Finnair retires A340
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Finnair conducted its last revenue flight on A340-300 from Tokyo-Narita (NRT) to Helsinki-Vantaa (HEL) on January 31. The flight AY74 was operated on the company’s OH-LQE aircraft.
Finnair is replacing its fleet of A340-300s with A350-900 models. The company already received seven airplanes and will get nineteen in total by the end of 2023.
Finnair has operated seven A340-300s over the past eleven years of which three are destined to be scrapped and four (including OH-LQE) are destined for start-up Air Belgium reports ch-aviation.
End of an era: Last commercial #A340 flight on Finnair livery was flown yesterday 31JAN TYO-HEL by OH-LQE. Thank you for 11 amazing years! pic.twitter.com/y7DP2zIRKm
— Finnair (@Finnair) February 1, 2017