Originally Posted by virtualtroy
aword from oneworld: March 2006
March 21, 2006
Finnair to serve Hong Kong non-stop and polish up its Polish schedules: Finnair is improving its schedules between its Helsinki home base and the Hong Kong hub of oneworld partner Cathay Pacific to offer non-stop services during the summer peak, rather than flying via Bangkok, cutting four hours from the journey. The non-stops will operate three times a week between May and July, building to five a week between July and October.
AY introduced this service for a few months last northern summer and I used it to fly MEL-HKG-HEL-ARN, departing late evening out of MEL on QF and connecting to a morning departure out of HKG, arriving HEL mid-afternoon, then Stockholm around 1600 local.
This was a very efficient connection, allowing an afternoon arrival into Europe and thus an easier transition to sleep and time zone adjustment. If similar timings and connections are available I would thoroughly recommend. ^
HEL is also one of the best airports for arrival into Europe with easy and quick connections to most other ports.
With the new J class product coming on-line, this should be a good option.
