Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

MIKA VEHVILÄINEN TO BE FINNAIR'S NEW PRESIDENT & CEO

FINNAIR PLC	STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE	11 NOVEMBER 2009	09.00
The Board of Directors of Finnair Plc has appointed Mika Vehviläinen
M.Sc.(Econ.), 48, as Finnair's President and CEO as of 1 February 2010.
Vehviläinen will join Finnair on 5 January 2010. 

Since 1991 Vehviläinen has been employed by Nokia and is currently Chief
Operating Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks. He has strong experience of sales
and marketing and of strategic management and business development in Asia,
North America and Europe. 
“Finnair is recognised as a quality airline. It has an effective strategy,
which has been proven in practice, and expert personnel. Finnair has all that
it takes to emerge from the hard times as a winner, but this will require
goal-directed development of the business practices. It will be necessary to
improve competitiveness, and management and personnel will have to cooperate
closely in this task,” says Vehviläinen. 
Finnair's current President & CEO Jukka Hienonen will leave his post at the end
of January 2010. 
“During his period as President & CEO, Jukka Hienonen made significant changes
to improve Finnair's competitiveness and he brought a new dynamic to the
management of the company. For this excellent work he deserves thanks. In
accepting the relay baton from Hienonen, Mika Vehviläinen will receive a flying
start to his efforts. Finnair's success will not come for free; hard work will
be needed to achieve it and Vehviläinen is no stranger to this,” says Chairman
of Finnair Plc's Board of Directors Christoffer Taxell. 

INVITATION TO MEDIA CONFERENCE

A media conference will be held on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 11 am, at
Lentäjäntie 3, Vantaa (registration at the reception). The chairman of the
Board, Christoffer Taxell and Mika Vehviläinen will be present. 

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