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Finnair's first Airbus A340 had its inaugural flight on Monday morning 19 June from Helsinki to Kuopio in central Finland. The wide-bodied, former Virgin Atlantic 295-seat aircraft joined the Finnair fleet last week and will begin operating in Finland. The aircraft will fly 30 domestic flights before it is transferred to its actual route between Helsinki and Shanghai.

The 23-year history of the Boeing MD-80 in Finnair's blue and white colours came to a close on July 3, 2006. The MD-80 fleet, which numbered 25 at its peak, has flown almost a million hours and carried an estimated 60 million passengers on Finnair scheduled and leisure flights to different parts of Europe.