Icelandic volcanic eruption affects Finnair flight traffic also on Sunday


Dust discharged into the air by the eruption of a volcano in Iceland is
disrupting flight traffic in Europe. Helsinki Airport remains closed until
Sunday, April 18th, 3 p.m. EET. Finnair has to cancel all of its flights until
then. 

Between Thursday and Saturday, Finnair has had to cancel 435 flights, affecting
around 54,000 passengers. 

Passengers whose flights are cancelled may transfer their journey to a later
date by contacting the travel agency that sold their ticket or Finnair.
Passengers can also apply for a refund for Finnair flight tickets that remain
unused due to cancellations. Refund can be applied also for Finnair flights
between April 18-25 that are not cancelled. If their flight is cancelled,
passengers are advised not to come to the airport. 

Information is being updated continually at the address www.finnair.com/info.
Service to customers is provided on the telephone numbers +358 10 808 045 and
+358 600 140 140. 

Read Finnair's Safety Pilot Jussi Ekman's blog about the effects of the
volcanic ash cloud at http://blogs.finnair.com/. 
 
Finnair Plc
Communications
16.4.2010