Finncomm Airlines
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| Finncomm Airlines | ||
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| IATA FC |
ICAO FCM |
Callsign FINNCOMM |
| Founded | 1993 | |
| Hubs | Helsinki-Vantaa Airport | |
| Fleet size | 11 (+3 orders) | |
| Destinations | 17 | |
| Headquarters | Seinäjoki, Finland | |
| Key people | Juhani Pakari, CEO | |
| Website: http://www.fc.fi/ | ||
Finnish Commuter Airlines Oy, trading as Finncomm Airlines, is a regional airline based in Seinäjoki, Finland. The headquarters is located at Seinäjoki Airport but with a main base and hub at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport.[1] From Helsinki they fly to Estonia, Germany and 15 different destinations in Finland.
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[edit] History
The airline started operations in 1993. Co-operation with Finnair began in 1998 when Finncomm started to provide Swedish airline Golden Air with staff, flight planning, operations control and marketing functions in Finland. It has over 200 employees (as of March 2007).[1]
The airline carried over 600,000 passengers in 2007 and over 870,000 in 2008.
Finncomm is co-operating with Finnair providing feeder traffic for their route network. They also offer a point-to-point network on domestic flights as they fly to 16 destinations in Finland. .
Finncomm is also a member airline of European Regions Airline Association.
Due to a one incident in late 2006, the Finnish Civil Aviation Authority ordered some changes for the Finncomm's operating procedures and temporarily increased their weather minimums in ATR operations. The incident is under investigation and some re-training was ordered by Finnish Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to get pilots used for new operating procedures and temporarily slightly increased weather minimus in ATR operations until all ATR crews are trained. Nowadays those restrictions are lifted and operations are back to normal again. [2]
[edit] Destinations
Finncomm Airlines operates the following services (as of August 2007):[3]
[edit] Domestic
- Enontekiö (Enontekiö Airport) (Seasonal)
- Helsinki (Helsinki-Vantaa Airport)
- Joensuu (Joensuu Airport)
- Jyväskylä (Jyväskylä Airport)
- Kemi/Tornio (Kemi-Tornio Airport)
- Kittilä (Kittilä Airport) (21.02.2009 13.04.2009)[4]
- Kokkola/Jakobstad/Kronoby (Kronoby Airport)
- Kuopio (Kuopio Airport)
- Kuusamo (Kuusamo Airport) (Seasonal)
- Pori (Pori Airport)
- Savonlinna (Savonlinna Airport) (seasonal)
- Seinäjoki (Seinäjoki Airport)
- Tampere (Tampere-Pirkkala Airport)
- Turku (Turku Airport)
- Vaasa (Vaasa Airport)
- Varkaus (Varkaus Airport)
[edit] Germany
[edit] Estonia
- Tallinn (Tallinn Airport) (operates only with Finnair's codes)
[edit] Fleet
The Finncomm Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft (as of 11 November 2008) [1]:
On order: 3 ATR 72-500[5]
On 13 June 2005 the airline placed a firm order for 8 ATR 42-500 aircraft (with a further 8 options). However, Finncomm only received 4 ATR42s which after the remaining order for another 4 aircraft were converted for bigger ATR72. Finncomm also agreed to buy another 3 ATR72s so the total number of ATR aircraft will be 11 by the end of 2009. The initial aircraft replaced the Golden Air current fleet of Saab 340 aircraft that were operated by Finncomm on Finnish routes, feeding Finnair's Helsinki hub and operating on Finncomm's regional routes. Finncomm also took over all routes which were operated by the Aero Airlines. Total contract value, including options, is around $250 million, with deliveries in the 2005 to 2009 time period. [6] Finncomm have announced plans to possess 16 ATR-500 series aircraft by 2011, suggesting they plan to convert at least 3 of their options into firm orders.[7]
[edit] External links
- Finncomm Airlines official website
- Finncomm Airlines Fleet
- Finnish aviation authority curbs Finncomm turboprop pilots' rights (2007)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Flight International 3 April 2007
- ^ YLE Uutiset (2007-02-18). "Finncomm aloittanut lentäjiensä täydennyskoulutuksen (in Finnish)". Yleisradio Oy. http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/haku.php?action=page&id=241670. Retrieved on 2007-06-11.
- ^ "Finncomm Destinations". http://www.fc.fi/destinations/. Retrieved on 2007-08-25.
- ^ http://www.fc.fi/info/tiedotteet/finncomm_avaa_reitin_tampereelta_kittilaan/
- ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
- ^ Air International, July 2005
- ^ http://www.fc.fi/company_info/news/9th_atr_to_finncomm_fleet/
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