Finnair has been forced to cancel flights today (25 November) due to ongoing labour dispute at Posti, the Finnish postal service.
While Finnair is not a party in the dispute, the strike would have major impacts on Finnair flights operations.
The strike will affect several critical services at Helsinki Airport, including ground services such as loading and unloading of aircraft, fueling and push-back of aircraft, as well as Finnair customer services at Helsinki Airport, catering of Finnair flights and Finnair maintenance operations.
Finnair had 377 flights in its traffic program for Monday, and the company expects to be able operate approximately 120 of them.
Jaakko Schildt, chief operating officer at Finnair. “Finnair is not a party in the dispute related to the support strike, however it’s impacts are now seriously disrupting the travel plans of over 20 000 Finnair customers.
“We are extremely sorry for the trouble and concern this situation is causing our customers, and we are doing our best to mitigate the impacts to them. We are working to find suitable reroutings for customers impacted by this, but rerouting such a large number of customers unfortunately takes some time.”