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Amapola Flyg AB was established and started operations in 2004 to take over postal services previously operated by Falcon Air. It is wholly owned by Salenia (a Swedish investment company) and has some 50 employees.
Amapola operated freight services on behalf of the Swedish postal service, Jetpak and MiniLiner from Maastricht Aachen Airport and its main base at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.
On July 1, 2018, Amapola Flyg began passenger air traffic with regional routes in Sweden. In April 2021, the airline started flights in Finland from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport to Joensuu, on behalf of the Finnish State traffic authority Traficom. The airline operated the Dublin to Donegal PSO (Public Service Obligation) service from July 2021 to February 2022, following the collapse of Irish airline Stobart Air.
Amapola operated freight services on behalf of the Swedish postal service as their exclusive operator between 2004 and 2019.
Following the bankruptcy of Nextjet, On June 1, 2018, the Swedish Transport Administration (Trafikverket) announced Amapola Flyg's takeover of air services on several public service obligation routes to Norrland. In October 2023, Amapola was awarded another contract by the Swedish Transport Administration to operate domestic flights on twelve routes from 2023 to 2027. These routes, include Gällivare–Kramfors–Arlanda and Hemavan–Arvidsjaur–Vilhelmina–Lycksele–Arlanda.
Amapola changed its name to PopulAir as part of a rebranding effort in October 2023. This change was accompanied by a new green and white livery for its Fokker 50 aircraft. In October 2024, PopulAir relocated its operations at Arlanda Airport to Terminal 3
From Wikipedia’s article on PopulAir, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5