Gray hair with the airlines

For our bad luck, a Finnish airline company Finncomm has announced it will cease all flights to Jyväskylä. This has created a lot of fuzz around here, because it is the other of the only two companies flying to Jyväskylä at the moment. The whole process has been so sudden and surprising that the actions of Finncomm have created some speculation of being part of lobbying or competitive business actions. There might be some truth in this, because even the government has had an emergency meeting because of the matter.

Good thing for us is that Finnair has announced it will cover Finncomm’s absence. Other companies’ have also announced that they will begin flight routes to Jyväskylä (so if it was a competitive or a lobbying action for subsidies, it went terribly wrong).

Finncomm assured us that all clients are informed about the flight cancellations and replacement flights by Finnair. So the situation looks promising, but is still a bit fuzzy. To play it safe, we are planning for a direct bus connection on Saturday morning from the congress venue to the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, so the departure from Finland would go as smoothly and pleasantly as the arrival and the rest of the congress. But about that, we will inform more later on after the registration period expires.

We’re back in business

Some of you might have noticed our reduced activity in the social media, such as on this blog. There’s a simple explanation: we’ve been on vacation. You see, in Finland the university students chill out from May to September (well, actually most of them work vigorously in summer jobs), and the staff has it’s holidays in July. It’s very difficult to contact anyone in Finland in July, because so many are visiting their summer cabins in the countryside.

But now, in the beginning of August we (or some of us) are back! Right when most of the other Europeans start their vacations.