New and cancelled destinations, major schedule and operational changes
Jan 3, 2020, 6:20 pm
#1486
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum, TK Elite, BT VIP, AA, BA, SK, DL, NT, WB + hotels
Posts: 8,758
What's the widebody daytime situation nowadays? We have two A350s coming in in the morning, one of which will fly to LHR and the other, twice a week in winter, to DXB. In summer, there should be one idle A350, right?
The A330 schedule is more confusing, but there are early morning arrivals from BKK, KIX and PKX, though not daily and not round the year, right? And there's a twice-weekly BRU. How much free A330 capacity is there during the day?
Jan 14, 2020, 7:31 am
#1488
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: BGO (Temporarily HEL)
Programs: AY+ Gold, SK EBG
Posts: 400
This is for feeding (mainly Asian) pax to Lofoten, not local demand. Still a bit of distance from the airport to the main sights out in the islands, but better than doing it through TOS.
Jan 14, 2020, 11:36 am
#1490
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum (oneworld Emerald), Bonvoy/Radisson/Hilton Gold
Posts: 149
BCN 3-4 daily in the summer
Finnair.com is showing increase for BCN at least for summer:
HEL-BCN
07:05-10:05
17:00-20:00
22:30-01:30+1
BCN-HEL
02:15-07:05
11:00-15:50
11:05-16:00
21:25-02:15+1
Something is off, since it’s 3 per day outbound and 4 per day inbound and there is slight variation on the 11ish departures from BCN depending on the day. Also one of the flights is “op by Iberia for Finnair” like MAD.
HEL-BCN
07:05-10:05
17:00-20:00
22:30-01:30+1
BCN-HEL
02:15-07:05
11:00-15:50
11:05-16:00
21:25-02:15+1
Something is off, since it’s 3 per day outbound and 4 per day inbound and there is slight variation on the 11ish departures from BCN depending on the day. Also one of the flights is “op by Iberia for Finnair” like MAD.
Last edited by UpperDeck87K; Jan 14, 2020 at 12:15 pm
Jan 16, 2020, 10:58 am
#1491
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum (oneworld Emerald), Bonvoy/Radisson/Hilton Gold
Posts: 149
Finnair.com is now confirming the lease until March 2023 
:
"We have leased an Airbus A321 aircraft from our oneworld partner Iberia to cover a temporary shortage of aircraft as our operations continue to grow. The aircraft will be used for flights AY1654/3 (Barcelona) and AY1662/1 (Madrid) until March 30, 2023."
:"We have leased an Airbus A321 aircraft from our oneworld partner Iberia to cover a temporary shortage of aircraft as our operations continue to grow. The aircraft will be used for flights AY1654/3 (Barcelona) and AY1662/1 (Madrid) until March 30, 2023."
Finnair.com is showing increase for BCN at least for summer:
HEL-BCN
07:05-10:05
17:00-20:00
22:30-01:30+1
BCN-HEL
02:15-07:05
11:00-15:50
11:05-16:00
21:25-02:15+1
Something is off, since it’s 3 per day outbound and 4 per day inbound and there is slight variation on the 11ish departures from BCN depending on the day. Also one of the flights is “op by Iberia for Finnair” like MAD.
HEL-BCN
07:05-10:05
17:00-20:00
22:30-01:30+1
BCN-HEL
02:15-07:05
11:00-15:50
11:05-16:00
21:25-02:15+1
Something is off, since it’s 3 per day outbound and 4 per day inbound and there is slight variation on the 11ish departures from BCN depending on the day. Also one of the flights is “op by Iberia for Finnair” like MAD.
Jan 17, 2020, 8:32 am
#1492
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Switzerland
Programs: AY+ Platinum, SK Gold, BAEC Silver, airbaltic VIP, Radisson VIP
Posts: 6,532
Finnair in summer 2020 season is launching new seasonal route to Norway, as the airline schedules Helsinki – Bodø route. From 31MAY20 to 13SEP20, NORRA ATR72 aircraft will operate this route once weekly, increasing to two weekly between 13JUL20 and 06AUG20.
AY949 HEL0645 – 0820BOO AT7 7
AY949 HEL1835 – 2010BOO AT7 3
AY950 BOO0855 – 1230HEL AT7 7
AY950 BOO2045 – 0020+1HEL AT7 3
Day 3 operates from 13JUL20 to 06AUG20.
AY949 HEL0645 – 0820BOO AT7 7
AY949 HEL1835 – 2010BOO AT7 3
AY950 BOO0855 – 1230HEL AT7 7
AY950 BOO2045 – 0020+1HEL AT7 3
Day 3 operates from 13JUL20 to 06AUG20.
Jan 17, 2020, 11:21 am
#1494
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: HEL
Programs: AY Platinum, TK Elite, BT VIP, AA, BA, SK, DL, NT, WB + hotels
Posts: 8,758
Jan 17, 2020, 1:21 pm
#1495
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: BGO (Temporarily HEL)
Programs: AY+ Gold, SK EBG
Posts: 400
Another issue is that returning pax on the evening flight from BOO will need an overnight in HEL to go back home/connect anywhere else since latest departure from HEL is AY143 to BKK.
Jan 17, 2020, 4:38 pm
#1496
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Helsinki
Programs: A3 Gold, BA Silver
Posts: 1,014
Could Bodø be some kind of semi-charter destination operated because of some Asian tour operator? It's not very common for AY to open new routes only 4,5 months before inaugural flight and weekly capacity to Bodø is only ~70-140 seats.
Jan 20, 2020, 9:30 am
#1499
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: HEL
Programs: AY+ Silver, SK EB Silver, Flying Blue
Posts: 28
The Barents Observer reports that Finnair is going to resume flights to Murmansk with 4 weeklies this summer:
Source: https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/tr...nsk-and-tromso
Their source is a local newspaper in Murmansk: https://severpost.ru/read/89829/
For Murmansk, Russia’s Arctic capital on the Kola Peninsula, Finnair will fly four times a week this summer with first flight on May 9th, SeverPost reports.
Their source is a local newspaper in Murmansk: https://severpost.ru/read/89829/
Jan 20, 2020, 10:45 am
#1500
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Helsinki-Vantaa APT, Finland
Programs: AY LUMO
Posts: 6,059
Looks like last one is on 28MAR20
So it was not year around destination but almost one year destination.
Last edited by OH-LGG; Jan 20, 2020 at 11:20 am