Finnair to Launch Flights to Gdansk

Gdansk is to become Finnair’s third destination in Poland, adding to services to Warsaw and Krakow. As of April 2007, Finnair will start flights four times a week to the Baltic port city, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, using new Embraer 170 jet aircraft.

- The new route serves both Finnish and Polish business and leisure travelers,” says Finnair’s country sales director Juhani Nuoramo.

- The flights also offer good connections with Finnair’s Asian and New York arrivals and departures. Economic growth in the Gdansk region is among the fastest in Poland, as is reflected in the number of Polish and foreign companies in the area as well as the income level of inhabitants, which is among the highest in the country.”

Gdansk, situated at the mouth of the River Vistula on the southern coast of the Baltic, is the timeless treasure of the historical Pomerania region, with over a millennium of history behind it.

This vibrant city, also known during the days of the Prussian era as Danzig, has a reputation for its status as a Hanseatic League centre with brilliant period architecture.

These days, along with its neighbouring towns of Gdynia and Sopot, it forms part of a conurbation populated by more than a million residents. Sopot is known to Finns, for example, as the venue for a hit music competition, as well as an affordable spa and beach resort.

Flights to Gdansk get under way on 11 April 2007. Departures on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays are at 9.30 from Helsinki, arriving at Gdansk at 10.00. Return flights on those days are at 10.45, for a 13.15 Helsinki arrival. Saturday flights depart from Helsinki at 15.55, arriving at Gdansk at 16.20. Returns depart at 17.00, landing at Helsinki at 19.25.

Finnair doubled its flights to Poland last summer with the launch of the Krakow service and added frequencies to Warsaw, and is now only the third foreign airline serving three destinations in the country.

The popular Krakow flights continue next summer, and business class was reintroduced on Warsaw flights at the beginning of November in response to customer demand.
Source:boarding.no