The huge challenges facing Finnair due to Russian airspace closure

No other airline has been hit as hard by the Russian airspace closure as Finnair. The carrier’s CEO, Topi Manner, speaks to Andreas Spaeth about challenges faced and those it has still to face

Finnair will celebrate its one hundredth anniversary in late 2023. The airline, which boasts a fleet of 80 aircraft and carried almost 15 million passengers annually pre-pandemic, lost its unique market niche almost overnight.

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