TUI fly Nordic is a

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headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and is a part of the

TUI Group TUI Group is a German leisure, travel and tourism company. TUI is an acronym for ''Touristik Union International'' ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to ...

. 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

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. In 1996 the charter part of the airline was taken over by the Swedish tour operator Fritidsresor and was renamed to Blue Scandinavia. Following the acquisition of Fritidsresor by Thomson in 1998 the airline was rebranded as Britannia Nordic. After

Preussag TUI Group is a German leisure, travel and tourism company. TUI is an acronym for ''Touristik Union International'' ("Tourism Union International"). TUI AG was known as Preussag AG until 1997 when the company changed its activities from mining to ...

(TUI) acquired the Thomson Group in 2000 the airline was rebranded as TUI fly Nordic in 2005. In 2015 the TUI Group announced that all five of its airline subsidiaries would be rebranded as TUI Airlines, whilst keeping their separate Air Operators Certificate, taking about three years to complete. As of 2017, most aircraft have been repainted and rebranded with the new "Dynamic Wave" livery and name.

Destinations

Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar, Blue Scandinavia JP5955232

Boeing 757-236, Britannia Airways AN0184351

As of October 2020, TUI fly Nordic serves the following destinations:

Fleet

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Current fleet

As of August 2022, the TUI fly Nordic fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Former fleet

TUI fly Nordic formerly operated the following aircraft:

Fleet development

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.

References

External links

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TUI Airlines Group
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