Finnair forced to cancel 250 flights due to postal strike

Finnair has been forced to cancel flights today (25 November) due to ongoing labour dispute at Posti, the Finnish postal service. While Finnair is not a party in the dispute, the strike would have major impacts on Finnair flights operations. The strike will affect several critical services at Helsinki Airport, including ground services such as loading and unloading of aircraft, fueling and push-back of aircraft, as well as Finnair customer services at Helsinki Airport, catering of Finnair flights and Finnair maintenance operations. Finnair had 377 flights in its traffic program for Monday, and the company expects to be able operate