is an
Airline based in
Helsinki ,
Finland . It is a
Regional Airline Feed ing into the
Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)
Network via
Stockholm 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
Kastrup Airport , Copenhagen and
Stockholm-Arlanda Airport .
The 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 three most profitable destinations of Flying Finn, these were Oulu, Kuopio and Vaasa.
It became the first regional member of
Star Alliance on
3 November 2004 .
Further information see
Blue1 Destinations
The Blue1 fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2006):
