TUIfly Nordic
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TUIfly Nordic formerly known as Britannia Nordic is a charter airline based in Sweden.It changed of name on 1st may 2006.
TUIfly Nordic is a part of the largest leisure fleet in Europe: together with six other airlines which are linked together by the family brand TUIfly, which is a subsidiary of the TUI Group, the largest tourism group in Europe. TUIfly groups Arkefly (Holland), Jetairfly (Belgium), Hapagfly and HLX.com (Germany), Corsairfly (France) and Thomsonfly (United Kingdom) with a fleet of more than hundred aircraft.
It operates holiday charter flights from airports in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland to fly holidaymakers travelling with the tour operators Fritidsresor, Finnmatkat and Star Tour. They have destinations in the Canary Islands, Egypt, the Mediterranean and Thailand.
Its main bases are Gardermoen Airport (OSL), Oslo, Landvetter International Airport (GOT), Gothenburg, Sturup Airport (MMX), Malmo, Arlanda Airport (ARN), Stockholm and Bergen Airport (BGO).
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History
The airline was originally formed in 1985 to handle the charter operation of Transwede Airways. During 1996 the charter part of the airline was taken over by Swedish tour operator Fritidsresor and renamed Blue Scandinavia. When Britannia Airways took control in 1998 following the acquisition of Fritidsresor by Thomson, the airline was renamed Britannia AB and later rebranded as Britannia Nordic. In 2000 Preussag (later TUI) acquired the Thomson Group.
In November, 2005 it got rebranded as Britanniafly and in May 2006 as TUIfly Nordic due to the new marketing strategy of the TUI Group that wants to regroup all its airline activities under the same alliance: TUIfly. As a result all the airlines under TUIfly were rebranded with the name best known in their local market or the name of the principal tour operator for which they operated flights. All the airlines, with the exception of HLX.com, acquired the suffix "-fly" and had their aircraft repainted in the light blue TUI colours with red TUI logo. In the case of TUIfly Nordic, sometimes the lettres 'Fritidsresor' are marked on the fuselage as it is their main touroprator they do chartered flights for.
Fleet
The TUIfly Nordic fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2006):
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