Cheap flights from Helsinki
Cheap flights from Helsinki leave Vantaa airport, and the route map leans heavily on Europe: Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, Vienna, Berlin and Stockholm are all within reach, with Alicante for sun and Chisinau further east. Finnair flies from its home base here, alongside Norwegian, Air Baltic and a long list of partner carriers. Fares move with the season, so the calendar on this page is the fastest way to see when they dip.
Destinations from Helsinki
Airports — Helsinki
Helsinki has a single departure airport: Vantaa. That keeps the choice simple, because every flight out of the Finnish capital starts there, so you are picking a day and an airline rather than a terminal on the other side of town. Finnair is based at Vantaa and appears right across the route map, while Norwegian and Air Baltic add competing departures to European cities. Partner and leisure carriers fill in the rest of the board.
When to go
Departures from Helsinki follow the Finnish year. Summer is the busiest stretch, when the school break and Midsummer send people south to Alicante and around the Baltic, and Christmas and New Year fill the city-break routes to Prague, Vienna, Berlin and Stockholm. The calmer windows tend to fall outside the school holidays, in late autumn and the weeks after the winter break, when fares to Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Bucharest and Chisinau are easier to find. Flying midweek and booking well ahead helps at any time of year.