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Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

FINNAIR'S TRAFFIC GREW IN NOVEMBER


FINNAIR PLC   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE   8 December 2010 AT 14:00 
In November, Finnair's traffic grew by 7% compared with the corresponding month 
last year. Scheduled traffic grew by 17%. The comparison figure is exceptionally
low due to a two-day strike by pilots in November 2009. The lower growth figure 
for traffic overall is due to a 22% decline in leisure traffic. Leisure flight  
capacity has been cut to correspond with the fall in demand.                    
In January-November, scheduled traffic grew by 5% and traffic overall declined  
by 1.5%. Growth has fluctuated strongly throughout the year. In the first       
quarter, development was negative, but from the spring demand began to rise. Of 
the traffic segments, Asian traffic is still growing at more than 10%.          
The passenger load factor fell in November by just over 2%. Taking the year as a
whole, aircraft flew slightly fuller than last year. The passenger load factor  
for traffic overall in January-November was 77%, for Asian traffic 82%.         
In cargo traffic, Finnair has shown impressive growth figures, above all due to 
the cargo aircraft operation launched in May, but also due to a recovery in     
cargo demand, particularly in Asia. In November, Finnair carried 46% more cargo 
than a year earlier. Growth in the amount of cargo carried in the holds of      
aircraft was 16% in November.                                                   

The arrival punctuality of Finnair flights in November was 80.8%, which is 1.3  
percentage points better than last year. The arrival punctuality of scheduled   
flights was 82%.                                                                

FINNAIR'S TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE November 2010                                     

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|                                  | November | %-CHANG | January-No | %-CHANG |
|                                  |     2010 |       E |  vember 10 |       E |
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| TOTAL TRAFFIC                    |          |         |            |         |
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| Passengers 1000                  |    580,5 |    14,7 |    6 713,3 |    -2,2 |
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| Available seat kilometres mill   |  2 141,1 |    10,2 |   23 410,6 |    -3,0 |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres     |  1 522,1 |     6,9 |   18 000,4 |    -1,5 |
| mill                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passenger load factor %          |     71,1 |  -2,2 p |       76,9 |   1,2 p |
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| Cargo tonnes total               | 11 944,8 |    45,8 |  113 654,7 |    38,4 |
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| Available tonne kilometres mill  |    332,6 |    16,0 |    3 519,3 |    -2,5 |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill    |    209,1 |    19,0 |    2 302,1 |     9,3 |
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| Overall load factor %            |     62,9 |   1,6 p |       65,4 |   7,1 p |
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| SCHEDULED TOTAL                  |          |         |            |         |
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| Passengers 1000                  |    516,9 |    20,5 |    5 889,0 |     1,2 |
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| Available seat kilometres mill   |  1 805,4 |    19,6 |   19 734,1 |     2,7 |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres     |  1 236,1 |    17,0 |   14 791,2 |     5,0 |
| mill                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passenger load factor %          |     68,5 |  -1,5 p |       75,0 |   1,7 p |
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| EUROPE                           |          |         |            |         |
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| Passengers 1000                  |    271,7 |    14,9 |    3 395,8 |    -0,2 |
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| Available seat kilometres mill   |    614,4 |    20,0 |    7 040,2 |    -0,2 |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres     |    352,7 |    14,5 |    4 678,0 |    -0,6 |
| mill                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passenger load factor %          |     57,4 |  -2,7 p |       66,4 |  -0,2 p |
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| NORTH ATLANTIC                   |          |         |            |         |
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| Passengers 1000                  |      9,7 |    -2,8 |      139,5 |    -9,6 |
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| Available seat kilometres mill   |     89,2 |    -0,3 |    1 152,2 |    -6,4 |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres     |     64,1 |    -2,8 |      920,8 |    -9,6 |
| mill                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passenger load factor %          |     71,9 |  -1,9 p |       79,9 |  -2,8 p |
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| ASIA                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passengers 1000                  |    103,6 |    18,7 |    1 174,0 |    10,6 |
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| Available seat kilometres mill   |    977,4 |    19,2 |   10 459,8 |     6,3 |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres     |    756,8 |    19,7 |    8 575,9 |    11,2 |
| mill                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passenger load factor %          |     77,4 |   0,3 p |       82,0 |   3,6 p |
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| DOMESTIC                         |          |         |            |         |
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| Passengers 1000                  |    131,9 |    38,5 |    1 179,7 |    -1,9 |
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| Available seat kilometres mill   |    124,4 |    41,4 |    1 081,8 |    -1,3 |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres     |     62,6 |    23,8 |      616,6 |    -4,9 |
| mill                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passenger load factor %          |     50,3 |  -7,1 p |       57,0 |  -2,2 p |
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| LEISURE TRAFFIC                  |          |         |            |         |
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| Passengers 1000                  |     63,6 |   -17,3 |      824,3 |   -20,7 |
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| Available seat kilometres mill   |    335,7 |   -22,7 |    3 676,6 |   -25,3 |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres     |    286,0 |   -22,2 |    3 209,2 |   -23,4 |
| mill                             |          |         |            |         |
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| Passenger load factor %          |     85,2 |   0,5 p |       87,3 |   2,2 p |
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| CARGO TRAFFIC                    |          |         |            |         |
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| Cargo scheduled traffic total    |  9 326,6 |    16,1 |   98 180,4 |    22,7 |
| tonnes                           |          |         |            |         |
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| Europe tonnes                    |  2 019,8 |    28,5 |   20 148,7 |    17,9 |
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| North Atlantic tonnes            |    697,2 |     3,9 |    7 654,3 |    25,7 |
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| Asia tonnes                      |  6 387,4 |    14,4 |   68 257,3 |    25,7 |
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| Domestic tonnes                  |    222,1 |     6,8 |    2 120,1 |   -15,4 |
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| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes     |     48,1 |   -68,8 |    1 112,5 |    -1,6 |
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| Cargo flights tonnes             |  2 570,1 |    -    |   14 361,8 |  1356,6 |
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| Cargo tonnes total               | 11 944,8 |    45,8 |  113 654,7 |    38,4 |
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| Available tonne kilometres* mill |     99,2 |    52,4 |      935,1 |    19,8 |
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| Revenue tonne kilometres mill    |     72,7 |    51,1 |      689,2 |    47,0 |
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| Cargo load factor* %             |     73,2 |  -0,6 p |       73,7 |  13,6 p |
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| - North-Atlantic cargo load      |     97,5 |   3,7 p |       87,5 |  27,2 p |
| factor* %                        |          |         |            |         |
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| - Asia cargo load factor* %      |     90,4 |   0,4 p |       88,6 |  17,1 p |
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- * = 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                                                                      

Next release on traffic statistics will be released on 8 January 2010.          

Finnair Plc                                                                     
Communications                                                                  
8 December 2010                                                                 

Taneli Hassinen                                                                 
VP Financial Communications and Investor Relations                              
Tel. +358 9 818 4976                                                            

Additional information:                                                         
Mr. Christer Haglund, SVP Corporate Communications, tel. +358 9 818 4007        
Mr. Taneli Hassinen, VP Financial Communications and Investor Relations, tel.   
+358 9 818 4976                                                                 
Mr. Antero Lahtinen, Managing Director, Finnair Cargo, tel. +358 9 818 5400