14.12.2004
New route to northern Finland

In the new year, Danish business people and tourists can travel by air directly to northern Finland, when Finnish airline Blue 1 starts scheduled services between Copenhagen and Oulu (Uleåborg) on the Finnish west coast on 31 January. The airline will offer a daily flight five days a week using Avro RJ100 jets which seat 99 passengers. The airline Blue 1 is wholly owned by SAS.

Oulu has 125,000 inhabitants, and is a high-tech-industry and university city in which Nokia alone has more than 4,000 employees, and with some 550 companies based in Scandinavia’s oldest scientific park: Technopolis. In terms of population, the region is the youngest and fastest growing in Finland. The airport in Oulo is the second largest in Finland.