Happy Friday the 13th. Would you like to fly to HEL? Flight 666 is about to depart. 
 
 In fact, it’s about to depart for the very last time. After 11 years of operating flight AY666 from Copenhagen (CPH) to Helsinki (HEL), Finnair is retiring the ominously billed journey – or, rather, renaming it. 
 
 Flight 666 going straight to HEL will take off today at 13.20 from Copenhagen’s Terminal 2. It is scheduled to arrive in HEL (again Terminal 2) at 15.55. 
 
 From 29 October, the flight will be renamed AY954. The last flight 666 will fly on Friday 27 October. 
 
 The last time flight 666 performed on a Friday 13th was in January 2017. On that occasion, the flight – made on an unlucky-for-some 13-year-old jet – landed on time, despite having taken off late. 
 
 The previous Friday 13th flight, in May 2016, landed three minutes late. 
 
 Finnair has operated the AY666 route since 2006. According to the Telegraph, the flight has been scheduled on a Friday the 13th no fewer than 21 times. 
 
 A spokesperson for Finnair told The Independent that the number has not been changed due to superstitious passengers. 
 
 “We are a growing airline and we are reorganising our flight numbers to make room for additional flight numbers to be used,” he said. 
 
 ‘Brad Bernoulli’, the Independent’s flight attendant columnist, says that he’s expecting a lighter load on flights today. “Passengers are definitely more attuned to full moons, Friday the 13th and that kind of thing,” he said – adding that although “some flight attendants are more superstitious than others”, he hasn’t ever noticed an increase in people calling in sick. 
 
 Last winter, HEL hit the headlines for a poster greeting tourists on arrival. 
 
 "Nobody in their right mind would come to Helsinki in November," read the poster at the airport, on behalf of the tourist board and a start-up festival. 
 
 "Except you, you badass. Welcome." 
 
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 Register your place today by logging into Independent Minds ||||| Oct. 13 (UPI) -- A Finnair flight that took off Friday morning might give pause to the superstitious: Flight 666 to "HEL" on Friday the 13th. 
 
 The flight departed at 1:18 p.m. local time from Copenhagen, Denmark, and landed at 3:53 at Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa airport -- which has a three-letter airport code of "HEL." 
 
 An airline spokesman said Flight 666 has been making the flights to Helsinki for 11 years, and 21 of the trips took place on various Fridays the 13th. 
 
 The airline said the perceived unluckiness of the date, combined with the number 666 and the "HEL" destination, has not appeared to have any affect on passenger numbers for flights. 
 
 Finnair said the flight marked the final time Flight 666 will make the trip on a Friday the 13th, as a reordering of flight data is causing the flight to be renumbered to 954. ||||| Fearless flyers laughed in the face of superstition when they boarded the last ever Flight 666 to HEL on Friday the 13th. 
 
 Travelling on the “unluckiest day of the year” could save you some pounds, but a journey straight to HEL on the 13th hour of the superstitious date is one flight most would probably like to avoid. 
 
 Nordic airline Finnair has flown brave passengers from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Helsinki, Finland, on Friday the 13th since 2006. 
 
 However, it is the last time Flight 666 will fly to Hel, as the airline has decided to retire the flight number. 
 
 “Today will actually be the final time that our AY666 flight flies to HEL,” a spokesperson for the airline said.
– For the last time, Finnair Flight 666 flew to HEL on Friday the 13th. Twenty-one times over the past 11 years, Finnair flights numbered 666 have departed for Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa airport, whose airport code is HEL, on a Friday the 13th. The latest one departed at 1:18pm local time from Copenhagen, Denmark, and landed at 3:53pm, UPI reports. Even better: That departure time was during the 13th hour of the day, as the Telegraph points out. Sadly, per Finnair, such a trip won't happen again because the airline's flight data is being reordered at the end of the month, and the flight will be renumbered as 954. But the move has nothing to do with superstition: "We are a growing airline and we are reorganizing our flight numbers to make room for additional flight numbers to be used," an airline rep tells the Independent.