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In addition to Group administration, the Support Services division is responsible for financial and personnel management services as well as real estate services.
During 2002, the Support Services division was reorganized. In the most notable structural change, Finnair set up with IBM a new information technology company, Aerosystems, to which Finnair IT functions were transferred. Finnair owns 40 per cent of Aerosystems Oy.
The ownership and management of the Finnair Group's properties has been centralized in Finnair Facilities Management Oy (FaMa). The company manages real estate covering a total area of 275,000 m2, the largest facilities being those used by Finnair's Technical Services unit. The Finnair Pension Fund owns more than a third of the total real estate.
The company provides property services ranging from real estate development to property maintenance and offices services. The office supplies service previously handled by FaMa was outsourced to Tamore Oy.
FaMa's operating area is Finland, but the company is focusing on the strongly growing and developing Helsinki-Vantaa Airport area. In 2002, the property occupied by the Pori Aviation Academy was sold to the Finnish Aviation Academy, jointly founded by Finnair and the Finnish government.
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