Blue 1 (KF, Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)) will leave Star Alliance by the end of November 2012 given it will no longer operate scheduled services in its own right but only as a wet-lease operator for parent SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)) going forward.

Blue 1 (KF, Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)) will gradually be transformed into a wet-lease operator for parent SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK, Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH)) from November 1 with all of its flights to be sold under the SAS brand and SK flight numbers. Blue 1 is fully owned by SAS and currently operates a fleet of nine B717-200s. It also wet-leases two ATR 72-500s and four Saab 2000s from Golden Air (Sweden) (DC, Trollhättan Vänersborg (THN)) for regional services. Blue 1 mainly operates feeder services from Finnish airports to the SAS hubs at Copenhagen Kastrup (CPH), Oslo Gardermoen (OSL) and Stockholm Arlanda (ARN) as well as some limited domestic services in Finland and Sweden. During the summer season, Blue 1 has previously also operated some seasonal flights from Helsinki to the Mediterranean.

Air100 (Pori (POR)) has launched scheduled operations on September 26 offering up to four daily round-trips between Pori (POR) and Helsinki Vantaa (HEL). The domestic route had been left unserved since April 2012 when Flybe. Nordic (FC, Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)) had stopped services on the route. Pori is a city at the Finnish west coast with approximately 83000 inhabitants. Its only remaining scheduled route now had been a twice daily Blue 1 (KF, Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)) service to Stockholm Arlanda (ARN). Air100 uses Saab 340B OK-CCD (MSN 340B-161) on the route to Helsinki. Central Connect had terminated all of its own scheduled operations from Prague Vaclav Havel Ruzyne (PRG) in June due to poor financial performance.

Blue 1 (KF, Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)) has announced further network restructuring plans that will include a wide range of new feeder routes into the hubs of parent SAS Scandinavian Airlines (SK/Copenhagen Kastrup) at Copenhagen Kastrup and Stockholm Arlanda:
Helsinki-Berlin Tegel: 5x weekly B717-200 service resuming on April 30 (operates to Berlin Brandenburg International from June 3)
Kokkola/Pietarsaari-Stockholm Arlanda: daily Saab 2000 service starting on March 25 (operated by Golden Air (DC/Trollhättan))
Oulu-Stockholm Arlanda: weekdaily B717-200 service starting on March 26
Pori-Stockholm Arlanda: 2x daily Saab 2000 service starting on March 25 (operated by Golden Air)
From Copenhagen Kastrup it plans to add Kittilä, Kuopio, Lappeenranta, Oulu, Turku and Vaasa later this year. Blue 1 has however also given up its Helsinki-London Heathrow route on October 30.

Blue 1 (KF, Helsinki Vantaa (HEL)) has taken delivery of nine B717-200s and has replaced its MD-90-30 fleet. It has announced plans to withdraw its remaining five ARJ-85s from use by September and to cut 85 jobs in a network restructuring that will see Blue 1 concentrate more on domestic and regional routes then operating just its nine B717-200s and ATR 72s and Saab 2000s wet-leased from Golden Air (DC/Trollhattan). For this summer season, it has still added several new European routes:
Helsinki-Edinburgh: 2x weekly seasonal B717-200 service has started on April 29
Helsinki-Marseilles: 2x weekly seasonal B717-200 service has started on May 31
Helsinki-Pula: 2x weekly seasonal B717-200 service between May 28 and September 3
Helsinki-Tallinn: 6x weekly ATR 72-500 service has started on January 31 (operated by Golden Air)
Tampere-Copenhagen Kastrup: 2x daily Saab 2000 service starting on October 30 (operated by Golden Air)
As part of its network restructuring, Blue 1 will give up its routes from Helsinki to Tallinn (on August 1), Berlin Tegel (on August 6), Munich (on August 8), Amsterdam and Paris CDG (both on September 3). It has already terminated its routes from Helsinki to Biarritz, Gothenburg Landvetter, Milan Malpensa and Rome Fiumicino.