Finnair’s winter timetable has been trimmed to reflect a decline in demand due to widespread Covid travel restrictions.
The carrier will serve 45 domestic and European destinations with reduced weekly frequencies on almost all routes.
Finnair is now scheduled to run about 75 flights a day from November to March next year.
This compares with about 350 flights a day covering more than 100 destinations in Europe, Asia and North America in 2019.
The airline will continue to review its traffic programme based on estimated demand, as the changing travel restrictions continue to impact air travel.
Long-haul flights from Helsinki will focus on Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Nanjing and Bangkok, which are also important cargo destinations.
On the Thailand route, Finnair will only fly passengers on the inbound Bangkok-Helsinki sector. Cargo-only flights will continue to Singapore and New York.
Affected customers will be contacted directly by the airline and offered an alternative flight wherever possible.
Customers can also opt for a full refund of the ticket, if the new flight offered is not suitable, according to the airline.
Finnair has also updated its preliminary flight schedule for the summer season 2021, which starts on April 1.
A delayed new Busan route in South Korea is now due to start next summer plus services to Tokyo Haneda airport.
But flights to San Francisco, Xi’an and Beijing Daxing in China and Sapporo in Japan will remain suspended.
Finnair chief commercial officer Ole Orver said: “We continue to maintain critical air connections for our Europe-Asia transfer passengers and for Finland.
“The pandemic situation and the related travel restrictions continue to have a heavy impact on demand for air travel, and thus it is not feasible to operate all the flights we in May planned for this winter.
“Our network will expand and we will increase weekly frequencies during the spring.
“We continue to follow the demand outlook and will be updating the summer 2021 traffic program accordingly in early 2021.
“We of course hope that travel restrictions and the pandemic situation will alleviate by then, so that we can increase our flight offering.”