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Jan 28, 2022 (newstodate): India is firmly back on the schedule of Finnair after the "travel bubble" between India and Finland took effect from November 17, 2021.
Finnair thus returned flights on the route between Helsinki and New Delhi from December 6, 2021, initially with two weekly rotations, going up to three shortly before Christmas.
From the start of February 2022, Finnair is adding a fourth weekly rotation, and the full schedule with daily rotations is planned to be reinstated from June 2022.
Flights on the route were suspended as the Covid-19 struck in spring 2020, after which only scant repatriation flights were performed by Finnair.
Finnair first started operations to Delhi, India, from November 1, 2006.
Air India launched flights between Delhi and Stockholm from August 15, 2017, and between Delhi and Copenhagen from September 16, 2017, both served by three weekly rotations using Boeing 787-8 aircraft.
However, in August 2020 Air India pulled out from both routes to Scandinavia, leaving Finnair alone in providing direct flights between India and the Nordic markets.
Earlier, SAS launched flights on the route between Copenhagen and Delhi from October 28, 2008, but closed down its short-lived route already from March, 2009.