Finnair and its oneworld alliance partner Cathay Pacific start code-share flights between Hong Kong and Brisbane in Australia on May 8. Finnair flies to Hong Kong daily with Airbus A340 aircraft. "Thanks to the cooperation, Finnair will be able to offer even more schedule, destination and route choices for customers travelling to Australia," says Mikko Komi, Director, Commercial Partnerships, from Finnair´s Alliances department. "The connections at Hong Kong airport are convenient and the increased number of destinations in Australia gives flexibility in travel plans for Finnair customers." Finnair and Cathay Pacific have cooperated earlier on routes between Hong Kong and Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Now Finnair can also sell Cathay Pacific operated flights with Finnair flight numbers to Brisbane. Cathay Pacific can sell tickets with its own flight number to Finnair flights from Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London as a connection to its own flights to Australia. Finnair Plc Communications 8.5.2009 Additional information: Finnair Media Desk tel. +358 9 818 4020 or media.desk(a)finnair.com Finnair's blogs: http://blogs.finnair.com Photobank: www.finnair.com/gallery Finnair Group website: www.finnairgroup.com via.Helsinki: www.viahelsinki.com