md80forum
5th Oct 1999, 12:57
After only one year under full Scandinavian SAS ownership, Finnish Air Botnia loses big and gives up numerous destinations in Finland, effective 01NOV.
The airline operated ex-Brit Air SF340's and ex-SAS F28's to feed SAS and Lufthansa in Helsinki, but is now redrawing its whole network to feed the alliance through Stockholm instead.
The airline withdraws entirely from eastern Finland and will concentrate on western regional centers in Finland like Oulu, Vaasa and Turku. A new F28 op Turku-CPH will start 01NOV.
The autonomous Aland isles between Finland and Sweden are also offered a service to Stockholm by Air Botnia. It was cancelled by state-controlled Finnair due to low factors in early 90's. The short hop to Stockholm-Arlanda has since been operated twice daily by a Bandeirante owned by the local Landsskapsstyrelsen government, but their pilots have been offered new jobs with Air Botnia.
In Finland, Finnair, now a partner of Oneworld, will apparently keep its monopoly status in this remote corner of Europe for many years to come.
Jan-Erik Andelin
MD80 INTERNATIONAL FORUM, Helsinki http://surf.to/md80
[This message has been edited by md80forum (edited 05 October 1999).]
The airline operated ex-Brit Air SF340's and ex-SAS F28's to feed SAS and Lufthansa in Helsinki, but is now redrawing its whole network to feed the alliance through Stockholm instead.
The airline withdraws entirely from eastern Finland and will concentrate on western regional centers in Finland like Oulu, Vaasa and Turku. A new F28 op Turku-CPH will start 01NOV.
The autonomous Aland isles between Finland and Sweden are also offered a service to Stockholm by Air Botnia. It was cancelled by state-controlled Finnair due to low factors in early 90's. The short hop to Stockholm-Arlanda has since been operated twice daily by a Bandeirante owned by the local Landsskapsstyrelsen government, but their pilots have been offered new jobs with Air Botnia.
In Finland, Finnair, now a partner of Oneworld, will apparently keep its monopoly status in this remote corner of Europe for many years to come.
Jan-Erik Andelin
MD80 INTERNATIONAL FORUM, Helsinki http://surf.to/md80
[This message has been edited by md80forum (edited 05 October 1999).]