Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

Finnair Traffic Performance in October 2015

Number of passengers grew 11.2% year-on-year

Finnair Plc     Stock Exchange Release       9 November 2015 at 09:00 EET

In October, Finnair's overall capacity measured in Available Passenger
Kilometres grew by 4.2 per cent and traffic measured in Revenue Passenger
Kilometres grew by 6.8 per cent year-on-year. The passenger load factor
increased by 1.9%-points to 81.4 per cent.

The capacity in Asian traffic decreased in October by 3.1 per cent, while
traffic measured in Revenue Passenger Kilometres increased by 0.1 per cent year
-on-year on the back of high passenger load factor. In particular, the capacity
decrease reflects comfort-improving cabin changes made across the wide-body
fleet last winter and a reduction in Hong Kong frequencies for the winter
season. Meanwhile, the pronounced growth in American traffic from a low base
level reflects the fact that, in contrast with last October when Finnair only
flew to New York, in early October 2015 there were also flights to Chicago and
Toronto, and in late October to Miami.

The capacity in European traffic grew by 4.1 per cent and traffic measured in
Revenue Passenger Kilometres grew by 7.0 per cent year-on-year. The capacity
growth reflects, among other things, the change of certain European charter
flights into scheduled traffic and new summer season routes. Familiarisation
flights on the new A350, which is larger than the regular aircraft in Finnair's
European traffic, contributed temporarily over one percentage point to both
capacity and traffic growth.

At the same time, the growth in domestic traffic is mainly attributed to the
transfer of the flights previously operated at Norra's own commercial risk to
Finnair's purchased traffic. The passenger load factor in domestic traffic
declined by 0.7 percentage points to 63.5 per cent.

In October, the cargo capacity in scheduled traffic measured in Available Tonne
Kilometres grew by 11.0 per cent, and Revenue Tonne Kilometres increased by 3.2
per cent year-on-year. The cargo load factor in scheduled traffic was 58.3 per
cent. The overall cargo figures reflect a structural change from the comparison
period, as Finnair withdrew from the use of leased NGA freighter aircraft
capacity in Asian traffic. In contrast with the previous months, Finnair's
capacity included shared freighter flights with IAG twice a week between
Helsinki and London commencing in mid-September.

In October, 92.9 per cent of all Finnair flights arrived on schedule (92.3).

Traffic statistics for November are published on Wednesday, 9 December 2015.

Finnair Traffic Performance October 2015

                      October 2015  %-Change  Year-to   date 2015  %-Change

Total Traffic
Passengers   1000     933,5         11,2      8 695,4              6,1
Available   seat      2 789,3       4,2       26 709,7             2,1
kilometres mill
Revenue   passenger   2 269,3       6,8       21 668,7             2,4
kilometres mill
Passenger   load      81,4          1,9 p     81,1                 0,3 p
factor %
Cargo   tonnes total  12 653,9      -2,5      108 045,2            -13,8
Available   tonne     404,9         1,6       3 890,5              -1,1
kilometres mill
Revenue   tonne       277,6         0,9       2 590,6              -2,6
-kilometres mill
Overall   load        68,6          -0,5 p    66,6                 -1,0 p
factor %

Europe
Passengers   1000     592,1         8,5       5 472,9              6,2
Available   seat      1 193,2       4,1       10 972,0             5,1
kilometres mill
Revenue   passenger   951,5         7,0       8 659,8              4,5
kilometres mill
Passenger   load      79,7          2,2 p     78,9                 -0,4 p
factor %

North Atlantic
Passengers   1000     24,1          59,6      225,8                18,4
Available   seat      195,0         68,1      1 839,9              22,2
kilometres mill
Revenue   passenger   163,9         63,5      1 556,7              19,4
kilometres mill
Passenger   load      84,1          -2,3 p    84,6                 -2,0 p
factor %

Asia
Passengers   1000     142,9         0,4       1 421,8              -1,4
Available   seat      1 275,0       -3,1      12 736,8             -3,1
kilometres mill
Revenue   passenger   1 073,8       0,1       10 664,9             -1,7
kilometres mill
Passenger   load      84,2          2,6 p     83,7                 1,2 p
factor %

Domestic
Passengers   1000     174,4         27,7      1 575,0              11,8
Available   seat      126,1         28,7      1 160,9              8,3
kilometres mill
Revenue   passenger   80,1          27,3      787,3                10,9
kilometres mill
Passenger   load      63,5          -0,7 p    67,8                 1,6 p
factor %

Cargo Traffic
Cargo   scheduled     10 958,1      4,6       94 406,2             -2,3
traffic total tonnes
Europe   tonnes       2 441,7       11,5      17 820,9             -10,9
North   Atlantic      743,7         37,5      6 675,9              5,9
tonnes
Asia   tonnes         7 593,8       0,1       68 479,0             -0,5
Domestic   tonnes     179,0         8,2       1 430,4              -4,1
Cargo   flights,      1 695,7       -32,3     13 639,0             -52,6
tonnes**
Cargo   tonnes total  12 653,9      -2,5      108 045,2            -13,8
Available   tonne     121,2         0,5       1163,0               -4,0
kilometres* mill
Revenue   tonne       74,6          -6,2      651,9                -15,0
kilometres mill
Available             113,2         11,0      1086,3               10,3
sched.cargo tonne
kms*, mill.
Revenue               65,9          3,2       584,0                -0,8
sched.cargo tonne
kms, mill.
Cargo load   factor*  61,6          -4,3 p    56,1                 -7,2 p
%
-   North-Atlantic    39,7          -4,2 p    39,5                 -12,4 p
cargo load factor* %
- Asia   cargo load   64,8          -2,0 p    58,1                 -4,3 p
factor* %
Scheduled traffic     58,3          -4,4 p    53,8                 -6,0 p
Cargo load factor*,
%

* Operational calculatory capacity

** Including purchased traffic

- 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
FINNAIR PLC
Further information:
Finnair communications, 358 9 818 4020, comms(a)finnair.com

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