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Mar 15, 2022 (newstodate): Iceland's cargo airline Bluebird Nordic has signed a new GSSA contract with NordicGSA, member of the ECS Group.
   Under the contract, NordicGSA will provide sales and marketing of Bluebird Nordic's five weekly flight rotations between Billund in Denmark and Keflavík Airport on Iceland, offering import distribution operations to destinations in Northern Germany, Belgium, and France.
   According to Bluebird Nordic, shipments carried on the route mainly comprise fresh seafood, fruit and vegetables, clothing, electronics, and other general freight.
   With the first flight on January 3, 2022, Bluebird Nordic  is online at Billund with flights coming in from Keflavik to Billund, continuing to Bonn/Cologne Airport and returning along the same route in a cooperation with UPS that has long been serving the route between Billund and Cologne with an ATP aircraft operated by West Atlantic.
   Bluebird Nordic is serving the route with a Boeing 737-800 converted freighter. Billund Airport became a steady UPS destination from March 14, 2011, when the integrator revised its set-up for freighter services, replacing Malmo Airport with Billund.  
   Bluebird Nordic was acquired 100 percent in January 2020 by Lithuania's Avia Solutions Group that also comprises AviaAM Leasing.
   Bluebird Nordic is to take in a total of 25 Boeing 737-800 converted freighters till 2024, adding to its existing fleet comprising one Boeing 737-300, seven Boeing 737-400 freighters and now also two Boeing 737-800.
   The carrier is also to build up capacity in the wide-body cargo segment, signing a lease agreement in January this year with Dublin-based lessor STLC Europe Twenty Five Leasing Ltd for two Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft to be converted to cargo version and offered in the airfreight market by 2024.