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Air Finland is an airline based in Helsinki, Finland. It operates charter and scheduled services, as well as wet-leases. Its main base is Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. A Boeing 747-400 belonging to Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area  - total  - land ranked 342nd 185. ... The Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (IATA: HEL, ICAO: EFHK) in Vantaa, Finland is the main airport of the Helsinki metropolitan region and the whole of Finland. ...

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Code Data

  • IATA Code: OF
  • ICAO Code: FIF
  • Callsign: Air Finland

The International Air Transport Association is an international trade organization of airlines headquarted in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), an agency of the United Nations, develops the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. ...

History

The airline was established in January 2002 and started flight operations on 3 April 2003. 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Services

Air Finland operates services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2006): Alicante, Bangkok, Banjul, Copenhagen, Faro, Gothenburg, Isla Margarita, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Málaga, Muscat, Natal, Phuket, Salalah, Salzburg, Sharm el-Sheikh and Stockholm. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... View over Alicante and the Mediterranean Alicante (Castillian Spanish) or Alacant (Valencian Catalan) is the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of the Alacantí, in the southern part of the Land of Valencia, Spain, a historic Mediterranean port. ... Bangkok from the Chao Phraya River at sunset, July 2004 The Wat Phra Kaew temple Bangkok Metropolitan Administration building Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep (กรุงเทพฯ), or Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (กรุงเทพมหานคร, IPA: ), is the capital and largest city of Thailand, with an official 1990 population of 8,538,610. ... Street in Banjul city Banjul is the capital of The Gambia. ... Copenhagen (Danish: København) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, and the name of the municipality (Danish, kommune) in which it resides. ... Faro is a city in Portugal; see Faro, Portugal a town in Yukon, Canada; see Faro, Yukon. ... Gothenburg (Swedish: â–¶ (help· info)) ) is a city and municipality on the west-coast of Sweden, in the County of Västra Götaland. ... Isla Margarita (Margarita Island) is the largest island of the Nueva Esparta State in Venezuela, situated in the Caribbean off the north eastern shore of the country. ... Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a Spanish city, the capital city of Gran Canaria which is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, 210 kilometers located off the northwestern coast of Africa. ... Málaga is a port city in Andalucia, southern Spain, on the Costa del Sol coast of the Mediterranean. ... Several things are known as Muscat: Muscat is the capital of, and was formerly the name of the Sultanate of, Oman. ... Natal is a former British colony, and a South African province. ... Phuket (Thai ภูเก็ต) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ... Salalah from space, November 2004 Classification City Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said Area ?,???km² [1] Population  - Total (2005)  - Density  - Oman calculated rank 178,447[2] ???.??/km² 2nd Timezone: (UTC) +4 Latitude Longitude 17. ... Flag of Salzburg Salzburg (population 145,000 in 2003) is a city in western Austria and the capital of the federal state of Salzburg (population 520,000 in 2003). ... View of the Red Sea and Tiran Island from the Sheraton Sharm hotel Sharm el-Sheikh (شرم الشيخ, also transliterated as Sharm ash Shaykh), often known simply as Sharm, is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in Janub Sina, Egypt, on the coastal strip between the Red... The Old town in Stockholm from the air â–¶(?) is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ...


Fleet

The Air Finland fleet consists of 3 Boeing 757-200 aircraft (at July 2005). The Boeing 757 is a medium-range transcontinental commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ...


External links


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Air Finland Sees 2006 Traffic Improve (126 words)
Finnish leisure carrier Air Finland transported 404,000 passengers in 2005, 30 percent more than in the previous year, and it said on Wednesday it expected to transport more than 500,000 passengers in 2006.
The privately-held Air Finland, which started up in 2002 and now operates three Boeing 757-200 aircraft, reported a 2005 net profit of close to EUR1.1 million (USD$1.4 million) on turnover of about EUR51 million (USD$64.4 million).
Air Finland's larger peer, national carrier Finnair, is scheduled to report January-March earnings on May 5.
Finland - Air Force (700 words)
The peacetime missions of the air force (Ilmavoimat) were the patrolling of Finnish air space and the surveillance, identification, and interception of intruding aircraft.
The possibility that Finnish air space would be violated on the flight paths of bombers and cruise missiles of NATO and Warsaw Pact forces was an issue of intense concern.
As of 1988, Finland was in the process of acquiring further capability to detect, to intercept, and to destroy cruise missiles crossing Finnish territory.
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