Finnair suspends its Nanjing and Beijing Daxing routes until end of March due to suspended group travel from China

Due to the recent suspension of all group travel from China, Finnair will cancel its three weekly flights between Helsinki and Beijing Daxing International Airport between February 5 and March 29, and its two weekly flights between Helsinki and Nanjing between February 8 and March 29. Finnair will communicate these changes directly to customers who have bookings on these flights and offer the choice of either a change in travel date or destination, or a full ticket refund.

Finnair continues to operate daily to Beijing Capital Airport and to Shanghai, twice a day to Hongkong, and twice a week to Guangzhou.

“These cancellations are needed to manage the impacts of the recent suspension of group travel by Chinese authorities, which have a pronounced impact on the load factors of our Beijing Daxing and Nanjing flights,” says Jaakko Schildt, Chief Operating Officer, Finnair.

The first quarter and especially the weeks following the Chinese New Year are typically seasonally low for Finnair’s Greater China routes. Finnair estimates that direct financial impact of group cancellations, ticket refunds and flight cancellations for its February figures is moderate.

Finnair continues to monitor the situation closely and will provide further updates on the financial impacts in connection with Finnair Q4 and full year 2019 results communications on Feb 7, 2020.

Finnair’s current customer policy allows customers to change or cancel their flights to and from Greater China if they have a ticket issued before 28 January for travel between 25 January and February 29, 2020.