2008-03-10 08:08:22 CET

2008-03-10 08:09:09 CET


REGULATED INFORMATION

Finnish English
Finnair Oyj - Company Announcement

INDIA ENGINE FOR FINNAIR GROWTH


Finnair's Asian traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, grew 20.6% compared  
to February of the previous year. Number of passengers carried on Finnair's     
Asian flights in February was 93 200, which is 17.0% more than a year ago.      
Additional capacity was directed to the Mumbai and Delhi routes last year.      
Finnair scheduled traffic altogether increased by 15.2% compared to February    
last year. Number of passengers carried was 536 368, which is 5.2% more than in 
February 2007.                                                                  

Passenger load factor was 67.8%, 3.0 percentage points lower than last year. The
passenger load factor in February was affected more strongly by the Chinese New 
Year than Finnish winter holidays which demonstrates the growing significance of
Asian traffic in Finnair's traffic performance.                                 

Finnair traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, increased by 17.3% in        
February, while the capacity was up by 20.3%, resulting in a passenger load     
factor of 74.8% or 2.0 points lower than last year. Leisure flights' passenger  
load factor was the same as the previous year, 94.0%. All Finnair Group airlines
altogether transported 647 975 passengers, which is 7.7% more than a year ago.  

Finnair's Tallinn-based subsidiary Aero AS ended operations on 6 January 2008.  
Aero figures are respectively included in Finnair Group total figures. In July  
2007 Finnair sold its Stockholm-based subsidiary airline FlyNordic and its      
traffic performance is no longer reported as part of Finnair Group statistics.  
For better comparison, equivalent figures for last year have been adjusted      
accordingly.                                                                    

Arrival punctuality of scheduled flights was 68.9%, which was 7.1 points lower  
than in February 2007. Including leisure flights arrival punctuality was 65.9%  
(-8.0 p.p).                                                                     


Scheduled traffic                                                               
In scheduled traffic (international + domestic) revenue passenger kilometres    
increased by 15.2%. The change in capacity was 20.3%. Passenger load factor was 
67.8%, 3.0 percentage points lower than last year.                              

In scheduled international traffic, total number of passengers was up by 12.7%. 
Capacity in ASKs was 22.9%, while RPKs increased by 16.9%.                      

In European scheduled traffic, ASKs increased by 19.8%, and as RPKs increased by
13.8%, the passenger load factor was 60.2%, down 3.2 points from previous year. 

In North Atlantic scheduled traffic, capacity decreased by 6.0%. Change in RPKs 
was -3.2%, and passenger load factor for February was 76.1%, 2.2 points higher  
than previous year.                                                             

In Asian scheduled traffic, capacity increase was 27.9%. The passenger traffic  
was up by 20.6%. Passenger load factor was 73.7%, 4.5 percentage points down.   

Domestic scheduled traffic decreased by 2.4% on a capacity decrease of 2.0%.    
Passenger load factor decreased by 0.2 percentage points to 60.1%.              

Leisure traffic                                                                 
ASKs for leisure traffic increased in February by 20.5%, and RPKs increased by  
21.8%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 94.9%, 1.0 points highwer than   
last year.                                                                 

Cargo                                                                           
Cargo traffic increased by 17.2% in terms of cargo tonnes carried. Growth in    
scheduled traffic was 22.6%. Increase in Asian traffic was 35.0%. Volume in     
European traffic increased by 4.7%. In North-Atlantic traffic cargo volume      
increased by 4.3%. Cargo traffic carried on chartered cargo flights decreased by
43.4%. The cargo load factor in the Far Eastern traffic was 71.2% and in the    
North Atlantic traffic 82.3%.                                                   

