With the coming of June 2008, Finnair will be launching direct flights to Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The flights are to come with five weekly frequencies. The new Airbus from Finnair that will operate the direct flights is the long-haul aircraft A340-300. Seoul is to be the eleventh Asian destination for Finnair.
The passengers who will find this service very convenient will be mostly South Koreans, mainly during the summers. This flight route will supposedly boost up the ever-growing Asian network of Finnair and will support the status of Helsinki, as a significant transfer point between Asia and Europe.
Finnair is also scheduled to be the only airline that will fly non-stop from South Korea to northern Europe. Passengers can also avail the fabulous connections from Helsinki to more than forty European cities provided by Finnair.
The good work of expanding the Asian network is made easy with Finnair's long-haul fleet increase and renewal. Finnair's new airbus service will bring in the traffic growth and enable Finnair to develop its Asian route capacity. Finnair will have two more aircrafts of the A340-300 aircraft type next year.
Finnair's Deputy CEO, Henrik Arle is proud to say that Finnair is successful in offering the quickest and shortest possible connections to a majority of European capitals.
There has been an increasing demand for air travel between Europe and South Korea. Korea is now a favorite tourist destination for the Europeans. Not only leisure, but a lot of business trips is also scheduled to take place from the South Korean export companies on this Finnair route.
