Finnair to sell more Indian destinations through Kingfisher

New Delhi: Finnair, which flies daily between Helsinki and New Delhi, is looking forward to selling more Indian destinations through One World partner Kingfisher Airlines, but in the long-term wants to launch its own direct services to other metros.
With Kingfisher Airlines joining the One World airline alliance, Finnair, which started services to India in 2006, can offer its passengers onward connectivity to destinations such as Mumbai, Chennai or any other city that the Indian carrier flies to, Finnair's India sub-continent director Kari Stalbow said here.
Under the present bilateral air services agreement between India and Finland, Finnair can operate daily services to three Indian cities.
Finnair discontinued services on the Mumbai route in April 2008 due to poor demand for flights originating from Helsinki. Much before the Icelandic ash clouds hit the airline industry and even before the 2008 global economic crisis, Finnair was looking at covering a third city in India. It can now offer those routes through One World partner Kingfisher Airlines.
Finnair can now sell other Indian destinations through Kingfisher. So, in the short-term the airline is not looking at adding new destinations. But the long-term plan is to offer direct services to more Indian cities, as part of a plan to carry traffic between India and the US, Stalbow said.
27/06/10 PTI/Economic Times

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