Finnair will extend its codeshare cooperation with American Airlines next summer, when American Airlines begins flights from Chicago to Helsinki. The route will be flown in the summer traffic season 2011 with Boeing 767 aircraft. - We are glad that through this cooperation, we will be able to offer our customers a new destination and an ever-expanding route network in the United States. The new route will also allow access to 43 new further destinations in North America, says Paavo Virkkunen, Finnair's Vice President responsible for oneworld relations. The flight will depart Chicago at 15.40 and arrive in Helsinki at 08.30. The flight from Helsinki back to Chicago will depart at 14.00, arriving at 15.20. Finnair flies in the summer traffic season to New York daily and to Toronto five times per week. American Airlines flies in codeshare cooperation with Finnair to, among other destinations, Boston, Washington, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Miami. In Europe, Finnair flies in cooperation with American Airlines to London, Paris and Frankfurt. The members of the oneworld alliance members are, in addition to Finnair and American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Iberia, Japan Airlines, LAN, Malév Hungarian Airlines, Mexicana, Qantas and Royal Jordanian as well as around 20 subsidiaries. The Russian airline S7 will join the alliance in November and the Indian airline Kingfisher will join in 2011. Finnair Plc Communications 6.10.2010 Further information: Paavo Virkkunen, Finnair's Vice President responsible for oneworld relations, tel. +358 9 818 8580 Finnair Media Desk tel. +358 9 818 4020, comms(a)finnair.fi Rethink Quality website: www.finnair.com/rethinkquality Finnair blogs: http://blogs.finnair.com Finnair on Facebook: www.facebook.com/finnair Photobank: www.finnair.com/gallery Finnair Group website: www.finnairgroup.com via.Helsinki: www.viahelsinki.com