Nordic Airways

Nordic Airways was an airline based in Stockholm, Sweden. It operated extensive charter and wet lease services. The company's low-cost airline subsidiary Nordic Regional also operated a scheduled network of services linking five domestic and one international destination. Its main base was Stockholm-Arlanda Airport.[1]

Nordic Airways
IATA ICAO Callsign
6N NRD NORTH RIDER
Founded2004
Ceased operations2009
HubsStockholm-Arlanda Airport
Fleet size2
HeadquartersStockholm, Sweden
Key peopleGunnar Olsson, Managing Director
Websitewww.nordicairways.se

Nordic Airways served charter flights for Airtours, Apollo and Neckerman as well as ACMI charters for SAS, Germanwings, Spanair, Sterling, LTE International Airways, Air Comet and Centralwings.

History

The airline originated from the privately owned airline Reguljair, which started services between Luleå and Stockholm in 2001, by which time it had become Nordic Airlink. Finnair acquired 85% of the company in 2003 and the company was split into two. The Finnair low cost subsidiary FlyNordic and the privately held Nordic Leisure. For domestic Nordic Leisure flights the brand Nordic Regional is used. The Nordic Airways name was adopted for Nordic Leisure/Nordic Regional in January 2006.[1]

On 2 January 2009, Nordic Airways operated the first commercial flight between Europe and Iraq in 17 years. The flight carried about 150 passengers and operated between Copenhagen and Baghdad.[2]

On 24 January 2009 Nordic Airways lost their operation permission, due to a bad financial situation.[3]

The successor of Nordic Airways is Air Sweden.

Fleet

The Nordic Airways fleet included the following aircraft (as of 8 September 2008):[4]

From 2007 there were 5 MD-80s in the fleet. The SAS Q400 fleet was grounded in late 2007. Nordic then flew many domestic Q400 flights for SAS. Shortly after, it also operated Northern EU flights for SAS. The departure rate at gates was even better than ordinary SAS flights. Despite this, 2 MD-80s were returned to their lessors in 2007 and 2008.

By the end of 2009, only SE-DMT and SE-RDM were left in the fleet. A SAAB 340A (SE-LMX) was also flying in the northern part of Sweden, and a Cessna 525 (SE-RIO) was part of the fleet through Panaxia.

By late 2009, the airline was no longer flying due to bankruptcy.


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References
  1. "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-10. p. 56.
  2. "European flight lands in Baghdad". BBC News. BBC. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  3. http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/nyheter/artikel_2371345.svd
  4. CH-Aviation - Nordic Airways
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