Finnair

Benedict Gombocz

Finnair: Background Finland’s flag carrier and biggest airline; headquartered

in Vantaa and its main operating base is Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (Brussels Airport is used as a cargo hub).

Finnair and its subsidiary airlines dominate both domestic and global air travel in Finland.

The Government of Finland, with 55.8% of the shares, is its principal investor.

Fifth oldest airline in the world with continuous operation.

Has frequently been ranked one of the world’s most secure airlines, with no fatal or hull-loss disasters since 1963.

Member of the Oneworld airline alliance.

Carried 8.8 million passengers to more than 60 European and 15 Asian destinations in 2012.

Employs 6,784 people from December 2012.

Finnair: Subsidiaries and associates Two subsidiary companies form Finnair’s cargo business: Finnair Cargo Oy and Finnair Cargo Terminal

Operations Oy.

Both companies have their head offices at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.

Finnair: Head office In 2013, Finnair opened its main office, known as House

of Travel and Transportation (or HOTT), on what was formerly a car park right beside its former head office in Tietotie 11, on the grounds of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.

Construction on HOTT started in July 2011, finishing on time in June 2013.

The old main office had been used since 1994, when it replaced a main office located in Helsinki city centre.

The new mixed-use main office has a total floor space of 70,000 square metres (750,000 sq ft) and 22,400 square meters (241,000 sq ft) of office space.

Finnair: Hubs Helsinki-Vantaa Airport Brussels Airport (Cargo)

Finnair Cargo (MD-11)

Finnair: Destinations Finnair flies to Asia, North America, and an extensive

local network in Europe via its Helsinki-Vantaa base.

The domestic and intra-European flights are operated in cooperation with Flybe Nordic, with an ATR/Embraer fleet.

Finnair: Codeshare agreements Apart from its fellow Oneworld members, Finnair

(since April 2013) has codeshare agreements with these airlines: Aeroflot (SkyTeam)

Air China (Star Alliance)

Air France (SkyTeam)

Bangkok Airways

Belavia

Czech Airlines (SkyTeam)

Flybe Nordic

Icelandair

Rossiya

TAP Portugal (Star Alliance)

Finnair: Finnair A340-300 in Oneworld livery

Finnair: Livery In December 2010, Finnair unveiled a new livery; significant modifications include a redesigned and

bigger lettering on the body, repainting of the engines in white, and reversal of the color scheme for the tail fin with a white background featuring a blue stylized logo.

The tail’s outline was additionally withdrawn.

Finnair: Uniform The previous cabin of Finnair was ranked as the fifth most trendy by the French magazine Bon Voyage.

Ritva-Liisa Pohjalainen designed the current uniform, launching it in December 2011.

Finnair uses codes to specify a crew member rank: one stripe in the sleeve indicates normal cabin attendant and three stripes a purser.

In addition, female pursers have a white vertical stripe on their dresses or blouses.

Finnair requires its cabin crew to wear gloves in both take off and landing for security grounds; female crew need to switch high heels for boots for winter operations.

Finnair A330-300, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Finnair A320-214, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

Finnair A319, Ivalo Airport

Finnair A340-300, Singapore Changi Airport

The End YouTube links:

FinnAir Commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGEeBI6uzE

Finnair safety video A320: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQRFrnbwyAk

HK: Finnair Safety video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZHLlqrkzJY

Finnair safety video 757-200: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFuV-YzOPPY