Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

April 2011 Traffic Performance

Japan, North Africa and Middle East effects evident in April demand, ash
affected last year's comparison figures 

FINNAIR PLC   STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE   MAY 9, 2011 AT 09:00



The situation in Japan had an adverse effect on the Asian traffic demand in
April. 

“Overall load factors remained at the previous month's level due, among other
things, to the prolongation of the Japan situation. Uncertainty concerning
Japan significantly reduced demand from Europe to Japan in April. In leisure
traffic, the situation in Tunisia and Egypt had a relatively stronger impact
even than in March, because the intention had been to continue cancelled flight
series over Easter, and Easter took place this year at the end of April,” says
Finnair CFO Erno Hildén. 

In preparation for expected growth in long-haul traffic, the average aircraft
size was increased in narrow-body traffic by flying some of the services
operated with the Embraer fleet with larger Airbus aircraft. Finnair's 11th
Embraer 190 entered service on April 1, 2011. With demand being weaker than
expected, these factors had an adverse effect on load factors in European and
domestic traffic. 

The closure of European airspace due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland halted
all Finnair traffic for a week In April last year. Neither month therefore
represents the normal situation, so sensible comparison of figures is
challenging. 

The summer season began in Finnair's flight traffic on March 27, 2011. During
April, scheduled flights were launched to Nice, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Krakow and
Venice. Additional frequencies were also added on the Gdansk and Stuttgart
routes. The Nice service was previously operated as a leisure flight. 

The arrival punctuality of Finnair's flights remained good in April; 86.5%
(87%) of all flights arrived on schedule. The arrival punctuality of scheduled
flights was 86.9% (88.6%). 



FINNAIR'S TRAFFIC PERFORMANCE April 2011



                                      April  %-CHANGE    January-April  %-CHANGE
                                       2011                       2011          
TOTAL TRAFFIC                                                                   
Passengers 1000                       654,9      48,2          2 539,9      11,3
Available seat kilometres mill      2 362,9      42,7          9 716,2      18,3
Revenue passenger kilometres        1 636,6      37,8          6 975,8       8,3
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                69,3    -2,5 p             71,8    -6,6 p
Cargo tonnes total                 11 122,5      52,8         45 569,0      41,4
Available tonne kilometres mill       360,1      51,0          1 492,8      26,7
Revenue tonne-kilometres mill         215,4      42,7            903,2      17,5
Overall load factor %                  59,8    -3,4 p             60,5    -4,7 p
SCHEDULED TOTAL                                                                 
Passengers 1000                       607,4      54,9          2 262,3      14,2
Available seat kilometres mill      2 122,3      48,9          8 083,8      23,4
Revenue passenger kilometres        1 450,0      44,0          5 516,2      11,8
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                68,3    -2,3 p             68,2    -7,1 p
EUROPE         
Passengers 1000                       343,8      58,5          1 191,0      12,0
Available seat kilometres mill        745,9      53,7          2 642,5      19,4
Revenue passenger kilometres          498,6      61,2          1 644,0      12,3
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                66,8     3,1 p             62,2    -3,9 p
NORTH ATLANTIC                                                                  
Passengers 1000                        14,2      42,6             48,9      17,5
Available seat kilometres mill        109,1      16,4            420,1      15,4
Revenue passenger kilometres           93,6      42,7            322,8      17,5
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                85,8    15,8 p             76,8     1,4 p
ASIA                                                                            
Passengers 1000                       106,9      33,7            440,7      10,1
Available seat kilometres mill      1 119,7      47,0          4 433,4      26,0
Revenue passenger kilometres          781,0      34,1          3 236,8      10,8
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                69,8    -6,7 p             73,0   -10,0 p
DOMESTIC                                                                        
Passengers 1000                       142,5      66,8            581,7      22,3
Available seat kilometres mill        147,7      74,4            587,7      30,2
Revenue passenger kilometres           76,9      55,5            312,6      14,2
 mill                                 
Passenger load factor %                52,1    -6,3 p             53,2    -7,5 p
LEISURE TRAFFIC                                                                 
Passengers 1000                        47,5      -4,6            277,6      -7,6
Available seat kilometres mill        240,6       4,4          1 632,5      -2,1
Revenue passenger kilometres          186,6       3,2          1 459,6      -3,0
 mill                                                                           
Passenger load factor %                77,6    -1,0 p             89,4    -0,8 p
CARGO TRAFFIC                                                                   
Cargo scheduled traffic total       9 234,6      28,1         36 395,3      15,3
 tonnes                                                                         
Europe tonnes                       1 812,9      41,0          7 384,1      23,4
North Atlantic tonnes                 776,1      15,0          2 894,8       9,9
Asia tonnes                         6 464,0      26,3         25 346,2      14,2
Domestic tonnes                       181,6      36,7            770,2       2,6
Cargo leisure traffic tonnes            9,5     -86,3            210,7     -68,4
Cargo flights tonnes                1 878,4         -          8 963,1         -
Cargo tonnes total                 11 122,5      52,8         45 569,0      41,4
Available tonne kilometres* mill      102,3      82,1            438,8      66,6
Revenue tonne kilometres mill          68,9      54,8            278,2      45,4
Cargo load factor* %                   67,3   -11,9 p             63,4    -9,3 p
- North-Atlantic cargo load            90,5    -3,9 p             86,5    -4,7 p
 factor* %                                                                      
- Asia cargo load factor* %            80,3   -14,9 p             78,5    -6,9 p



- * = 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 



The next traffic statistics will be published on 7 June 2011.



Finnair Plc
Communications
9.5.2011



Further information:

Erno Hilden, Chief Financial Officer
tel. +358 9 818 8550

Arja Suominen, SVP Corporate Communications
tel. +358 9 818 4028

Kati Kaksonen, Investor Relations Officer
tel. +358 9 818 2780