Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

Finnair Cargo offering more freighter capacity to Shanghai and New York together with World Airways

FINNAIR PLC   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE   7 June 2011 AT 16:00



Finnair Cargo is continuing its growth by launching MD11F all cargo flights to
Shanghai in co-operation with World Airways Inc. and adding frequencies to New
York as from June 15th, 2011. 

The new service New York- Helsinki-Shanghai v.v. is operated twice a week using
World's traffic rights. "We have already achieved recognition among our cargo customers in China and
Europe for Finnair's daily passenger flight service to Shanghai and are now
welcoming our new freighter service. Viewed from Shanghai, the new freighter
services offer connections to Northern Europe and also provide fast services
from Northern Europe to Shanghai. In addition to Shanghai flights more capacity
to New York is welcomed", says Pertti Mero, Vice President Global Sales in
Finnair Cargo. 

Finnair Cargo has earlier announced plans to become a minority shareholder in
Nordic Global Airlines Ltd (NGA), a new all-cargo airline based in Helsinki,
Finland. NGA is planning to start commercial operations later this year. "This is in line with previously announced Finnair plans and reflects the
company's strategy to invest in growth sectors of the airline industry. The
possibility to purchase capacity from Nordic Global Airlines and from World
Airways gives us much needed additional capacity to expand in traditional as
well as in new markets", says Antero J. Lahtinen, Senior Vice President. 

Finnair Cargo web page will provide more information about Finnair cargo and
the new freighter destinations. 



Finnair Plc
Communications
7.6.2011



Further information:

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

Antero Lahtinen, Senior Vice President, Cargo,
tel. +358 9 818 500