Several employee unions in
Finnair has approximately 280 flights per day in its normal traffic program, so the vast majority of flights will be cancelled. Finnair targets to operate a handful of flights during the strike and will communicate directly to those customers who have booking on flights that will be flown.
Finnair will implement flight cancellations in its systems one flight at a time, starting from Tuesday morning
During the strike, ground services, such as baggage loading?,? and ?inflight service (e.g. food and drink offerings)?, may be ?affected? and the flights that ?do operate? on those days may be delayed.
'We have already given customers the opportunity to change their travel dates on Finnair flights. From
Due to the large number of cancelled flights and customers, processing the cancellations and rerouting customers takes approximately two days.
'We will do our very best to offer a suitable flight option to as many customers as possible, but the number of alternative flights is limited,' says Paajanen. 'We ask customers to kindly wait for the rerouting from us, as our customer service team is busier than usual and queue times can be long.'
'It is unfortunate that the political strike will affect so many customers' travel. We will work in close collaboration with our partners to ensure that after the strike, our flight operations can again commence as smoothly as possible,' says
Already on
If it is not possible for the customer to change the time of their travel, they can cancel their reservation and apply for a refund for the unused ticket. Customers who have purchased a ticket from Finnair can do this in Manage booking on Finnair's website or by contacting Finnair customer service. If the ticket has not been purchased directly from Finnair, the customer is to contact the travel agency that booked the ticket.
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