Finnair: End of an era: Farewell to the A340

13-Nov-2017 The A340 had a major role in the history of Finnair as it opened up the growth to Asia. Now we have given up all the seven A340-300 airplanes that we operated while the A350 aircraft that replaced them have been delivered and taken into use in our scheduled traffic. As you might already know, Finnair has ordered a total of 19 new Airbus A350 XWB aircraft from Airbus, which we have now received a total of 11. Originally, the first A350 aircraft was meant to join the Finnair fleet already in the spring of 2012, but the deliveries were however delayed, because Airbus decided to make changes to the aircraft model and the delay was temporarily replaced by A340 aircraft.