TUIfly Nordic AB (formerly Blue Scandinavia AB and Britannia Nordic AB) is a

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headquartered in

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, and is a part of the

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. It operates short, medium and long-haul flights to leisure destinations from several airports in the

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, 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

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operating both charter and scheduled flights to destinations around

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. 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

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in 1998 the airline was renamed Britannia Nordic. After

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(TUI) acquired the Thomson Group in 2000 the airline was renamed TUI fly Nordic in 2005. 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.

has 70

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s on order for the group.Boeing 737 Orders & Deliveries
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/ref> with the remaining variants unspecified as of June 2017. These will be used for both replacement of older aircraft and further expansion. TUI fly Nordic was scheduled to receive its first of five

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in February 2018.

Destinations

, TUI fly Nordic flies (or has flown) to the following destinations:

Fleet

Current fleet

, TUI fly Nordic operates an all-

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fleet composed of the following aircraft:

Former fleet

In the past, TUI fly Nordic (and its predecessor Blue Scandinavia) previously operated the following aircraft:

References

External links

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TUI Airlines Group
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