Blue 1 (Helsinki Vantaa) will take over three MD-90-30s from its parent SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK/Copenhagen Kastrup). It will use the new aircraft to launch twice weekly services from Helsinki to Athens, Barcelona, Paris CDG and Rome Fiumicino on March 3 and weekly services to Dublin, Madrid and Nice by the end of March. Blue 1 will also launch a new twice daily ARJ-85 service from Helsinki to London Stansted and a daily Saab 2000 service to Warsaw at the same time.