Finnair + airlines operating for Finnair
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Finnair has lately focused a lot into the Asian sector, creating Helsinki into a major hub in traffic between Europe and Asia.
Finnair has bought a lot of new planes for this purpose and this is one of them. OH-LWI is an Airbus A350-941 which was delivered
to Finnair in June 2017.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 18.5.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
OH-LWC is a similar Airbus A350-900 like the one pictured above. It was delivered to Finnair in November 2015. It has been used lately
not only in Asian traffic, but also on congested European routes such as Helsinki to London Heathrow.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 18.5.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
OH-LWK is a similar Airbus A350-900 like the ones pictured above. It was delivered to Finnair in June 2017 and it has lately been often
flying between Helsinki and Beijing.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 18.5.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
OH-LWB is also a similar Airbus A350-900 but it has a large Oneworld alliance advertisement sticker. It was delivered to Finnair in
December 2015. Here we see it braking immediately after landing.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 18.5.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
OH-LZT is an Airbus A321 which Finnair uses in its European traffic. It is an A321 version 200 machine which Finnair got as new in
December 2017. In the background one of Finnair's Airbus A330 machines.
Picture from Helsinki Vantaa airport 26.3.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
For several years, at least from 1997 to 2013 Finnair had Boeing B757-200 planes which it used for long-haul leisure flights, for example from
Helsinki to Thailand or to Azores, to Egypt, Toronto, and even to Brazil. The last B757 Finnair flight took place from Helsinki to Fuerteventura 19.1.2014.
Passengers hated these aircraft. Not because they would be bad quality planes, but because Finnair had packed to seats so close to each other and
had used so uncomfortable chairs that especially for the long-legged traveller they were sheer torture. Leisure flight customers called them "marsuhäkki",
guinea pig cage. Finnair had three of them. Here is one of them, OH-LBR. Its first flight was in October 1997 and Finnair used it from late 1997
until 2013 with the exception that it was rented to XL Airways France for a couple of months during 2007. After Finnair got rid of it, OH-LBR
became EI-LBR and has been used in Ireland for Aer Lingus and ASL Airlines Ireland. In 2019 it's still in use by Aer Lingus.
Picture from João Paulo II Airport located on the island of São Miguel, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores 13.4.2009 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Rrrrrr... I'm just here flapping my wings... no, rotating my propellers. It feels so good when they rub my back and give my wings a good shower :-D
One of Finnair's ATR 72 machines getting a deicing treatment at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Picture 8.11.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Its colleague went already and now it would be OH-ATL's turn to get a good back rubbing... err... deicing... :-D
ATR 72 OH-ATL queuing into a deicing treatment at Helsinki-Vantaa airport. Picture 8.11.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Widerøe
Widerøe Embraer ERJ-190-E2 LN-WEA. Widerøe flies on behalf of Finnair the routes Helsinki-Bergen, Helsinki-Trondheim
and Helsinki-Tromsø using these new
Embraer ERJ-190-E2 planes.
Picture from Helsinki-Vantaa airport 18.5.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Another one of Widerøe's Embraer ERJ-190-E2 machines, LN-WEC. For more pictures of Widerøe planes, see the section of SAS and companies flying for SAS.
Picture from Helsinki-Vantaa airport 18.5.2018 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Nordic Regional Airlines NORRA
Finnair no longer operates its smallest machines itself. The whole ATR-72 fleet has been retaped with the texts Nordic Regional Airlines NORRA
and NORRA is also operating the whole of Finnair's Embraer 190 fleet, although the Embraers still retain their Finnair logos on the outside
of the planes. Formerly the same routes now operated by NORRA were operated by FlyBe on behalf of Finnair and even before that by Aero, which
was a Finnair subsidiary company registered in Estonia. OH-ATO is an ATR-72 version 500 which was delivered to FlyBe in November 2011. NORRA took
it over in the summer of 2015 as FlyBe withdrew itself from the Finnish market.
As we speak, Finnair is in the process of getting rid of the Norra tapings at the outside of the ATR 72 planes and replacing them with large FINNAIR
tapings, as can be already seen above on this page.
Picture from Helsinki-Vantaa airport 3.4.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
OH-LKK is an Embraer ERJ190LR. It was delivered to Finnair as new in 2007. Although it is a Finnair plane and in Finnair's colours, it is
operated by Nordic Regional Airlines NORRA. NORRA is a daughter company of the Danish regional airline DAT. DAT owns 60% and Finnair 40%
of NORRA.
Picture from Helsinki-Vantaa airport 26.3.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
SE-MDC is an ATR72 version 500 machine which Finnair rented from DAT in November 2018 because Finnair had a serious shortage of ATR planes
operated by Norra, the daughter company of DAT. The same machine has also been flying for BRA (Flygbra or Braathens Regional Airlines).
Picture from Helsinki-Vantaa airport 26.3.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.
Finncomm Airlines
Finncomm Airlines was a privately owned airline founded in 1993. Since 1998 Finncomm flew feeder routes for Finnair as well as codeshare
flights. Finnair gave many of its own less frquented routes to Finncom. In 2011 Finnair and Flybe bought the airline and changed its name to
Flybe Nordic AB. In Finland the name Flybe Finland was the operational name used.
This OH-ATC was an ATR-42 version 500. Finncomm had four of them. This picture is from Vaasa airport 15.8.2008 by Ilkka Siissalo.
The same OH-ATC ATR-42 as shown above.
Picture from Vaasa airport 15.8.2008 by Ilkka Siissalo.
NyxAir
This totally white Saab 2000 aircraft ES-NSH is owned and operated by the Estonian airline NyxAir. NyxAir operates on behalf of Finnair some
Finnish domestic flights, which have so little reservations that Finnair's own machines are too big for such operations. NyxAir flies from
Helsinki-Vantaa airport for example to Kokkola-Pietarsaari and also to Tallinn and Kuressaare in Estonia. This machine was delivered as new to
the Swiss company Crossair in 1996. When Crossair's parent company Swissair went bankrupt, they got rid of all of their small Saab 340 and
Saab 2000 machines and instead took over some of Swissair' larger aircraft. Crossair's name was changed to Swiss (Swiss International Airlines).
2004 to 2015 this machine has been flying for Carpatair, Darwin Airline, Etihad Regional and Loganair. Since September 2020 it has been with NyxAir.
Picture from Helsinki-Vantaa airport 16.3.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.