To our home market, Finnair gives not only quality and value for money but also the best links to the rest of the world. From Helsinki we fly direct to more than 30 destinations around the world, a service that business life in many capital cities can only dream about. Domestic traffic is also important to us. We offer the morning-evening concept also to customers living outside the Helsinki Metropolitan Area; at high season we fly to Lapland more than 110 times a week.

To our Far Eastern and European customers we offer the fastest connections between Asia and Europe. The competitiveness of our product is best seen, perhaps, in the growth figures: more than 17% in 2001 and an impressive 38% in 2002! In line with our strategy, we intend to make further increases in our flight services to Asia. Our long-haul fleet will grow in the shape of one MD-11 aircraft. New destinations include Osaka in Japan this summer and Shanghai in China next autumn. We are also increasing the number of flights daily to Beijing.

Despite the uncertain times, our fleet of aircraft is being renewed according to plan. In three years, one third of our fleet has been renewed and by the end of this year we will offer flights on 24 Airbus A320 aircraft, about which we have received very good feedback from customers. The decommissioning of the DC-9 aircraft and the expansion of our Airbus fleet is also making a positive impact on environmental loading.