Finncomm Airlines

Finncomm Airlines
IATA code :	FC
ICAO code :	FCM
Call sign :	FINNCOMM
Founding:	1993
Operation stopped:	2011
Seat:	Seinäjoki , Finland
Turnstile :	Helsinki
Fleet size:	16
Aims:	National and international
Finncomm Airlines ceased operations in 2011. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Finncomm Airlines was a private Finnish airline based in Seinäjoki .

history

The company was founded in 1993 by father Heikki and his son Juhani Pakari as Air Botnia (today's Blue1 ).

In 1996 they sold their shares in SAS , founded an air taxi company and had been cooperating with Finnair since 1998 . Since then, Finncomm has been flying feeder services on behalf of Finnair, among other things. Some routes were exclusively operated by Finncomm. Finncomm had around 165 employees in 2006.

In July 2011 it became known that Finncomm had been bought out by a joint venture between Flybe and Finnair and that it will operate as the new Flybe Nordic company in the future .

Destinations

Finncomm operated international routes from Finland to Oslo , Norrköping , Tallinn and Stuttgart . In addition, numerous Finnish cities are served, such as Jyväskylä , Joensuu , Kemi-Tornio , Kokkola-Jakobstad , Kuopio , Kuusamo , Pori , Savonlinna , Tampere , Turku , Vaasa or Varkaus . The flight schedule was reduced on weekends. Ski resorts in the far north such as Enontekiö , Kittilä and Kuusamo were also served seasonally .

fleet

An Embraer 145 from Finncomm 2009

As of July 2011, the Finncomm fleet consisted of 14 aircraft:

• 4 ATR 42-500
• 8 ATR 72-500
• 2 Embraer 170

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

Web links

Commons : Finncomm Airlines  - Collection of Images

• Finncom Airlines. (No longer available online.) July 2011, archived from the original on July 9, 2011 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 (English, Finncomm website). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andrew Trotman: Flybe buys Finnish airline following joint-venture with Finnair. In: The Telegraph. The Daily Telegraph , July 1, 2011, accessed June 21, 2015 .  
2. ↑ Fleet. (No longer available online.) Finncomm Airlines, July 2011, archived from the original on July 24, 2011 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 (English, fleet in July 2011).