Within Finland, Finnair is currently operating in about 15 destinations. Finnair operates along almost 60 destinations across the world including the long-haul routes to New Delhi, Beijing, Bangkok, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York with its wide-bodied Airbus. In addition to these, Finnair operates leisure flights to various vacation spots across the globe, such as in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, South America, South East-Asia and Canary Islands with Boeing 737s.
Finnair recently started long-haul flights between Helsinki and New Delhi three-times a week and for this it has made use of a MD-11airliner which has got both economy and business class seats. The Indian Sales Director of Finnair Ms Taina Tornstrom has also expressed the plans by Finnair to offer daily flights to New Delhi from October this year. These regular flights operated by Finnair would offer easy and quick connections to various parts in Europe. Only after the initiation of the daily flights to New Delhi by Finnair, decisions would be made by it to operate flights to other Indian cities like Mumbai or Chennai. Finnair has tied up with various Indian airline companies like Indian Airlines and Air India and is at present expecting consent for a tie-up from Kingfisher.
Finnair provides frequent-flyer partnerships with a number of airlines comprising American Airlines, British Airways, Japan Airlines, Qantas and Cathay Pacific. The frequent-flyer plan by Finnair allows its passengers to achieve points on the basis of the type and class of the flights which they have opted for. In fact, Finnair offers excellent membership tiers including Junior, Basic, Platinum, Gold and Silver.
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