Finnair
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Flying On Qantas Flights on a Finnair planes – Where and How to do so?
Flying between Singapore, Bangkok and Sydney, you can end up, if booking QF291 and QF295, flying a Finnair aircraft, as Qantas has handed over operations of these flights since 2024 to the European carrier. Finnair operates these flights as part of a wet lease agreement, supplying two aircraft to Qantas with registration numbers OHLTM and…
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Finnair expands fleet with new Embraer and used Airbus aircraft
Finnair is navigating a decade-long Airbus delivery backlog with a high-stakes “two-speed” fleet strategy. By combining 18 new Embraer E195-E2s for regional up-gauging with used A320ceos for mainline capacity, the carrier is balancing fuel-burn penalties against the urgent need to retire aging airframes. Is this a masterclass in pragmatism or a dangerous gamble on GTF…
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Finnair Launches New Helsinki-Melbourne Flights via Bangkok in 2026
Operating flights between Europe and Australia is a tricky business. Ask none other than Qantas and they’ll confirm as they are still working to bring onto the market the first A350-1000ULR capable of non-stop connections (Project Sunrise). On the other end, among European carriers only British Airways maintains regularly scheduled flights to Australia, for now.…
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Finnair Expands Thailand Flights for Winter 2026
Finnair hasn’t had it easy in the past 5 years. The airline used to market itself as serving the shortcut routes to Asia. The key piece to that business model went missing when Russia closed its airspace to all European carriers. Since then finding a new core business has been the name of the game,…
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Finnair to Return Its Grounded A321 Fleet to Service After Seat Cover Cleaning Mixup
This is a very unique story. Something I’ve certainly never come across before in many years of working in and closely observing the aviation industry. Finnair had to ground, that’s right ground, 8 of its aircraft for having washed the seat covers the wrong way. Here’s what the story is all about. In this post:…
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Which Are Europe’s Remaining Independent Airlines? – The Last of The Mohicans
The landscape of European aviation has changed, and is still changing, massively since the early 2000s. Consolidation has been the keyword of the last quarter of a century. That, while involving many carriers in the continent, has oddly left out a small number of airlines that, to this day, remain the outlier independent carriers. Consolidation…