Bangalore, Chennai on our radar: Finnair

Helsinki: Finnair has said that flying from Helsinki to Bangalore and Chennai, where Finnish companies have a large business presence, is part of its expansion plans, besides leveraging from an alliance with Kingfisher Airlines in India.
"Bangalore and Chennai are definitely on our radar...One thing that OneWorld (feels) very important (about) is the quality of our partners... Kingfisher clearly is, from the quality point of view, the airline of choice in India," Finnair CEO Mika Vehvilainen told PTI here.
Kingfisher Airlines was inducted into the global airline OneWorld earlier this year and this would allow partner airlines to sell routes operated by the Indian carrier.
Vehvilainen, however, said that it has no immediate plans to start operations to Bangalore or Chennai. Also, there were no plans in the near-term to resume services to Mumbai.
Finnair has said that it would start daily service between New Delhi and Helsinki from January next year, up from the six flights a week it operates now.
15/09/10 PTI/Economic Times

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