Blue1

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Blue1 is an airline based in Helsinki, Finland. It is a regional airline feeding into the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) network via Stockholm and Copenhagen from five cities in Finland. It also operates services from Helsinki to domestic destinations as well as to several cities in Europe. Its main base is Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, with hubs at Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen and Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.

Contents

1 History
2 Destinations
3 Fleet
4 External links

History

The airline was established in 1987 and started operations in 1988 as Air Botnia. It was purchased by SAS in January 1998. In January 2004, when the first low cost regional airline in Finland, Flying Finn went bankrupt, the airline was rebranded as Blue1. It started flights within a few months to the most profitable destinations of Flying Finn. First destination was Oulu, later came Kuopio, Rovaniemi and Vaasa.

It became the first regional member of Star Alliance on 3 November 2004.

Destinations

Belgium
*Brussels (Brussels Airport) (Starts in 2006 again)
Denmark
*Copenhagen (Copenhagen Airport)
Finland
*Helsinki (Helsinki-Vantaa Airport)
*Kuopio
*Oulu (Oulu Airport)
*Rovaniemi
*Tampere (Tampere-Pirkkala Airport)
*Turku (Turku Airport)
*Vaasa
France
*Nice (Cote d'Azur International Airport)
*Paris (Charles de Gaulle International Airport)
Germany
*Berlin (Tegel International Airport)
*Hamburg (Hamburg Airport)
Greece
*Athens (Athens International Airport, "Eleftherios Venizelos")
Hungary
*Budapest (Budapest Ferihegy International Airport)
Ireland
*Dublin (Dublin Airport)
Italy
*Rome (Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport)
Netherlands
*Amsterdam (Amsterdam Schiphol Airport)
Norway
*Oslo (Oslo Airport, Gardermoen)
Poland
*Warsaw (Warsaw Frederic Chopin Airport)
Spain
*Barcelona (Barcelona International Airport)
Sweden
*Gothenburg (Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport)
*Stockholm (Stockholm-Arlanda Airport)
Switzerland
*Zürich (Zürich International Airport)
United Kingdom
*London (London Heathrow Airport)

Fleet

The Blue1 fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2006):

External links

Members of the SAS Group
Scandinavian Airlines • SAS Braathens • Widerøe • Blue1 • Spanair • airBaltic Affiliated Airlines: Estonian Air • Air Greenland • Skyways Radisson SAS • Country Inn • Park Inn • Regent Hotels'''

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Members of the Star Alliance

Air Canada • Air New Zealand • ANA • Asiana Airlines • Austrian Airlines • bmi
LOT Polish Airlines • Lufthansa • Scandinavian Airlines • Singapore Airlines • South African Airways
Spanair • Swiss • TAP Portugal • Thai Airways • United Airlines • US Airways • Varig
Regional members: Adria Airways • Blue1 • Croatia Airlines
Future members: Air China • Shanghai Airlines
Former members: Ansett Australia • Mexicana

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