Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

SANNA AHONEN TO BECOME FINNAIR'S VP, CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT

FINNAIR PLC STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 31.1.2011 AT 14.30

Sanna Ahonen has been appointed to the position of the Finnair Group's Vice
President, Corporate Development, as of 7 March 2011. Her main field of
responsibility will be developing the Group's processes and coordinating
information technology and strategy projects. "In Finnair we have a number of significant change projects under way, and it
is extremely important for our business that they are properly coordinated. In
her career to date, Sanna Ahonen has shown herself to be highly competent in
the implementation of extensive change projects as well as in business
development and change management. I am delighted that we have been able to
strengthen Finnair's management in this way," says Finnair's President & CEO
Mika Vehviläinen. 

Ahonen joins Finnair from Nokia Siemens Networks. Vice President, Corporate
Development is a new position, and Ahonen will report to President & CEO Mika
Vehviläinen. 

Finnair Plc
Communications
31.1.2011

Taneli Hassinen
Vice President, Financial Communications and Investor Relations
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