Helsinki airport says Flight 666 has arrived safely in HEL, the airport code for the Finnish capital, for the last time.

The Finnair flight took off from Copenhagen, Denmark, in the 13th hour of Friday the 13th, headed for Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.

Finavia, which operates Finland's 21 airports, said the flight landed eight minutes ahead of schedule at 3:47pm local time.

The flight started 11 years ago and has fallen on Friday the 13th 21 times with no reported ill effects.

Still, Finnair has decided to retire the flight number, but said it was not because of the superstition associating 666 with the devil.

The carrier is switching around some flight numbers later this month and Flight AY666 will become AY954.

"We're growing, so we need more flight numbers. This is why we've done the re-numbering," the airline said on Twitter.

However, the airline will still have the eerily-named flight from SIN (Singapore's Changi Airport) to HEL.

AP