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|                               |   Feb08   | %-CHANG | Jan08-Feb0 |        %- |
|                               |           |       E |          8 |    CHANGE |
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| TOTAL TRAFFIC                 |           |         |            |           |
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| Passengers  1000              |     648,0 |     7,7 |    1 278,6 |       6,0 |
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| Available seat-kilometres     |   2 372,8 |    20,3 |    4 882,4 |      19,5 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres  |   1 774,5 |    17,3 |    3 615,9 |      17,5 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Passenger load factor %       |      74,8 |  -2,0 p |       74,1 |    -1,3 p |
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| Cargo tonnes toatal           |   7 988,1 |    17,2 |   16 007,0 |      16,4 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres    |     348,2 |    18,3 |      726,8 |      18,3 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill |     204,0 |    18,8 |      413,7 |      18,7 |
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| Overall load factor %         |      58,6 |   0,2 p |       56,9 |     0,2 p |
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| SCHEDULED TOTAL               |           |         |            |           |
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| Passengers  1000              |     536,4 |     5,2 |    1 059,2 |       3,4 |
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| Available seat-kilometres     |   1 761,1 |    20,3 |    3 647,0 |      19,5 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres  |   1 193,8 |    15,2 |    2 446,7 |      16,2 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Passenger load factor %       |      67,8 |  -3,0 p |       67,1 |    -1,9 p |
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| EUROPE                        |           |         |            |           |
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| Passengers  1000              |     283,6 |    11,9 |      556,7 |       9,9 |
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| Available seat-kilometres     |     637,6 |    19,8 |    1 281,9 |      18,0 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres  |     384,0 |    13,8 |      744,2 |      12,2 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Passenger load factor %       |      60,2 |  -3,2 p |       58,1 |    -3,0 p |
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| NORTH ATLANTIC                |           |         |            |           |
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| Passengers  1000              |       7,3 |    -3,2 |       17,1 |       0,5 |
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| Available seat-kilometres     |      63,3 |    -6,0 |      145,2 |      -2,4 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres  |      48,2 |    -3,2 |      113,2 |       0,5 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Passenger load factor %       |      76,1 |   2,2 p |       78,0 |     2,3 p |
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| ASIA                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Passengers  1000              |      93,2 |    16,9 |      196,6 |      18,5 |
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| Available seat-kilometres     |     912,0 |    27,9 |    1 933,6 |      27,9 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres  |     672,5 |    20,6 |    1 423,8 |      23,4 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Passenger load factor %       |      73,7 |  -4,5 p |       73,6 |    -2,7 p |
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| DOMESTIC                      |           |         |            |           |
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| Passengers  1000              |     152,3 |   -10,0 |      288,7 |     -13,7 |
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| Available seat-kilometres     |     148,2 |    -2,0 |      286,3 |      -5,8 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue pax-kilometres mill   |      89,1 |    -2,4 |      165,5 |      -5,8 |
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| Passenger load factor %       |      60,1 |  -0,2 p |       57,8 |    -0,0 p |
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| LEISURE TRAFFIC               |           |         |            |           |
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| Passengers  1000              |     111,6 |    21,5 |      219,3 |      20,4 |
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| Available seat-kilometres     |     611,7 |    20,5 |    1 235,4 |      19,4 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue passenger kilometres  |     580,7 |    21,8 |    1 169,2 |      20,4 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Passenger load factor %       |      94,9 |   1,0 p |       94,6 |     0,8 p |
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| CARGO TRAFFIC                 |           |         |            |           |
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| Cargo scheduled traffic total |   7 638,0 |    22,6 |   15 328,8 |      22,4 |
| tonnes                        |           |         |            |           |
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| Europe tonnes                 |   1 708,7 |     4,7 |    3 529,4 |       7,0 |
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| North Atlantic tonnes         |     465,0 |     4,3 |      984,8 |       0,0 |
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| Asia tonnes                   |   5 214,8 |    35,0 |   10 268,6 |      34,6 |
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| Domestic tonnes               |     249,4 |   -14,1 |      546,0 |     -10,9 |
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| Cargo leisure traffic tonnes  |      39,6 |     8,1 |       71,8 |     -12,5 |
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| Scheduled cargo charter       |     310,5 |   -43,4 |      606,4 |     -47,1 |
| tonnes                        |           |         |            |           |
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| Cargo tonnes total            |   7 988,1 |    17,2 |   16 007,0 |      16,4 |
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| Available tonne-kilometres*   |      75,4 |    19,4 |      157,4 |      18,0 |
| mill                          |           |         |            |           |
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| Revenue tonne-kilometres mill |      45,0 |    24,1 |       89,7 |      23,0 |
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| Cargo load factor* %          |      59,7 |   2,3 p |       57,0 |     2,3 p |
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p= percentage points                                                            
Definitions to the terms used:                                                  
Change % refers to the change of the figures of the previous year               
Revenue passenger kilometres: Number of revenue passengers carried, multiplied  
by kilometres flown.                                                            
Available passenger kilometres: Total number of seats available, multiplied by  
the number of kilometres flown.                                                 
Available tonne kilometres: Number of tonnes of capacity for carriage of        
passengers, cargo and mail, multiplies by kilometres flown.                     
Cabin factor: Share of revenue passenger kilometres of available passenger      
kilometres.                                                                     
Overall load factor: Share of revenue tonne kilometres of available tonne       
kilometres.                                                                     

Next release on traffic statistics will be released on April 10, 2008.          

Finnair Oyj                                                                     
Communications                                                                  
March 10, 2008                                                                  

Taneli Hassinen                                                                 
VP Financial Communications and Investor Relations                              
Tel. +358 9 818 4976                                                            

For further information please contact:                                         

Mr. Lasse Heinonen. SVP & CFO. tel. +358 9 818 4950                             
Mr. Taneli Hassinen. VP Financial Communications and Investor Relations. tel.   
+358 9 818 4976