Finnair is the flag carrier of Finland, headquartered near Helsinki Airport and founded in 1923 as Aero O/Y, making it one of the oldest airlines in the world still in continuous operation. Finnair joined the Oneworld alliance in 1999 and built a distinctive long-haul strategy around Helsinki's far-northern geographic position, marketing itself as offering some of the shortest and most fuel-efficient routes between Europe and major cities in East Asia by flying over the Arctic and Russian airspace, a routing advantage significantly disrupted after 2022 when Russia closed its airspace to Finnish and other Western carriers following sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine.
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flag-carrier and largest airline of Finland
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Finnair Plc (Finnish: Finnair Oyj, Swedish: Finnair Abp) is the flag carrier and largest full-service legacy airline of Finland, with headquarters in Vantaa on the grounds of Helsinki Airport, its hub.
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