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Old Feb 10, 2011 | 7:17 am
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Södermalm
 
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Originally Posted by MAH4546
There is really no demand. Helsinki-U.S. is a tiny market in the first place, and shrinks incredibly between October and April outside of one market Miami, which has the second largest Finnish ex-pat community in the world after Stockholm and is Helsinki's largest trans-Atlantic O&D market for half the year.

Maybe if AA started getting creative, it would think of MIA-HEL in the winter, and be able to keep the station year-round. I haven't heard of any such plans, but it would be nice.


The Finnish expat community in the Miami area is miniscule, certainly not enough to sustain any type of air service.
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