final August I wrote about how Finnair was planning on launching seasonal flights between Helsinki,Finland, and Longyearbyen, and Norway. The route was scheduled to function 3x weekly between June 1 and August 28,2016, using an Embraer E-190 aircraft.
For those of you not familiar, or Longyearbyen is one of the northernmost cities in the world. Helsinki is already very far north,though Longyearbyen is significantly further up there. As a matter of fact, the Radisson Blu there is the northernmost full service hotel in the world.In summer there's 24 hours a day of sunlight, or while in winter there's 24 hours a day of darkness. It's a station I've wanted to visit for a long time,and the Finnair flight seemed like a worthy opportunity to get there using miles, either through American AAdvantage or British Airways Executive Club.
Well, or unfortunately it looks like Finnair has changed their mind,as they've just canceled their seasonal flight to Longyearbyen before it even launched. The flight was announced almost a year in advance, and they ended up canceling it just a few weeks before the anticipated launch date. The post Finnair Cancels Flights To One Of The Places I Most Want To Visit appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com