Meanings
- A Finnish airline.
“Yes,” Bond confirmed, “here in Helsinki. Unless Finnair got it wrong.”
“Finnair are like homing pigeons,” she laughed. “They don’t often get it wrong.”
1984, John E. Gardner, Icebreaker, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 103 more examples
But all the same, pay attention to one thing which is a part of human existence: on a trip by Finnair from Helsinki to New York you can listen to all kinds of music.
1983, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, translated by Beverley Wahl, Greetings from Lapland: The Sami, Europe's forgotten people, Zed PressThe Finnair employee leafed through the red pages, punched an entry into her computer and bent down to read the output.
1990, Douglas Terman, Enemy Territory, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 94Seeking cachet for his race, Lebow wanted to sign up top foreign runners, but his international contacts at the time consisted more of Hong Kong dress manufacturers than global running clubs. After convincing sponsor Finnair to bring over Finland's Pekka Paivarinta, Lebow turned for leads to the one solid international runner he actually knew—England's Chris Stewart—who was indebted to Lebow on two accounts: professionally, […]
2004, Ron Rubin, Anything for a T-Shirt: Fred Lebow and the New York City Marathon, the World's Greatest Footrace, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 43
Origin
From Finn + air, introduced as a brand name of the airline Aero Oy in 1953. In 1968 the name Aero was changed to Finnair.
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Finnair. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Finnair
“Finnair.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Finnair. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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