Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

August 2011 Traffic Performance

FINNAIR PLC   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE   8 September 2011 AT 09:00

In August 2011, Finnair traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres rose
by 11.1% as the overall capacity grew by 13.3% compared with August 2010.
Finnair's Asian traffic capacity measured in Available Seat Kilometres grew by
28.7% and traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres increased by 20.3%. 

“In August, leisure travel continued at a high level, which improved passenger
load factors in intra-European and leisure traffic. Holiday travellers also
improved the load factors on North American flights. In Asian traffic,
passenger load factors decreased due to lower-than-average business travel
demand. Travel demand from Japan to Europe has almost returned to its earlier
levels, and load factors are good on our routes to Japan. Travel demand from
Europe to Japan, however, is recovering at a clearly lower pace,” says Finnair
CFO Erno Hildén. 

The capacity change in Finnair's leisure traffic results from the fact that
from the beginning of the summer season, some of the previous leisure flights
have been operated as scheduled services. A corresponding traffic change can be
seen as growth in the European and North American figures. 

Cargo capacity grew by 27.8% and traffic by revenue tonne kilometres grew by
18.3% compared with August 2010. 

In August, the arrival punctuality of Finnair flights returned to the last
year's level: 90.4% (90.1%) of all flights arrived on schedule. In scheduled
traffic the arrival punctuality was 90.8% (90.8%). 



FINNAIR'S TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE August 2011

                                      August  %-CHANG    January-August  %-CHANG
                                        2011        E              2011        E
TOTAL TRAFFIC                                                                   
Passengers 1000                        699,8      8,6           5 385,8     11,6
Available seat kilometres mill       2 502,4     13,3          19 584,2     15,7
Revenue passenger kilometres         1 923,5     11,1          14 497,1     10,1
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                 76,9   -1,5 p              74,0   -3,8 p
Cargo tonnes total                  12 818,0     15,0          94 472,8     22,2
Available tonne kilometres mill        394,9     16,9           3 024,3     20,4
Revenue tonne-kilometres mill          252,6     13,3           1 880,3     14,3
Overall load factor %                   64,0   -2,0 p              62,2   -3,4 p
SCHEDULED TOTAL                                                                 
Passengers 1000                        651,8     13,1           4 876,2     15,8
Available seat kilometres mill       2 368,0     21,7          17 264,4     22,1
Revenue passenger kilometres         1 801,9     18,9          12 426,3     16,1
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                 76,1   -1,8 p              72,0   -3,7 p
EUROPE                                                                          
Passengers 1000                        379,7      9,2           2 759,2     12,9
Available seat kilometres mill         773,6      7,7           5 759,6     15,0
Revenue passenger kilometres           524,7     10,5           3 860,2     13,8
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                 67,8    1,7 p              67,0   -0,7 p
NORTH ATLANTIC                                                                  
Passengers 1000                         23,7     48,9             136,0     31,5
Available seat kilometres mill         181,7     49,4           1 098,6     29,9
Revenue passenger kilometres           156,3     48,8             897,6     31,5
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                 86,0   -0,3 p              81,7    1,0 p
ASIA                                                                            
Passengers 1000                        142,6     16,8             965,9     14,0
Available seat kilometres mill       1 318,3     28,7           9 454,1     25,3
Revenue passenger kilometres         1 070,9     20,3           7 156,2     15,7
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                 81,2   -5,7 p              75,7   -6,3 p
FINLAND                                                                         
Passengers 1000                        105,8     17,1           1 015,2     24,1
Available seat kilometres mill          94,4     15,8             952,1     27,1
Revenue passenger kilometres            50,1     10,9             512,3     15,5
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                 53,1   -2,4 p              53,8   -5,4 p
LEISURE TRAFFIC                                                                 
Passengers 1000                         48,0    -29,5             509,6    -17,0
Available seat kilometres mill         134,4    -48,7           2 319,9    -16,5
Revenue passenger kilometres           121,6    -43,5           2 070,8    -15,9
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                 90,5    8,2 p              89,3    0,7 p
CARGO TRAFFIC                                                                   
Cargo scheduled traffic total        9 685,4      3,3          75 110,9      8,1
 tonnes                                                                         
Europetonnes                         1 752,2     -9,6          14 761,3      5,1
North Atlantictonnes                   653,4     -6,2           5 537,8      1,4
Asiatonnes                           7 091,6      8,3          53 321,1      9,9
Domestic tonnes                        188,2     -0,5           1 490,7      0,0
Cargo leisure traffic tonnes             0,5    -99,2             214,9    -77,8
Cargo flights tonnes                 3 132,1     83,6          19 146,9    178,7
Cargo tonnes total                  12 818,0     15,0          94 472,8     22,2
Available tonne kilometres* mill       121,8     27,8             896,8     40,8
Revenue tonne kilometres mill           80,2     18,3             581,4     24,8
Cargo load factor* %                    65,8   -5,3 p              64,8   -8,3 p
- North-Atlantic cargo load             70,9   -7,7 p              78,1   -7,1 p
 factor* %                                                                      
- Asia cargo load factor* %             75,7  -10,7 p              78,2   -8,9 p



- * = Operational calculatory capacity

- Change %: Change compared to the figures of the respective periods in the
previous year (p = percentage points) 

- Available seat kilometres, ASK: Total number of seats available, multiplied
by the number of kilometres flown 

- Revenue passenger kilometres, RPK: Number of revenue passengers carried,
multiplied by kilometres flown 

- Passenger load factor: Share of revenue passenger kilometres of available
seat kilometres 

- Available tonne kilometres, ATK: Number of tonnes of capacity for carriage of
passengers, cargo and mail, multiplied by kilometres flown 

- Revenue tonne kilometres, RTK: Total revenue load consisting of passengers,
cargo and mail, multiplied by kilometres flown 

- Overall load factor: Share of revenue tonne kilometres of available tonne
kilometres 

The next release on traffic statistics will be published on 7 October 2011.



Finnair Plc.
Communications
8 September 2011

Further information:
Erno Hildén, Chief Financial Officer,
tel. +358 9 818 8550

Arja Suominen, Senior Vice President, Communications and Corporate
Responsibility 
tel. +358 9 818 4028

Kati Kaksonen, Investor Relations Officer
tel. +358 9 818 2780