Finnair is getting ready for a busy summer 2025 season, as it turns its eyes across the Atlantic, as well as Asia
The airline is planning to add frequency to US destinations Chicago, Dallas, Seattle and Los Angeles, as well as to Nagoya and Osaka in Japan and Shanghai in China for the summer season of 2025.
USA, USA, USA!
Let’s start with the windy city, with Chicago obtaining a daily service (seven flights a week), uplifting the current service.
Dallas-Fort Worth will gain a major upgrade, with hub-to-hub traffic, with 11 flights a week between Finnair’s and American Airlines hub. This is five more flights than served in Summer 2024 (up from six to 11).
In addition, both Seattle and Los Angeles will get two additional weekly frequencies.
Asia Uplifts
Finnair is planning additional capacity to Japan and China for Summer 2025. Next summer Finnair will fly daily to Osaka, which hosts the World Expo 2025.
The route to Nagoya will also see an uplift, with four flights a week (up from the current three flights a week). It seems Nagoya is a success after reopening the route last year.
Both Nagoya and Osaka will allow Finnair’s passengers to easily explore central Japan without too much of a train ride.
Finally, Finnair will also add one weekly flight to Shanghai in China, flying there four times per week during the summer season 2025.
In Quotes
Finnair’s Chief Revenue Officer Christine Rovelli said:
“Increasing our capacity to the United States brings our customers excellent connectivity to North America and beyond. Customers can connect via Dallas and Chicago to our partner American Airlines’ extensive network in North and South America, while Seattle and Los Angeles offer a gateway to for example other parts of the West Coast and Hawaii, through our partners American Airlines and Alaska Airlines”.
Deploying where there is demand… and strength
With both daily services to Chicago and 11 flights a week to Dallas, Finnair is trying to build its connecting traffic – both through its hubs, as well as its partner’s hubs, directing the aircraft to where they can make money.
Sadly, Asia remains comparatively weak. Whilst it is welcome that there are uplifts for Nagoya and Osaka – big boosts for the Central Japan region – China remains as soft as it has been, with the route still not economical to turn into a daily service.
With the short-cut over Russia still closed to Finnair (as well as other European carriers), Finnair will have to look west to maintain its balance sheet.
Let’s just hope they can improve to soft product in the meantime to suit these routes.
Yes. Still playing catchup.
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