FINNAIR IN BRIEF
Finnair, one of the world's oldest operating airlines, was established on 1st November, 1923. In 2003, Finnair celebrated its 80th birthday together with centennial powered aviation.
Finnair Group operations cover the following areas: scheduled passenger traffic and leisure traffic, technical and ground handling operations, catering, travel agencies as well as travel information and reservation services. The number of personnel of Finnair Group is approximately 10 000. The subsidiaries provide air traffic support services or operate in closely related areas.
Finnair's major shareholder is the Finnish government with a 58.4 per cent holding. Other shareholders include insurance companies, various companies and private individuals. Approximately 16 per cent of the shares are owned by foreign shareholders.
Route network
Finnair's route network, depending on the timetable period, covers about 50 international destinations. The company's long-haul routes fly to New York and Miami (in winter seasons) in North America and Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong in Asia. Finnair flies to Tokyo and Beijing non-stop across Siberia. New long-haul destinations in 2003 were Osaka and Shanghai.
Finnair flies to 16 destinations within Finland. The domestic flight network is one of the densest in the world in relation to population.
In addition to regular scheduled traffic Finnair operates leisure flights to more than 60 destinations. Leisure traffic flies mainly to holiday resorts in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, South-East Asia as well in the Caribbean and South America.
Fleet
The Finnair Group fleet comprises approximately 65 aircraft: Boeing MD-11 wide-body aircraft for long haul service, Airbus A321, A320 and A319 as well as Boeing MD-82/83 aircraft for European and domestic trunk routes, ATR 72 turbo prop aircraft for domestic and Baltic feeder traffic and Boeing 757 aircraft for leisure operations.
Close to 7 million passengers
During the calendar year 2003 Finnair carried a total of 6 849 100 passengers.
A total of 3 372 300 passengers were carried on international routes and 2 213 000 on domestic routes. The number of charter passengers was 1 263 500.
Cargo and mail carried by Finnair in the year 2003 totalled 73 416 tonnes. |