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Feb 03, 2012 (newstodate): Launched only in November 2011, the services by Flybe Nordic between Estonia and Finland will be closed down by the end of February 2012.
Part of Flybe Nordic's high-profiled Nordic and Baltic strategy, the routes were to serve Tallinn Airport with services to Vaasa, Oulu, Turku and Tampere, but with the recent decision by Flybe Nordic only the route between Tallinn and Stockholm Bromma Airport, in Sweden, seems to survive.
-We are naturally disappointed not to be able to maintain these new routes from the Finnish regions. These Tallinn routes may have delivered an acceptable level of growth in time to sustain them, but since Flybe is not the beneficiary of public subsidy like the national railway, for example, we do not have the time to wait, says Mike Rutter, Flybe Europe MD.
-We remain optimistic that, when market conditions become more favorable, we will have the opportunity to return to those routes. For now, we must move to routes which have greater and more immediate growth prospects.
Part of Flybe Nordic's high-profiled Nordic and Baltic strategy, the routes were to serve Tallinn Airport with services to Vaasa, Oulu, Turku and Tampere, but with the recent decision by Flybe Nordic only the route between Tallinn and Stockholm Bromma Airport, in Sweden, seems to survive.
-We are naturally disappointed not to be able to maintain these new routes from the Finnish regions. These Tallinn routes may have delivered an acceptable level of growth in time to sustain them, but since Flybe is not the beneficiary of public subsidy like the national railway, for example, we do not have the time to wait, says Mike Rutter, Flybe Europe MD.
-We remain optimistic that, when market conditions become more favorable, we will have the opportunity to return to those routes. For now, we must move to routes which have greater and more immediate growth prospects.