Finnair was the most penalized by the ban on flights over Russia. It managed to get back into the green by reinventing its business model.
Finnair has accumulated problems: it also had to face the closure of Russian airspace following the invasion of Ukraine by Putin's army, in February 2022. As a result, the Helsinki-Tokyo or Helsinki-Shanghai is extended by three hours. “ Suddenly, we lost our competitive advantage: we were the company which, with a stopover in Helsinki, served Asia (Japan…) the fastest.”