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Finnair also operated their first ever A350 flight into London/Heathrow today. It was flight AY995 and operated by the same aircraft as the Amsterdam flight. I believe it is currently the only one that they have in service.
 
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The plane, the ES-19, will carry 19 passengers to a range of 250 miles and is being designed to be capable of landing on runways as short as 2,500 feet.
 
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The Finnish flag carrier plans to connect the Swedish capital with:

  • Bangkok Suvarnabhumi (5x weekly starting on October 22, increasing to daily as of November 28),
  • Phuket (weekly starting on October 24, increasing gradually to 3x weekly as of November 30), and
  • Miami Int'l (2x weekly starting on October 29, increasing to 4x weekly as of November 29).
 
Flown with AY a few times to Asia, i rate them.
 
Finnair will launch a new route between Helsinki and Dallas Fort Worth. Flights start in February 2022 using the A350-900 aircraft. This follows Iberia’s recent announcement that they will start a Madrid-Dallas route to.

Finnair will be Dallas Fort Worths 16th foreign airline to operate out of there.

Source of info: Ishrion Aviation on twitter
 
Moved from BHX Movements and Heads Up.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but, loosely, it is movement. Waiting at Manchester Piccadilly today for a train to Manchester Airport and got talking to a woman from China.

She was returning home to Guangzhou while I was flying to Bergamo.

Strangely, despite flights direct from Manchester, she was flying to Finland and then on to Hong Kong and finally mainland China.

Maybe Finnair should be a solid focus for the development team at Bhx..?
 
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Finnair have been a prime focus to BHX as have wider One World airlines....

In 2016/17 with had BA, AA, IB, QR and as such, the likes of AY (Finnair) and CX (Cathey Pacific) were the obvious next steps and i know BHX were in advance talks with them....

But then the world changed....

BA, AA, IB ended up pulling out, and then the pandemic hit....

At present, AY are struggling as their main revenue stream (EU to Far East) has been heavily impacted but the Russian Airspace ban which has massively impacted on revenue. This has partly been resolved by them leasing their unused long-haul aircraft to QR flying DOH - ARN/HEL/OSL to help QR out with their aircraft shortage, but with this now resolved, be interesting to see what comes of it...
 
This has partly been resolved by them leasing their unused long-haul aircraft to QR flying DOH - ARN/HEL/OSL to help QR out with their aircraft shortage, but with this now resolved, be interesting to see what comes of it...
At least 2 Finnair A350 are operating for Eurowings out of FRA to USA
 
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Having engineered this current discussion, I can add a bit more. While I was waiting to board I had a fleeting glimpse of the Finnair plane landing.

Not big, I would have said it was an Embraer 170. If that is correct, then there is not a vast traffic between Man and Helsinki.
 

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