Delivery of the MSN0018 today (7th October) Finnair has become the first European operator of the A350 XWB. Finnair finally received Toulouse in the first of 19 A350 XWB in order, making it the first airline in Europe and the third in the world to operate the new aircraft. Qatar, the launch and Vietnam are the other two operating the same model. The aircraft on Finnair is set in a three-class layout with 297 seats, including 46 Business Class 43 Economy Comfort and 208 Economy. Finnair will begin with the commercial services of the A350 XWB later this week, with a European tour in Amsterdam and Oslo on 9 October. In addition, on November 21, 2015, will hold non-stop long-haul flights from Helsinki to Shanghai. The aircraft will join all Airbus airline's fleet totaled 45 aircraft in operation today consists of 30 A320 aircraft and 15 A330 / A340 family. "Finnair has enjoyed a long and successful working relationship with Airbus and the A350 takes...

The Boeing Company announced deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for the third quarter of 2015. Major program deliveries during the third quarter, including a delivery under operating lease (which is identified by parentheses), were as follows:

T he Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras reaches the sixth consecutive year as supporter of the ''Pink October'', the main social cause embraced by the company. To mark the beginning of the various actions of dissemination of prevention of breast cancer, the airline launches starting today a campaign on social networks with the hashtag #AzulmaisRosa. In it, passengers are aboard one of the two company's color pink or traveling with a flight attendant or pilot dressed in the color symbol of the campaign aircraft, are invited to make a picture, mark it with the hashtag and post it on the networks, always with Azul references in  ''Pink October''. These images may appear in the blue spaces on the internet or in the Azul Magazine, inflight magazine of the company, in the November issue. The company will select the best images to special threads in their fanpages on networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as well as look Azul se...

Azul Brazilian Airlines, Brazil’s largest carrier by cities served, announces today it has entered into an interline agreement with JetBlue that will link each other's networks and bring new flight options to travelers between Brasil and the Americas. Through the arrangement, Azul and JetBlue plan to offer the ease of single-ticket travel and one-stop baggage check-in for customers transferring between the airlines at Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport and Orlando International Airport. “I want to thank JetBlue for their support. This agreement expands our interline network in North America and the Caribbean. Together with JetBlue we can provide great connectivity and service for our customers”, said David Neeleman, founder and CEO of Azul. Tickets are available through all Azul’s sales channels. See more here .  Azul Brazilian Airlines, Brazil’s largest carrier by cities served, has a fleet of 136 aircraft, more than 11,000 employees, more...

Launching two new aircraft, the ACJ319neo and ACJ320neo, gives Airbus the ability to offer customers a corporate jet solution with more comfort, range and efficiency. They build on the widest and tallest cabin that is already the cornerstone of the family’s success around the world. Both aircraft capitalise on new engines now being developed for the modern A320 airliner family, as well as Sharklets and improvements in cabin comfort and fuel capacity. The more modern design of the A320 Family, which was conceived in the 1980s and has been continuously improved, enables it to better incorporate new technologies than older designs. As a result, the ACJ319neo will fly eight passengers 6,750nm/12,500 km, and the ACJ320neo 25 passengers 6,000nm/11,100 km, bringing even more city-pairs within nonstop range. Airbus pioneered the use of new engines and Sharklets, which, in addition to increasing range,  deliver a 16 per cent improvement in fuel efficiency on the ACJ320neo, compared...