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Finavia Corporation

Finavia

The airport company Finavia manages and develops 20 airports in Finland.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Eero Heinäluoma (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Oct 2025 · Ilmailun ja lentoasemien ajankohtaiset EU-kysymykset, ml. rahoitus

Response to General revision of the General Block Exemption Regulation

6 Oct 2025

Finavia considers it of paramount importance that operating aid for small airports with a maximum of 700,000 annual passengers, instead of current 200,000, be allowed in the General Block Exemption Regulations (GBER) Article 56(a). According to a study , airports with fewer than 500,000 annual passengers are permanently unprofitable, and few airports with 500,0001,000,000 annual passengers have the potential to become profitable in the near future. The operations of larger airports with international connections should be market-driven. However, Finavia believes that, in order to ensure connectivity, economic development, regional cohesion and defence needs, public aid for the operations of small regional airports should be permitted, as their operations are chronically unprofitable and support measures do not have disruptive effects on the functioning of the internal market. Finavia thinks that the GBER should be revised so that the limit for granting operating aid to small regional airports without notification is raised from 200,000 annual passengers to 700,000 passengers. With this revision, the exemptions contained in the Aviation State Aid Guidelines can be waived and the GBER can be used as the primary source for regulating state aid for airports. The change would simplify regulation, reduce bureaucracy and administrative burden, ensure faster implementation, increase legal certainty, and bring predictability to the development of small regional airports. In addition to operating aid, GBER allows granting investment aid to airports with up to three million annual passengers without notification. Finavia considers the three million passenger limit to be appropriate, especially when considering the growing investment needs of airports, for example, to develop sustainable aviation fuel distribution infrastructure, to introduce potential new technologies, and to strengthen the resilience of critical airport infrastructure. For the abovementioned reasons, 100% aid intensity for investment aid to airports below 1 million passengers per annum should be allowed instead of the current 75 %.
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Response to Revision of EU rules on air services

9 Jun 2025

Finavias response to the European Commission call for evidence for an impact assessment of Regulation 1008/2008 attached
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Meeting with Merja Kyllönen (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Oct 2024 · Ilmailun ajankohtaiset asiat

Meeting with Henna Virkkunen (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Jan 2024 · Current EU affairs

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

16 Mar 2023 · Sustainable aviation

Meeting with Elsi Katainen (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Jun 2022 · ajankohtainen poliittinen tilanne, fit for 55

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

1 Jun 2022 · Recovery of aviation post-Covid and disruptions in the airports

Meeting with Marika Lautso-Mousnier (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

15 Mar 2019 · EU aviation policy and public procurement

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

18 Jan 2019 · airport charges

Meeting with Risto Artjoki (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Miltton Europe

20 Nov 2018 · Aviation

Meeting with Kaius Kristian Hedberg (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska) and Miltton Europe

22 Feb 2018 · recent developments in the aviation sector

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

12 Jan 2018 · Multimodal connections

Meeting with Juho Romakkaniemi (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Miltton Europe

18 Oct 2017 · Procurement, aviation

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Miltton Europe

18 Oct 2017 · Airport related legal framework

Meeting with Timo Pesonen (Director-General Communication)

11 Jan 2017 · Priorities of the Maltese Presidency and Communication challenges for 2017.

Meeting with Joshua Salsby (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

11 Jan 2017 · Aviation

Meeting with Joshua Salsby (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

28 Oct 2016 · Aviation

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

14 Oct 2016 · Airport network principle, Single European Sky

Meeting with Joshua Salsby (Cabinet of Commissioner Violeta Bulc)

8 Mar 2016 · Aviation

Meeting with Grzegorz Radziejewski (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

8 Mar 2016 · airport services and other topics considering the Commissions Aviation package

Meeting with Henrik Hololei (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

29 Jan 2016 · Aviation package

Meeting with Edward Bannerman (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen) and Miltton Europe

2 Dec 2015 · Aviation package