Transit restrictions may apply when you travel via Finland.

Travelling to Finland eases with relaxed travel guidance. Finnair as an airline no longer requires coronavirus certificates on flights to Finland as of 12 July 2021.

Finnair trials a digital IATA Travel Pass to make your future travel smoother. If you start your journey from Helsinki and your final destination is London Heathrow or vice versa, you may participate in our trial.

As the coronavirus pandemic still affects to air travel and flight demands globally, we have reviewed our traffic plan for autumn and winter 2021 - 2022. See the instructions here if your travel plans were affected due to changes.

As the coronavirus pandemic still affects air travel significantly, we have reviewed our traffic plan for spring and summer. See the instructions if you have a booking between April and August 2021.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic and related travel restrictions, we are revising our traffic plan regularly.

Due to the coronavirus situation, we do not currently accept new bookings to carry a pet in the hold of our wide body aircraft on intercontinental flights. The restriction is valid from 9 June 2021 until further notice.

You can see where you can travel from Finnair’s travel requirements map.

The  Chinese authorities have introduced requirements for passengers arriving in mainland China.

The UK authorities have introduced requirements for customers arriving in the country.

We are suspending operations on Belarusian airspace for the time being.

During the summer holiday time and peak hours, the number of customers on all our flights and at the airports increases. Busy times are expected at the airport from time to time and service points, such as check- in or security control may be congested. Please arrive at the airport latest 2 hours before your flight or if you are travelling to the USA, latest 3 hours before your flight.

Helsinki Airport’s traffic arrangements to change on 2 March 2021

The coronavirus situation still affects air travel significantly, and many countries have set travel restrictions. We will adjust our traffic plan according to the demand and changing travel restrictions.

Since the spread of the coronavirus, we know your travel plans can change anytime. To offer more flexibility to change bookings in these unprecedented times, we have updated our ticket change policy.

We operate with different aircraft types to our domestic and Scandinavian destinations.

We will suspend our flights between Helsinki and Nanjing in China temporarily from 20 November 2020 onwards due to the policy regarding the threshold for coronavirus cases detected following a 2-week quarantine after entry to China.