Blue1 is a low-cost airline based in Helsinki, Finland. It is a regional airline feeding into the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) network via Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen from five cities in Finland. It also operates services from Helsinki to domestic destinations as well as to several cities in Europe. Its main base is Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, with hubs at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.The Blue1 airline was established in 1987 and started operations in 1988 as Air Botnia. It was purchased by SAS in January 1998. In January 2004, when the first low cost regional airline in Finland, Flying Finn went bankrupt, the airline was rebranded as Blue1. It started flights within a few months to the most profitable destinations of Flying Finn. First destination was Oulu, later came Kuopio, Rovaniemi and Vaasa.
It became the first regional member of Star Alliance on 3 November 2004. In 2006 the airline opened up new routes to 11 European destinations.
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Blue1 flies to the following countries(as of April 2008) :
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Blue1 flies to the following cities(as of April 2008) :
Copenhagen, Helsinki, Kittilä, Kuopio, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Tampere, Turku, Vaasa, Nice, Paris, Hamburg, Athens, Milan, Rome, Oslo, Warsaw, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Zürich, London
Online booking can be made at the official website of Blue1
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