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.