Originally Posted by
ffay005
That's because I believe the airshow maps show the most direct route to the destination from wherever the plane is. Usually the map that you can open from the Nordic Sky portal shows the real (intended) routing.
So, AY141 was scheduled 16:20->7:35 and real times were 16:49->9:08. If AY got their act together at HEL with all the doc checks, this would really mean just a one-hour delay. Not impossible at all.
Yes it was surprisingly little that hour…but one hour more sustainable starving onboard.
Originally Posted by
r2d2
Sadly this is the end of an era and a new cold war has begun. No one knows how long it's going to last, but probably at least as long as Mr. Putin is in power. It's probably going to take so long that Finnair's competition will take over the Chinese and Japanese markets and Finnish taxpayers run out of patience funding Finnair.
At least the Chinese will retain their Russian overflight rights, so when China one day opens up, I believe the clever Chinese will take China - EU flights into their own hands and maybe partner with some EU airlines to take care of feeder traffic in Europe. Japan has also had a better relationship with Russia than the EU, so the Japanese airlines might also be able to keep their overflight rights and do a similar move. There Finnair might have some luck if Oneworld partner JAL would choose Finnair as their European feeder airline.
Exact my thinking lately.
And Finland used to have exceptionally good relationship with Russia as well, and now we are throwing it suddenly into a waste bin, and we will be hurt big time badly next.