I went for a daytrip to Hellsinki and wanted to come home fast so I flew back. It was my first time flying domestic and oh what a wonderful way to travel it is, just expensive of course.
It takes about 9 hours with a bus or train between Hellsinki and Oulu (I don’t actually live in Oulu but that’s the closest city to me), and only an hour with a plane. If your time is money, I’d take the plane. There are multible flights back and forth every day so it’s really easy to find a suitable one.
Hellsinki airport is very spacious, clean and operates smoothly so it’s no trouble to go through security, maybe do a bit of shopping and grab a bite to eat.
I’m always super early to anything, especially flight and now more than usual intentionally, so I got some snacks and found a peaceful corned to hang out in at the airport. I listened to audiobooks, knitted, ate and of course people watched.
I’m pretty sure our actual flight time was less than an hour so there really was not much needed in terms of entertainment, I just knitted for a bit and the plane was already tipping back down.
For those of you who are plane nerds, the aircrafts was an Airbus a320 which seats 174 passangers. I’d say it was at about 90% capacity, the first six rows where I was were seated so that almost all the middle seats were empty for more comfort.
Sadly my flight was after sunset so it was all dark by the time we took off, I would have loved to see the our dear homeland from above. I have flawn to and from Hellsinki many a times but then you only really see a bit or the most southern part of Finland and that’s it. Now I saw some scattered lights here and there surrounded with pitch black and that’s all. Next time I’ll definitely try and schedule a daytime flight, or if it’s summer then it doesn’t matter because it’s bright all day and night.