Finist'air is a French
regional airline
A regional airline is a general classification of airline which typically operates scheduled passenger air service, using regional aircraft, between communities lacking sufficient demand or infrastructure to attract mainline flights. In North ...
based at
Brest Bretagne Airport. It provides passenger service,
air taxi
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In 2001 air taxi operations were promoted in the United States by a NASA and aerospace industry study on the potential Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS) an ...
, and
freight transport
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and currently transports 3,000 passengers annually.
History
Finist'air was founded in 1981 by the government of the
Finistère
Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090. departément to transport passengers between
Ouessant (in the
Ponant Islands Geography
The french name ''ponant'' is the western cardinal point. It is an archaic French naval term for West, the opposite of ''Levant''.
By extension :
# the ''Ponant Sea'' could refer to the Atlantic Ocean (western sea area in relation to Fr ...
) and
Brest
Brest may refer to:
Places
*Brest, Belarus
**Brest Region
**Brest Airport
**Brest Fortress
*Brest, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria
*Břest, Czech Republic
*Brest, France
**Arrondissement of Brest
**Brest Bretagne Airport
** Château de Brest
*Brest, ...
.
Destinations
Two daily flights are scheduled on a Brest-Ouessant route.
Fleet
The airline has one new
Cessna 208 Caravan.
External links
Finist'air
Airlines of France
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