Passenger flights from UK to Finland banned

Finnair has cancelled all flights between Finland and Britain for two weeks, beginning immediately on Monday morning. All passenger flight traffic from Britain to Finland will be halted for two weeks. The air traffic suspension will last until 4 January.

Finland is following many other countries in stopping direct flights from Britain due to a new, highly-contagious variant of the Covid-19 virus.

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