Cabin staff's strike affects Finnair's flight traffic also on Wednesday


The Finnish Cabin Crew Union's (SLSY) strike notably affects Finnair's flight
traffic on Wednesday. On Tuesday over 110 flights which affected around 6,000
passengers. Approximately 200 of Wednesdays flights will also be cancelled
which affects around 10,000 passengers. 
 
"We do our very best to take good care of our customers. We are very sorry for
all the inconvenience the situation causes among our customers," says Finnair's
SVP Customer Service Anssi Komulainen. 
 
Information and instructions to passengers are updated continually at the
address www.finnair.com/info. A personal text message will be sent to the
passengers of cancelled flights. For this, it is important that the current
telephone number is included in flight bookings. Passengers can check this by
following the instructions given on the information page. 
 
Regardless of the strike, every effort will be made to operate Finnair's
leisure flights normally. Leisure flights are mainly charter flights for the
needs of tour operators. 
 
Of scheduled flight destinations in Finland, Finnair flies during the strike to
Oulu, Kuopio, Vaasa, Joensuu, Rovaniemi, Kajaani and Kuusamo. There will also
be a service to Ivalo and Kittilä from Thursday to Sunday. Elsewhere in Europe,
flights take place to Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, London,
Paris and Brussels during the strike. Of long-haul flights, a daily service to
Bangkok takes place. The timetables of all flights and the number of flights to
destinations may deviate from normal and changes may occur. More detailed
information about flights is updated continually at the address
www.finnair.com/info. Information can also be found on Finnair's Finnair
Facebook page, www.facebook.com/Finnair. 

Finnair Plc
Communications
30.11.2010
GlobeNewswire