Oh, I agree travellers with infants are a very small part of the market. They won't make/break any route. I just wanted to point out that the much hated seat arrangement of "old-j" in A330 has its advatages. BTW, there were at least 3 infants in the 30 seat J cabin on my last flight.

But for an asian strategy to work, you must appeal to the Asians. And Finnair's asian strategy is pretty much a China strategy. At least as it has been outlined as such to investors the last few years. They show a map with a line where AY has the competetive edge north of that line. And it pretty much follows the southern seaboard of China.

So with CA connecting ARN and CPH to all the SK destinations GOT, OSL, MMX, HEL, UME and so on, and offers connections to just about any city in China, then in my mind it must be a threat to that strategy.