Finnair and Belavia to Codeshare

Finnair and Belavia, the national airline company of Belarusia, have signed a codeshare agreement.

The co-operation covers flights between Helsinki and Minsk and will commence 15 August 2011.

The route is flown three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays, with a Canadair CRJ200 jet aircraft.

 The flight arrives in Helsinki at 15:45 and departs back to Minsk at 16:45.

Belavia, established in 1996, is based in Minsk and it operates a modern fleet consisting of 10 Boeing 737 and 4 Canadair aircrafts. The company started operating to Helsinki in June this year.

"This new agreement adds an interesting new destination to our route map and gives our guests from Asia and Europe a convenient way to reach Minsk by using Helsinki as a connect point," said Hannu Sundberg, Vice President Commercial Airline Partnerships at Finnair.

The addition of this new route to Minsk from Helsinki complements Finnair’s Baltic area network.

Currently, Finnair and its partners serve five other destinations in the Baltics – Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, St Petersburg and Gdansk – and nine destinations in Scandinavia. 

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