In a new agreement between Finnair management and the airline’s cabin crew, the national flag carrier has reach a conclusion to end the subcontracting plan for inflight services on routes to the USA and Thailand. This further concludes the change plan, as well as discontinuing the subcontracting plan for inflight services on North American and Thailand routes. Alongside this, Finnair also made local agreements which will increase efficiency in Finnair’s Technical Services and different ground operation units. The negative impact of the Russian airspace closure on Asian passenger traffic figures was, however visible in February compared to the pre-pandemic figures. In European traffic, passenger numbers increased by 72.3%, in Middle Eastern traffic by 623.4% and in domestic traffic by 61.4%.

Source: Ethiopian News March 20, 2023 01:52 UTC