Finland's struggling flag carrier Finnair said Tuesday that its overall traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometres, had fallen in February by 9.3 per cent year-on-year, with scheduled traffic picking up by just over two per cent.

"The faint glimmer of a recovery is no more than that," Christer Haglund, a Finnair spokesman, said in a statement.

"Ticket prices are still low, so emerging growth has brought no significant financial boost yet."

Finnair's passenger load factor stood at 80.2 per cent in February, up by about four points from the year-ago period.

STT