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Flying Finn Files For Bankruptcy  
User currently offlineCFM-56 From Finland, joined Sep 2001, 239 posts, RR: 0
Posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1708 times:

Flying Finn filed for bankruptcy today 27th january.All flights will be flown normally today but as of midnight the company suspends all flights.
They have debt of 8 million euros.Another airline bites the dust.

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User currently offlineCapital146 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2003, 2125 posts, RR: 49
Reply 1, posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1661 times:

This comes only about a week after a thread was running on A.net that the reason they were dropping HEL-STN was to concentrate more on domestic/regional routes.

Sad news, had no idea things were so bad.


Like a fine wine, one gets better with age.
User currently offlineSwissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5265 posts, RR: 37
Reply 2, posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1626 times:

Very sad news indeed. When I saw them few weeks ago in HEL I decided to fly my next domestic flight with them.

I wonder what they are going to do in the future ...


Smooth as silk - Royal Orchid Service /// Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens - Springbok
User currently offlineRjnut From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 1166 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1594 times:

I think alot of European carriers will have this happen to them..
Just having a website ,alone, is not going to get people on your planes..If you are not in the GDS res systems and dont have a lot of brand recognition, travel profesionals cant find you..
I predict the same fate for Helvetic of Switzerland ,( and others).

User currently offlineThomas_Jaeger From Switzerland, joined Apr 2002, 2266 posts, RR: 31
Reply 4, posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 4 hours ago) and read 1552 times:

Being in the GDS's is no longer very important in Europe. Scandinavian travel agents know Flying Finn anyway, others are not going to make up for a big percentage anyway ...


Swiss aviation news junkie living all over the place
User currently offlineSwissgabe From Switzerland, joined Jan 2000, 5265 posts, RR: 37
Reply 5, posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 1446 times:

Being in the CDS is in most cases connected with a lot of cost. As you might know, that is what LCC are going to avoid. Indeed some of the LCC are published in a GDS but what does it help when you can't book the flight or if you pay high fares compared to the lower fares published on the website?

As long as you are known in the market you target, and I'm sure, Flying Finn is known in Finland, it doesn't matter where you publish your flights.

This of course goes mainly for Europe since I think that you can't compare the selling channels of the US with the once here in Europe and there is another importance as well.


Smooth as silk - Royal Orchid Service /// Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens - Springbok
User currently offlineBabybus From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 3512 posts, RR: 6
Reply 6, posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 1347 times:

I think Flying Finn suffered from the fact that Finnair already had very good flt connections for most international flts at HEL and AY also offered a discount on the internal flt if you booked it with your international sector. There was also the interline baggage thing.

Flying Finn didn't advertise their services very much in the UK and for many collecting your bags in HEL and checking in again, maybe with a wait between flts, was not an attractive package or worth the hassle.

If they have bitten the dust I'm very sad as I was looking forward to traveling with them in the near future. It was about time AY had a bit of internal competition.


and with that..cabin crew, seats for landing please.
User currently offlineMn From Finland, joined Jan 2004, 52 posts, RR: 0
Reply 7, posted (9 years 3 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 1235 times:

Flying Finn is still looking for new capital so the bankruptcy is not confirmed yet. We will see what happens later today.

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