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Oct 13, 2020 (newstodate): Flights from Helsinki to Busan, South Korea's second-largest city, has long been on Finnair's wishing-list.
   But again, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused havoc in airline planning, and the launch of the new route is now only expected in the summer 2021 schedule.
   As the first airline to fly non-stop to South Korea from Northern Europe, Finnair launched flights from Helsinki to Seoul on June, 2008, and adding flights to Busan were high on list already in 2017 while hindered by the existing air services agreement between Finland and South Korea allowing for only seven weekly rotations between the two countries.
   Finally, in June 2019 talks in Helsinki between Finland' president and the visiting president of South Korea opened up prospects for new developments in aviation between the two markets as an MoU was signed comprising up for three weekly rotations by Finnair between Helsinki and Busan Gimhae International Airport, by then served only with short-haul regional flights.
   Finnair thus announced the launch of flights between Helsinki and Busan starting from March 30, 2020, as the Korean airport's first direct non-stop air link to Europe.
   But then came the Covid-19... 
   First, the launch was pushed back to July 1, 2020 - and then taken off the program for the immediate future.