Fritidsresor.se | StarTour.no

Fritidsresor.se | StarTour.no  
SE-DUP B757-236 Britannia Nordic » TUIfly Nordic  [+] FR|FR 2005-07
SE-DZH B737-804 Britannia Nordic  [+] ST|FR 2004-05
SE-DZI B737-804 Britannia Nordic  [+] FR|ST 2004-06
SE-DZK B737-804 Britannia Nordic » TUIfly Nordic  [+] FR|ST 2004-06
SE-DZN B737-804 TUIfly Nordic  [+] ST|FR 2006-08

In late 2004 Britannia Airways AB/Britannia Nordic - while still trading simply as Britannia (yet with swedish-registered planes) - started flying partly with the titles of the tour operators it was flying for. Fritidsresor is the Swedish one which was at the origin of the split of the scheduled and charter operations of Transwede in 1996, the charter part trading under the Transwede Leisure name, which in turn quickly became Blue Scandinavia (the predecessor of Britannia Sweden), a period from which it still retains its 'Bluescan' radio callsign.

StarTour is the Norwegian tour operator which also became part of the TUI Group in the early 2000s; the airline is indeed also flying from Norway as well as Finland. The side on which the titles were applied varied as well; it is indicated here with the 'port side|starboard side' pattern, with FR for Fritidsresor and ST for StarTour.

Images  ©  Thomas Ingendorn (PMI) & Pertti Sipilä (HEL x2)
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