TUIfly Nordic
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| IATA code : | 6B |
| ICAO code : | BLX |
| Call sign : | BLUESCAN |
| Founding: | 2005 |
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Stockholm , Sweden
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| Home airport : | Stockholm / Arlanda |
| Company form: | Corporation |
| IATA prefix code : | 951 |
| Management: | Jens Wigen ( CEO ) |
| Alliance : | TUI Airlines |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | international |
| Website: | www.tuiflynordic.se |
TUIfly Nordic , formerly Britannia Airways, AB , is a Swedish charter airline based in Stockholm and based at Stockholm / Arlanda Airport . It is a member of the TUI Airlines group .
history
TUIfly Nordic emerged from the Swedish airline Transwede , which was founded in 1985 . At the beginning of 1996 the charter business of Transwede was spun off as an independent company (Transwede Leisure, AB) and sold to the Swedish tour operator Fritidsresor , which renamed the airline in October 1996 to Blue Scandinavia .
In December 1997 Fritidsresor was bought by the British Thomson Travel Group, which was also the owner of the airline Britannia Airways . Thomson Travel integrated Blue Scandinavia into the group under the name Britannia Airways AB (often also called Britannia Sweden or Britannia Nordic to distinguish it from the British parent company of the same name). In 2000 the Thomson Group was taken over by Preussag , today's TUI .
From mid-2005, all TUI airlines were given new names with the uniform ending “ fly ”. In the course of this marketing campaign, Britannia Airways AB was renamed Thomsonfly in November 2005 and then TUIfly Nordic in May 2006 .
As it became known in May 2015, in the future all airlines of the group of companies (with the exception of Corsair International , which is to be sold) will appear under the new uniform name TUI . The change was made on the one hand for marketing reasons , on the other hand, personnel and aircraft can be deployed so easily within the entire group.
The grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 hit TUIfly Nordic in particular, as at that time they only operated machines of this type and had given all Boeing 737-800s to the group sisters. The flights were initially carried out by the sister companies and various subcharter providers, shortly afterwards two aircraft were taken over by TUI Airways UK as replacements .
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As of February 2020, the TUIfly Nordic fleet consists of five aircraft with an average age of 10.7 years.
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 2 | inactive | 189 | |
| Boeing 737-800 | 1 | 189 | ||
| Boeing 767-300 | 2 | one inactive | 328 | |
| total | 5 |
Some of the planes were covered with the logos of Fritidsresor.se and StarTour.no , which underlined the importance of these two tour operators as partners of TUIfly Nordic.
See also
Web links
- TUIfly Nordic website (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leisure Airlines of Europe, K.Vomhof, UK 2001
- ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Why Tui will fly with Tui in the future, accessed on May 21, 2015
- ↑ TUIfly Nordic Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
- ↑ TUIfly Nordic Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Accessed January 7, 2020 (English).
