Finnair resumes flights from Tampere, Turku in October

National flag carrier Finnair will resume flight operation from Tampere and Turku in October, said the airline in a press release on Wednesday. The new flights will connect Tampere and Turku with Helsinki again. Tampere and Turku are rapidly growing cities, and we have conducted a continuous dialogue with the regions about the possibilities of providing smoother connections to the world. The flights, which will start in October, will smoothly connect Tampere and Turku to Finnair's extensive network, said Finnair's President and CEO Turkka Kuusisto in the press release. Starting in October, Finnair will fly one daily overnight flight to both Tampere and Turku, connecting passengers with Finnair's European flights departing in the morning and with flights returning to Helsinki in the evening. In addition to overnight flights, Finnair brings passengers from Turku and Tampere to Helsinki in the afternoon, so that a flight from Oulu to Helsinki stops in Tampere and a flight from Stockholm to Helsinki stops in Turku and then continues to Helsinki. The flights will be operated with ATR aircraft with 68–70 seats. Finnair replaced flights to Tampere and Turku with bus connections in 2022–2023. When flights will be resumed in October, the bus service will continue during the day, but the late-night service will be removed and replaced by an overnight flight. Finnair flies from Helsinki to about 90 destinations in Europe, 11 destinations in Asia, 7 destinations in North America and one destination in Australia.