TUI fly Nordic

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TUIfly Nordic AB (formerly Blue Scandinavia AB and Britannia Nordic AB) is a charter airline headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a part of the TUI Group. It operates short, medium and long-haul flights to leisure destinations from several airports in the Nordic countries, on behalf of the tour operators TUI Danmark (Denmark), TUI Suomi (Finland), TUI Norge (Norway) and TUI Sverige (Sweden). In 2016, the airline carried approximately 1,500,000 passengers.

History

The airline was originally formed in 1985 as Transwede Airways operating both charter and scheduled flights to destinations around Europe. In 1996 the charter part of the airline was taken over by the Swedish tour operator Fritidsresor and was renamed Blue Scandinavia. Following the acquisition of Fritidsresor by Thomson in 1998 the airline was renamed Britannia Nordic. After Preussag (TUI) acquired the Thomson Group in 2000 the airline was renamed TUI fly Nordic in 2005.[1]

In 2015 the TUI Group announced that all five of its airline subsidiaries would be renamed TUI Airlines, whilst keeping their separate Air Operators Certificates, taking about three years to complete. As of 2017, most aircraft had been repainted and rebranded with the new "Dynamic Wave" livery and name.[2]

TUI Group has 70 737 MAXs on order for the group.[3] The order consists of 20 MAX 10 aircraft,[4] with the remaining variants unspecified as of June 2017.[4][3] These will be used for both replacement of older aircraft and further expansion. TUI fly Nordic was scheduled to receive its first of five Boeing 737 MAX 8 in February 2018.[5]

Destinations

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A former Blue Scandinavia Lockheed L-1011 TriStar parked at Faro Airport in 1997
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A former Britannia Nordic Boeing 757-200 taxiing at Stockholm Arlanda Airport in 1999

Template:As of, TUI fly Nordic flies (or has flown) to the following destinations:[6][7][8][9]

Country City Airport Notes Refs
Bulgaria Burgas Burgas Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Cape Verde Boa Vista Aristides Pereira International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Sal Amílcar Cabral International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Croatia Pula Pula Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Split Split Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Cyprus Larnaca Larnaca International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Denmark Copenhagen Copenhagen Airport [8]
Dominican Republic Punta Cana Punta Cana International Airport Template:Airline seasonal [10]
Egypt Hurghada Hurghada International Airport Terminated
Marsa Alam Marsa Alam International Airport Terminated
Finland Helsinki Helsinki Airport [9]
Greece Chania Chania International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Corfu Corfu International Airport Terminated
Heraklion Heraklion International Airport Terminated
Karpathos Karpathos Island National Airport
Kos Kos International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Rhodes Rhodes International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Samos Samos International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Zakynthos Zakynthos International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Ireland Cork Cork Airport Template:Airline hub
Dublin Dublin Airport Template:Airline hub
Shannon Shannon Airport Template:Airline hub
Italy Alghero Alghero–Fertilia Airport Terminated
Catania Catania–Fontanarossa Airport Terminated
Mauritius Plaine Magnien Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Norway Oslo Oslo Airport, Gardermoen [11]
Spain Fuerteventura Fuerteventura Airport Terminated
Lanzarote Lanzarote Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Las Palmas Gran Canaria Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Mahón Menorca Airport Terminated
Palma de Mallorca Palma de Mallorca Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Tenerife Tenerife-South Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Sweden Gothenburg Göteborg Landvetter Airport Template:Airline hub [7]
Malmö Malmö Airport Template:Airline seasonal [7]
Norrköping Norrköping Airport [12]
Örebro Örebro Airport Template:Airline seasonal [7]
Sälen Trysil Scandinavian Mountains Airport Terminated [13]
Stockholm Stockholm Arlanda Airport Template:Airline hub [7]
Umeå Umeå Airport Template:Airline seasonal [7]
Växjö Växjö/Kronoberg Airport Template:Airline seasonal [7]
Tanzania Zanzibar Abeid Amani Karume International Airport Template:Airline seasonal [7]
Turkey Antalya Antalya Airport Template:Airline seasonal
Dalaman Dalaman Airport Template:Airline seasonal

Fleet

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A TUI fly Nordic Boeing 737 MAX 8

Current fleet

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A TUI Fly Nordic Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner

Template:As of, TUI fly Nordic operates an all-Boeing fleet composed of the following aircraft:[14]

TUI fly Nordic fleet
Aircraft In service Orders Passengers Notes
P Y Total
Boeing 737 MAX 8 3 189 189
Boeing 787-9 1 63 282 345
Total 4

Former fleet

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A former TUI fly Nordic Boeing 757-200 in 2009

In the past, TUI fly Nordic (and its predecessor Blue Scandinavia) previously operated the following aircraft:Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

TUI fly Nordic former fleet
Aircraft Total Introduced Retired Notes
Boeing 737-800 18 1998 2021 [15]
Boeing 757-200 4 1998 2002
5 2005 2011
Boeing 767-300ER 3 1999 2002
3 2008 2021
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar 2 1996 1997
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 3 1996 1998

See also

References

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