Finnair release passenger figures for March, inching towards pre-pandemic numbers

Finnair carried a total of 953,000 passengers in March 2023 with the passenger load factor at 77.7%. The airline carried 112,400 passengers to Asia; 540,600 passengers to Europe; 47,500 passengers to the Middle East; 31,400 passengers to North America, and 221,100 passengers domestically in Finland. The drop in number of passengers from Asia is due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the ban of Russian airspace. “Further, Russian airspace was closed already during the comparison period, which resulted in route and frequency cancellations in Asian traffic. The negative impact of the Russian airspace closure on Asian passenger traffic figures was, however, visible in