New route to LAX, starting spring 2019, three times a week with A350
https://company.finnair.com/en/media...ews?id=3021928
August 21, 2018Finnair to fly new A350 route to Los Angeles in 2019Continuing with its growth strategy, Finnair today announced it will begin flying to Los Angeles, California, as of next spring. Finnair will fly three weekly frequencies to LAX airport as of March 31, 2019. In addition, the new route to Los Angeles will be Finnair’s first US route to be regularly operated with the new Airbus A350 aircraft. Finnair is also making some additions to its summer program for the San Francisco and Chicago route. Both routes will begin in April, and a fourth frequency will be added for San Francisco as of May. With these changes, Finnair will now offer a daily flight to California during the summer season with the new three-weekly flight to Los Angeles and the new fourth weekly service to San Francisco. Los Angeles is best known for its beautiful weather, famous beaches, and as the home of the US television and film industry, including the world-renowned Hollywood neighborhood. It is also one of the largest business travel and cargo hubs in the United States. Thanks to Helsinki’s geographical location, Finnair’s new northern route to Los Angeles will offer competitive and convenient travel times for customers from Scandinavia, the Baltics, Russia, Northern Germany as well as domestic routes in Finland. “We are very happy to expand our North American network and fly a new route to Los Angeles with our Airbus A350,” says Juha Järvinen, Chief Commercial Officer at Finnair. “We opened our route to San Francisco two years ago with tremendous success, proving that California and the West Coast are very popular with our customers. We are confident that this new route to Los Angeles will garner the same level of interest moving forward.” Los Angeles will be Finnair's fifth US destination, along with New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. The approximate flight times are expected to be 11 hours to LAX and 10 hours and 30 minutes to Helsinki. The new route will be operated within the Atlantic joint business between Finnair, American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia. The joint business offers customers additional flight choices, better connections and better pricing on transatlantic routes. Currently, the four airlines operate over 100 daily return flights between Europe and North America. Further information: Finnair Media Desk, +358 9 818 4020, comms(a)finnair.com www.finnair.com, www.company.finnair.com www.twitter.com/Finnair www.facebook.com/finnair www.instagram.com/feelfinnair www.youtube.com/finnair |
Lovely news, hoping for award seats here.
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Happy to hear LAX announced. It doesn't come as a big surprise, but it's been a long wait.
Interesting choice of flight numbers. Traditionally, JFK has had the lowest numbers and it also used to be a sort of flagship route. |
Could be a nice holiday. Fly to LA, drive up to SFO and fly back from there (or other way around). |
FT AY DO Inaugural 001 to LAX?
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Originally Posted by OH-LGG
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FT AY DO Inaugural 001 to LAX?
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This is great news! Only wished this happened 3 years ago when I used to fly to LAX almost every other month though :D
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Excellent news. It's great to see AY increasing also North American destinations LAX long been an "obvious" one lacking their catalogue.
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Originally Posted by niksal
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Could be a nice holiday. Fly to LA, drive up to SFO and fly back from there (or other way around). |
I can see the Asian strategy. Oh wait :D
Will this enable smooth connections to/from HW on AA? |
Originally Posted by Courmisch
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Will this enable smooth connections to/from HW on AA?
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Originally Posted by Courmisch
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I can see the Asian strategy. Oh wait :D
Will this enable smooth connections to/from HW on AA? |
Anyone know what is the points accrual for these ticket types: light, stantard and flexible. Finnair’s point chart and point calculator does not recognize these ticket types. |
Originally Posted by FlyingFinn
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Where are the introductory J offers ?
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