe during the summer season, which begins on March 27. The airline will open new long-haul routes to Busan in South Korea, Tokyo Haneda, Dallas in the US, and will also have Sapporo as a summer destination for the first time.

The airline flies daily to Tokyo Narita and Haneda, offering a total of 14 weekly frequencies to the capital of Japan. The carrier also flies daily to Nagoya and Osaka and will introduce double dailies to Osaka in June. 

Finnair’s Sapporo route will be introduced for the summer season for the first time with two weekly frequencies, and Fukuoka in Southern Japan is served with three weekly flights. The carrier connects customers to key Asian megacities, flying to Shanghai and daily to Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Bangkok.

Finnair offers daily flights to Delhi as of June. The new Busan route in South Korea will be launched in March with three weekly frequencies. In North America, Finnair will fly to Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, and open a route to Dallas as a new destination.

Dallas will be added to the network as of February 7th and will be operated four times a week, with excellent connections to Finnair’s partner American Airlines’ network. As intercontinental traffic grows, Finnair will also strengthen its European network from Helsinki with smooth connections to more than 70 European cities, including new destinations Zagreb and Larnaca.

Finnair offers double daily flights to cities like Amsterdam, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Vienna, Zürich, Gdansk and Milan, and even more daily frequencies to Paris, London, Berlin, Warsaw, Brussels, St Petersburg as well as the Scandinavian and Baltic cities.

Ole Orvér, Chief Commercial Officer, Finnair said that before the pandemic, Japan was the airline’s single largest market outside the home market Finland, and hence the airline is looking forward to returning to all our five destinations in Japan. He added that the carrier is also opening a new route to Busan in South Korea, demonstrating continuous commitment to offering the best and most sustainable connections between Europe and Asia via Helsinki hub.

It was also mentioned that the carrier is pleased to strengthen its network in the US by adding Dallas as a new destination. Our customers will be able to enjoy great connections to other cities in North America through the extensive network of our alliance partner, American Airlines.

If travel restrictions allow, 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 new service to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Altogether, Finnair will fly up to 40 weekly flights between Helsinki and Japan in summer 2022.

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