Tag: Finnair

  • Knowing Me Knowing You – Ch9

    Crystal asked me to have a seat at her desk in the lobby. Tall, slender, and stoic, she was a classic woman, as if she’d been cut out of a 1970’s fashion magazine featuring clothing by Halston. Mid fifties with grey hair that was coiffed into place like a helmet, dark rimmed glasses and perfect…

  • Home by Evening – Ch8

    Every morning when we’d arrive in Helsinki I’d open the back door of the MD-11, look out over the airfield, and marvel over the fact that I was here.   Thirteen years prior, when I’d been a passenger on the thirty minute flight from Stockholm to Helsinki, the first time I’d ever stepped onto a…

  • Back to Helsinki – Ch6

    As it happened, two years earlier Delta Air Lines had purchased the transatlantic routes from Pan Am and in fact, I could now fly to Helsinki for free (In 1987 Delta purchased Western Airlines). We worked out the details and a few weeks later I was on my way to Helsinki after a ten year…