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Apr 25, 2019 (newstodate): The Estonian carrier Nordica is increasing its volume of flights despite the pull-out from most of its former Estonian route network at Tallinn Airport.
   By the latter part of 2018, growing competition from Latvia's airBaltic forced Nordic to develop a supplementary strategy of seeking bases outside Estonia, and allocating more capacity to the ACMI market.
   During January-March 2019, Nordica has thus reduced its ex-Tallinn flight volume by 22 percent, y-o-y, to only 2,000, while its over-all flights volume increased by six percent to 7,500 flights during the same period.
   Today, Nordica's largest ACMI customer is SAS with seven  ATR 72-600 aircraft operating on regional routes, primarily out of Copenhagen Airport, under the brand name of Regional Jet.
   LOT, holding 49 percent of the stake in Regional Jet, is also a strong ACMI partner, and in 2019 Nordica landed a contract with Air Serbia covering one CRJ900 aircraft for a four-month period.
   In the fleet are now 19 aircraft including seven ATR 72-600, two CRJ700, and 10 CRJ900, five of which are operated for LOT.