In late 2004 Britannia Airways AB/Britannia Nordic - still trading as Britannia (yet with swedish-registered planes) - started flying partly with the titles of the Scandinavian tour operators it was flying for.
Fritidsresor is the Swedish tour operator which was at the origin of the split of the scheduled and charter operations of Transwede in 1996. The charter part started trading under the Transwede Leisure name, which quickly became Blue Scandinavia, the predecessor of Britannia Sweden, a period from which it still retains its 'Bluescan' radio callsign.
StarTour is a Norwegian tour operator which became part of the TUI Group in the early 2000s; the airline is indeed also flying from Norway as well as Finland. The side on which the titles were applied varied as well; it is indicated here with the 'port side|starboard side' pattern, with FR for Fritidsresor and ST for StarTour.
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