Finnair adds Goa, Havana, Puerto Plata and Puerto Vallarta and increases frequencies to Asia in winter 2017
(Warsaw 25.1.2017) Finnair is expanding with new scheduled flights to Goa in India, Havana in Cuba, Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Vallarta in Mexico for the 2017 winter season. In addition, Finnair will be adding extra frequencies to popular winter holiday and business destinations Bangkok, Delhi, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Finnair will fly two weekly flights to the coastal city of Goa in India between November 29 and March 21. The flights will be operated from Helsinki on Wednesdays and Sundays with an A330 aircraft. In addition a weekly frequency will be added to the Delhi route, resulting in six weekly flights to the Indian capital during the winter season.
Between December 1 and March 23 there will be two scheduled weekly Finnair flights to Havana, Cuba. The flights will be operated on Mondays and Fridays with Finnair's new A350 aircraft.
From November 30 to March 22 Finnair will fly a new scheduled weekly flight to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. The flight will be operated on Thursdays with an A330 aircraft. To Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourism region on Mexico's Pacific Ocean coast, there will be a new scheduled weekly flight between November 19 and March 18. The flight will be operated on Sundays with an A350 aircraft.
Seasonal capacity to Thailand will be increased by two additional weekly frequencies on the Bangkok route, bringing the total number of weekly flights between Helsinki and Bangkok to 16. The schedule will be adjusted to offer a late evening flight between both cities, giving additional flexibility for travelers. In addition Finnair serves routes to Krabi and Phuket.
The Hong Kong route will see three new weekly frequencies as of the beginning of the winter season, making it a 10-weekly operation around the year, and two more frequencies will be added to Singapore, making it a daily destination year-round.
"Finnair's growing Airbus A350 fleet enables us to expand our route network both East and West”, says Arunas Skuja, Finnair's General Manager for Eastern Europe and Baltic States. “New destinations and added frequencies to already operated Asian routes bring a wider choice and more flexibility also for our Polish customers, whether traveling on business or for leisure.”
The new flights are available for sale on www.finnair.com.
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Finnair flies between Asia, Europe and North America with an emphasis on fast connections via Helsinki, carrying more than nine million passengers annually and connecting 17 cities in Asia with more than 60 destinations in Europe. The airline, a pioneer in sustainable flying, is the European launch customer of the next-generation, eco-smart Airbus A350 XWB aircraft and is the first airline listed in the Leadership Index of the worldwide Carbon Disclosure Project. The only Nordic carrier with a 4-star Skytrax ranking, Finnair has also won the World Airline Award for Best Airline Northern Europe for the past seven years running. Finnair is a member of oneworld, the alliance of the world's leading airlines committed to providing the highest level of service and convenience to frequent international travellers.
