Primera Air Nordic

PrimeraAir Nordic SIA[2] was a leisure airline headquartered in Riga, Latvia owned by the Primera Travel Group. It provided scheduled and charter passenger services to leisure destinations from Northern Europe.[3] It ceased operations on 2 October 2018.

This article is about the Latvian airline. For its Danish sister airline, see Primera Air.
PrimeraAir Nordic SIA
IATA ICAO Callsign
6F[1] PRW JETBIRD
Founded2014
Ceased operations2 October 2018
Operating bases
Fleet size7
Destinations14
Parent companyPrimera Travel Group
HeadquartersRiga, Latvia
Key peopleHrafn Thorgeirsson (CEO)
Websiteprimeraair.com

History

The airline was founded in 2014 by the Primera Travel Group to complement the Danish based Primera Air Scandinavia.[4] The company also opened a Network Control Center in Riga for overseeing all operational matters of both Primera Air Scandinavia and Primera Air Nordic. Hrafn Thorgeirsson was appointed as the new CEO of both airlines.[5][6][7]

On 30 September 2018, Primera Air Group announced that the company was declaring bankruptcy and that the operations of both Primera Air and Primera Air Nordic would cease effective 2 October 2018, after failing to secure long term financing.[8]

Fleet
Primera Air Nordic Boeing 737-800

At the time of Primera Air Nordic's bankruptcy on 1 October 2018, the fleet consisted of the following aircraft:[9][10]

Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers Notes
C Y Total
Boeing 737-700 2 — — 148 148
Boeing 737-800 5 — — 189 189
Total 7 —

References
  1. "IATA - Airline and Airport Code Search". iata.org. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  2. "Corporate Info". Primera Air. Archived from the original on 2017-06-06. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  3. primeraair.com - route map Archived 2017-02-06 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 4 August 2018
  4. Welcome to Primera Air | [email protected] | primeraair.com Archived 2010-04-01 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Corporate Info - PrimeraAir". PrimeraAir. Archived from the original on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2018-09-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. DELFI (25 August 2014). "'Primera Air' Rīgā veido lidojumu vadības centru, bet tiešos lidojumus no Latvijas pašlaik neplāno". Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  8. "Primera Air Ceases Operations". Primera Air. 30 September 2018. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  9. "Fleet". Primera Air. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
  10. "Primera Air Nordic Fleet Details and History". Planespotters.net. Retrieved 12 September 2018.

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