Finnair (AY, Helsinki Vantaa) has revised its A350-900 order book and is now expected to take delivery of its eight remaining aircraft of the type on order from Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) by year-end 2022 instead of the originally anticipated 2023.
"The Asian strategy that our predecessors created in their time has been the right choice," CEO Pekka Vauramo said during the carrier's 2018 Annual General Meeting (AGM). "The strategy of the past few years, built on accelerated growth, improving customer and people experience and on renewal, has taken Finnair forward. Our growth continues: We have now made decisions to receive two A350s ahead of the original delivery schedule."
As it stands, Vaurumo said one A350-900, originally due in 2023, will now deliver in 2019 while another, due in 2022, had now been brought forward to 2020. The change means the carrier's remaining eight A350-900s will deliver as follows: one in the last quarter of 2018, two in 2019, two in 2020, two in 2021, and one in 2022.
Finnair currently operates eleven A350-900s on flights to Thailand, the United Kingdom, Cuba, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, China, and Mexico.
