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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Helen Coffey

Helsinki-Tokyo flights to take four hours longer as airline forced to avoid Russian airspace

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An airline is set to resume flights from Helsinki to Tokyo – but the journey will take almost four hours longer as it’s forced to avoid Russian airspace.

Finnair pressed pause on the route after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked international flight bans, with the UK, US, EU and Canada blocking Russian aircraft from their skies and vice versa.

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