HELSINKI, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- First airline to fly direct between Europe and inland Chinese megacity Today Finnair [http://www.finnair.com ] begins

Started in '69 with DC-8s, Now A330-300 Aircraft on non-stop flights Anniversary Airfare of $400 Roundtrip NEW YORK, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Four decades ago, on May 15, 1969, Finnair's brand-new DC-8 aircraft touched down at New York's JFK Airport after leaving Helsinki some 13 hours earlier.

Finnair has reported that its passenger, traffic measured in passenger kilometers, increased by 17.3% in February 2008, while the capacity was up by 20.3%, resulting in a passenger load factor of 74.8% or two points lower than February 2007.

Finland-based airline, Finnair, has reported that, its traffic increased by 18.1% and capacity by 18.3% in December 2007 and number of passengers carried on Finnair flights was 608 483, which is 4.8% more than a year ago. Finnair total traffic, measured in passenger kilometers, grew 16.2% in 2007.

Finnair has reported that scheduled traffic for October 2007 has increased by 34.3% compared to October last year. Asian traffic grew by 41.3% and passenger load factor was 7.5% higher than last year, on 81.6%. Passenger load factor in scheduled passenger traffic was 74.8%, up 5.1%.