Finnair Oyj - Changes board/management/auditors

ARJA SUOMINEN TO BE FINNAIR'S SVP CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

FINNAIR PLC   CHANGES IN MANAGEMENT   18.2.2011  AT 12:00

Arja Suominen, 52, has been appointed Finnair's Senior Vice President,
Corporate Communications and Corporate Responsibility and also member of
Finnair's Executive Board and Board of Management, as of 14 March 2011.
Suominen joins Finnair from Nokia, where she was most recently Vice President,
Global Media Relations. "Finnair's operational focus is shifting increasingly to the international
market. In addition, we wish to reach our customers and personnel in more
diverse ways than before. Suominen will bring a new kind of expertise to our
communications, because she has long and solid experience of demanding
international corporate communications," says Finnair's President & CEO Mika
Vehviläinen. 

During recent years, Finnair has created a strong position in flight services
between Asia and Europe, and its home base Helsinki has become a key hub in
Asian traffic. "Making a company well known and reaching customers in its main markets are
important in enabling us to achieve our goal of becoming the most desired
option of the quality- and environment-conscious air traveller in the
intercontinental traffic of the northern hemisphere," says Arja Suominen. "In addition to a growing international focus, Finnair also wishes in future to
attend to the needs of its Finnish interest groups. I hope that I can utilise
my earlier expertise to the benefit of a renewing, blue-and-white Finnair."


Finnair Plc
Communications
18.2.2011

Taneli Hassinen
Vice President, Financial Communications and Investor Relations
tel. +358 9 818 4976