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HEL→MIA

Helsinki to Miami

Flights
100 both ways
Carriers
1
Distance
5,174 mi
Period
July 2025 to June 2026
—GRADE

No public record scores Helsinki-Vantaa to Miami International flight by flight. The US Department of Transportation's on-time database covers domestic flights only, and in Europe only the United Kingdom publishes punctuality by route, so what follows is built from the three measurements that do exist. The DOT's international report counts 100 flights between the two airports in the twelve months to June 2026, roughly a weekly round trip, flown by Finnair. EUROCONTROL's year-to-date figure has 77.6% of all departures from Helsinki-Vantaa leaving within 15 minutes of schedule and 77.5% of arrivals landing within 15 minutes. At the other end, 74.2% of MIA's domestic departures arrived on time in the DOT data, which says something about how the airport itself runs, not about this route.

On EUROCONTROL's year-to-date arrival punctuality, Helsinki-Vantaa ranks 17th of the 41 European airports on this site with service to the United States. Bilbao leads that table at 84.3% and Manchester closes it at 65.7%. A long-haul departure inherits the airport's morning: an aircraft that arrived late from its previous sector, or a departure queue built up by weather, delays the transatlantic wave with everything else.

Key figures

Flights

100

Both directions, July 2025 to June 2026 (DOT)

Carriers

1

Finnair

HEL departures on time

77.6%

All destinations, year to date (EUROCONTROL)

MIA domestic on time

74.2%

US DOT, last twelve months of domestic departures

Without a route-level record, the useful question is what the two airports do to a schedule. EUROCONTROL attributes 0.3 minutes of air traffic flow management delay per arriving flight to Helsinki-Vantaa so far this year; that is delay imposed by the network to hold traffic on the ground elsewhere, not the airline's own. In the DOT data, a delayed domestic departure from MIA ran a little over an hour late on average over the last twelve months, and 1.64% of its scheduled flights were cancelled.

Carrier by carrier

Who flies HEL to MIA

Finnair is the only carrier the DOT report shows on HEL to MIA, with 100 flights and an average of 247 passengers aboard each. A single-carrier route gives a delayed passenger no same-day alternative on the same ticket, which is worth knowing before booking a tight onward connection.

Carriers on HEL to MIA by flights operated
AirlineFlightsSharePer monthPassengers / flight
Finnair100100%8247

DOT international report, July 2025 to June 2026; flights in both directions together. No delay figures exist for this pair in any public source.

Across the year

How often HEL to MIA flies through the year

The DOT's international report puts 26 flights on the pair in January 2026, the busiest month of the window, and 0 in June 2026, the thinnest. A summer-to-winter swing of that size means the winter schedule is a different operation: fewer frequencies, so a cancellation leaves a longer wait for the next seat.

Flights per month, both directions

  • July 20250
  • August 20250
  • September 20250
  • October 20250
  • November 20250
  • December 202520
  • January 202626
  • February 202624
  • March 202626
  • April 20264
  • May 20260
  • June 20260
Flights in both directions together, as the DOT international report counts them; flights per calendar month.

The DOT's international report counts flights in both directions together: 100 between HEL and MIA from July 2025 to June 2026, roughly a weekly round trip, carrying 24,701 passengers. That makes it the 5th busiest of 5 US routes from Helsinki-Vantaa and the 18th busiest of 18 European routes into MIA.

The departure airport

How Helsinki-Vantaa is running

EUROCONTROL's figures for Helsinki-Vantaa as a whole, every airline and every destination: 77.6% of departures and 77.5% of arrivals within 15 minutes of schedule from 1 January to 21 October 2026, with 97.3% of scheduled flights operated. The last seven days ran at 75.0% for departures, 3 points worse than the year so far. Air traffic flow management delay attributed to the airport averaged 0.3 minutes per arriving flight this year, 0.0 over the last week.

EUROCONTROL punctuality at Helsinki-Vantaa
WindowDepartures on timeArrivals on timeSchedules operatedATFM delay / arrival
Yesterday (21 October 2026)83.3%83.3%96.7%0.0 min
Last 7 days75.0%74.6%97.9%0.0 min
Year to date77.6%77.5%97.3%0.3 min

Every US route from Helsinki-Vantaa, and its full punctuality record

The arrival airport

Landing at Miami International

Miami International is scored on this site from the DOT's domestic data: 74.2% of its 111,132 domestic departures arrived on time over the last twelve months, with delayed flights running a little over an hour late, and 1.64% were cancelled. Those are domestic flights, not this route, but an arriving transatlantic flight shares the same runways, the same weather and the same ground delay programmes, so a bad day at MIA reaches a flight from HEL just as surely. The airport's own page has the hour-by-hour and month-by-month detail, and its live FAA status appears above when the FAA has something to say.

Domestic on time

74.2%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late (DOT)

Avg delay

72 min

Delayed domestic flights only

Cancelled

1.64%

Domestic departures

111,132

Last twelve months

Miami International (MIA) delay statistics, hour by hour and month by month

Your rights

EC 261/2004 on HEL to MIA

Every flight that departs Helsinki-Vantaa falls under Regulation (EC) 261/2004, whichever airline flies it and wherever it lands. If it arrives at Miami International three hours or more late, or is cancelled with under 14 days' notice, and the cause was within the airline's control, each passenger is owed €600 (€300 if the airline got you there under four hours late), on top of rebooking and care. Weather, air traffic control restrictions and strikes outside the airline are the usual exemptions. The return flight from MIA is covered only when the carrier is EU based. The sector is about 5,174 miles, 8,325 km, which puts it in the top distance band.

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What to do with this

Booking HEL to MIA

There is no grade to give HEL to MIA without a route record, and this site does not invent one. What the three sources support: roughly a weekly round trip, a single carrier, a departure airport that gets 78% of its departures away on time and an arrival airport that runs 74% on time domestically. Leave two hours for any onward connection at MIA; immigration comes before the connecting flight.

Common questions

HEL to MIA questions

How often are HEL to MIA flights delayed?

No public dataset records delays for this route flight by flight: the US on-time database is domestic only and only the UK publishes route-level punctuality in Europe. The nearest measurements are the departure airport's EUROCONTROL punctuality (77.6% of departures within 15 minutes this year) and MIA's domestic record in the DOT data (74.2% on time).

Which airlines fly HEL to MIA?

Finnair. Finnair accounted for 100% of the 100 flights the DOT counted on the pair.

Can I claim compensation for a delayed HEL to MIA flight?

Yes, if the flight arrived three hours or more late or was cancelled at short notice for a reason within the airline's control: departures from Helsinki-Vantaa are covered by EC 261/2004 whichever airline operates them. The fixed amount for a sector of this length is €600 a passenger, €300 if the airline got you there under four hours late. The return from MIA is covered only on an EU carrier.

How many flights a day are there from HEL to MIA?

Roughly a weekly round trip: the DOT counted 100 flights in both directions over twelve months, peaking at 26 in January 2026 and falling to 0 in June 2026.

Related

Where to go next

Finland publishes no route-level punctuality, so this page cannot grade the route. The UK pages in this section can, because the CAA does.

Sources: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, International Report (flights and passengers by carrier and airport pair), July 2025 to June 2026; EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, airport punctuality and ATFM delay to 21 October 2026. Rebuilt 22 October 2026; the EUROCONTROL figures refresh with each weekly build, the others when their publisher releases a month. How these sources differ.