PICTURE: Airbus delivers Finnair's first A350

Airbus has formally handed over a first A350 to the widebody twinjet type's first European operator, Finnair. The Helsinki-based Oneworld carrier has ordered a total of 19 baseline A350-900s. Three more are to be delivered by year-end, seven in 2016-17, and the other eight by 2023, Finnair says. Regular passenger flights are to begin on 9 October, with the aircraft being used initially on European routes, to Amsterdam and Oslo, for crew familiarisation. (www.flightglobal.com) More...