Pact with Vijay Mallya-led Kingfisher Airlines sees Finnair's Asia traffic look up

Helsinki: Led by growing traffic from Asia, especially India where it has signed an accord with Kingfisher Airlines, as also by leisure travel, Nordic carrier Finnair has reported an 11.1 per cent increase in its scheduled passenger traffic in August.
"Finnair's Asian traffic capacity measured in available seat km grew by 28.7 per cent and traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometres increased by 20.3 per cent," a senior official with the airline said.
The carrier recently added seven more destinations in India to its network, in addition to flying directly to the national capital, in partnership with the Vijay Mallya-led airlines.
"We offer morning connections to Finnair's vast European network of around 60 cities via Delhi and Helsinki which extends to Kingfisher passengers from Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Jaipur and Ahmedabad," said Kari Stolbow, Finnair's India director.
"While Asia has really driven our business, we have particularly seen very good growth in every segment in India. Now we are happy we are for the fact many new passengers from other cities are also using our connection services with Kingfisher," Stolbow told IANS.
12/09/11 IANS/Economic Times

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