TUIfly Nordic has filed a one-time Oslo–Split rotation for late September and early October 2026, putting a Boeing 737 MAX 8 on the Scandinavian leisure carrier’s charter-style link between Norway’s capital and Croatia’s Dalmatian coast, AeroRoutes reports.
The published schedule is tightly framed. Flight BLX173 is listed from Oslo (OSL) at 06:40 to Split (SPU) at 09:30 on Friday, September 25, 2026, on the 737 MAX 8. The return, BLX174, leaves Split at 10:40 and arrives Oslo at 13:25 on Friday, October 2, 2026, again on the MAX 8. That pairing reads as a single outbound positioning or holiday peak followed by a return a week later, not a standing multi-weekly leisure pattern.
Oslo–Split is a classic Nordic winter-to-shoulder leisure lane: Norwegian travelers chasing Adriatic sun, and Croatian airports chasing charter and holiday-group peaks before the winter schedule locks in. Split’s seaside runway and short transfer times to the old town make it a favorite for tour operators even when frequencies stay thin.
Equipment choice matters on a sector of this length. The 737 MAX 8 gives TUIfly Nordic efficient narrowbody economics and enough range for a comfortable Scandinavia–Adriatic hop without stretching older 737 classics. For a one-off or near-one-off charter tag, the MAX also simplifies crew and maintenance commonality with the wider TUI group’s European MAX fleets.
Because AeroRoutes’ filing shows only the September 25 outbound and October 2 return, travelers should treat the city pair as opportunistic rather than a winter backbone. Additional dates—if any—would need fresh schedule drops. Still, the filing confirms that TUI’s Nordic unit continues to sprinkle MAX metal onto Mediterranean leisure spokes even outside the high summer peak.
For AvGeeks and route trackers, BLX173/174 is a small but clean data point: named airline, named type, named airports and exact bank times. For passengers already booked on TUI packages touching Oslo or Split that week, it is the metal they are likely to see on the apron—a Boeing 737 MAX 8 bridging Norway and the Adriatic for a tightly timed autumn window.
TUIfly Nordic’s BLX code is the operational clue that this is the Scandinavian leisure unit, not Germany-based TUIfly’s denser summer grid. One Friday outbound and a Friday return a week later is classic tour-operator metal: fly the group out, park or redeploy the jet, bring them home. Split’s SPU airport is built for exactly that pulse of leisure arrivals.
September 25 and October 2 sit in the shoulder between peak Adriatic summer and full winter. Weather is usually still friendly for beach and old-town itineraries, while hotel rates ease from August highs—prime territory for Nordic packages that do not need a three-times-weekly year-round frequency to make money.
Spotters and schedule scrapers should watch whether a second autumn pair or a winter ski-and-sun hybrid appears in later TUI filings. For now, AeroRoutes’ drop is limited to BLX173 and BLX174 on the Boeing 737 MAX 8. That is enough for a clean route note: Oslo and Split are linked for one tightly dated autumn window on modern MAX metal.
Sources: www.aeroroutes.com. AI-generated hero image for illustration.
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