Asian Traffic

Finnairs traffic, in passenger kilometres, grew by 3% in July 2010 compared with July the last year.

Growth came from Asian traffic, which was up by more than 11%. The load factor for Asian traffic improved by nearly one percentage point to 85%, with capacity increasing 10% compared with previous year. There were nearly 12% more passengers on Asian flights than in the last July.

"Growth is good in our main strategy area, namely Asia - Europe traffic. We have increased capacity and we will increase it further. Flights will be added to existing destinations and a new destination, Singapore, will be opened next spring," said Finnair's SVP Communications Christer Haglund.