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Nov 09, 2021 (newstodate): Flights from Helsinki to Busan, South Korea's second-largest city, has long been on Finnair's wishing-list. Now it will be on the summer '22 schedule.
   Busan is thus one of nearly 100 destinations to be served by Finnair next summer, and plans are to launch flights on the route with three weekly rotations from March 2022.
   As the first airline to fly non-stop to South Korea from Northern Europe, Finnair launched flights from Helsinki to Seoul in June 2008. Adding flights to Busan was high on list already in 2017 while hindered by the existing air services agreement between Finland and South Korea allowing for only seven weekly rotations between the two countries.
   Finally, in June 2019 talks in Helsinki between Finland' president and the visiting president of South Korea opened up prospects for new developments in aviation between the two markets as an MoU was signed comprising up for three weekly rotations by Finnair between Helsinki and Busan Gimhae International Airport, by then served only with short-haul regional flights.
   Finnair thus announced the launch of flights between Helsinki and Busan starting from March 30, 2020, as the Korean airport's first direct non-stop air link to Europe.
   But then came the Covid-19...  
   First, the launch was pushed back to July 1, 2020 - and then taken off the program for the immediate future.