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Airline Reports / Re: Northern Airlines PW#1474 ceases operations

« on: June 14, 2012, 12:10:27 pm »

Historical fleet:

Bolded font indicates Northern Airlines as launch customer of that type.

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde
Airbus A320-200
Airbus A330-200
Airbus A340-500
BAC 111-400
BAe 146-100
Beech 1900C
Boeing 707-120
Boeing 707-320B Adv.
Boeing 720
Boeing 720B
Boeing 727-100
Boeing 727-200
Boeing 727-200 Adv.
Boeing 737-100
Boeing 737-200
Boeing 737-200 Adv.
Boeing 737-200 Adv. HGW
Boeing 747-200
Boeing 747SP
Boeing 757-200
Boeing 767-200ER
Boeing 777-200ER
Comet 4B
Dash 7-100
Douglas DC-10-40
Douglas DC-3
Douglas DC-7
Douglas DC-9-10
Douglas DC-9-15
Douglas DC-9-50
Embraer EMB-120RT
Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000
Lockheed L1011-1
Lockheed L1011-500
Short 330-200
Vickers Super VC-10

Sincerely

Northern Airlines

Airline Reports / Northern Airlines PW#1474 ceases operations

« on: June 14, 2012, 12:05:37 pm »

As the world is coming to an end, it is with regret I'm informing you that this will be the last post about Northern Airlines PW#1474.

The following pictures are the route maps of Northern Airlines as of April 2008 (in-game time of course).

World map:

Europe, Africa, Middle East:

North America, South America:

Asia, Oceania:

Airline Reports / Re: Northern Airlines PW#1474

« on: May 09, 2012, 08:16:32 am »

Current world date: April 2005

Northern Airlines continued its intercontinental expansion halfway through 2003 when the airline took delivery of the brand new Airbus A340-500 as the launch customer. With the exceptional range-capacity of the A340-500 Northern opened the longest non-stop route yet: Stockholm-Sydney along with Stockholm-Melbourne. Up to this date Northern had served Stockholm-Sydney with a stop in Bangkok (the same to Stockholm-Melbourne) and the airline decided to keep these routes as an addition to the non-stop routes from Stockholm.

Sincerely
Northern Airlines

General Chat / Re: Show your colors - The Liveries Topic

« on: April 26, 2012, 08:59:52 am »

Wow! Great, Jeremy

Airline Reports / Re: Northern Airlines PW#1474

« on: April 18, 2012, 03:11:02 pm »

Current world date: July 2003

The airline was under a lot of critique for a few years after the cutbacks, although the name became synonymous with first class quality amongst the passengers, which was needed at Arlanda since Northern had lost a lot of market share after the rapid expansion by mainly Global Air Express but also minor, regional airlines.

By 1998 Northern was looking for long haul replacements for its 767s and approached both Airbus and Boeing. The A330 proved to be very attractive to the airline and so the negotiations began. In the end Northern ended up with the A330-200 equipped with Rolls Royce engines. The order for 24 of these airliners became the biggest in Northern Airlines’ history worth a staggering €3.2 bil, the equal amount to replace all of Northern Airlines’ short/medium haul fleet twice.

By the early 2000's, Global Air Express had cancelled almost all of their long haul services from Arlanda. This meant that Northern almost had monopoly on long haul operations out of Stockholm, which was being used furiously. By the time all of the A330s were delivered, 45 of the 118 destinations served from Arlanda were intercontinental.

To be continued

Sincerely
Northern Airlines

Airline Reports / Re: Northern Airlines PW#1474

« on: March 31, 2012, 05:23:00 pm »

Current world date: January 2002

This is the first post in a series of post regarding Northern Airlines in PW #1474. The airline has simply been maintained since the last post. As nothing major has happened and the world is soon coming to an end I’ll just sum up the history.

During the 80’s, Northern Airlines built a strong network at Seoul and established a fully functional hub at Incheon. The airline grew bigger and bigger on the long haul market using medium haul flights as feeder both passenger and economy-wise. During its peak Northern was operating almost 600 routes throughout 450 destinations using a mixed fleet of Airbuses (A320-200) and Boeings (737-200 Adv. HGW, 767-200ER) with its subsidiary Northern Connection operating Fokker F28 Fellowship as well as nearly 15 aircraft leased in to the airline group.

Not only the airline had its peak now; Stockholm-Arlanda also had its glory days during this time. It was the 11th busiest airport in the world, even busier than great cities airport(s) such as JFK and Chicago O’Hare with a total of 748 flights a day.

In 1988 the airline made the devastating decision to close all its routes from Seoul and later Washington after more than 20 years of faithful flights from Dulles. The last aircraft to leave Dulles was a B767-200ER heading toward Zürich, to be flown to Stockholm later. Northern Connection also ceased operations August 1994 and selling off the Fokker F28s.

From there, the airline resumed to strafe toward its vision, which had been long forgotten during the expansion into Asia and Seoul. The vision was to fly the youngest and safest fleet possible but also to deliver the best service possible and first class treatment all the way from booking to baggage retrieval at the last destination – at all times. This had been torn away during the late 80’s/early 90’s but was now to be re-applied to the 105 routes flown from Stockholm.

To be continued

Sincerely
Northern Airlines

Airline Branding Center / Re: Cityjet.com Livery

« on: March 30, 2012, 05:16:45 pm »

Awesome tail OG!

Airline Reports / Re: Northern Airlines PW#1474

« on: January 08, 2012, 08:28:37 pm »

I fly Stockholm-Bangkok and then through the alliance system Bangkok-Sydney and Bangkok-Melbourne.

Airline Reports / Re: Northern Airlines PW#1474

« on: January 05, 2012, 01:11:29 pm »

Current world date: November 1994

In December 1988 the board of directors of Northern Airlines made a controversial decision. They found that during several cases, customers were complaining about the appearance of the airline and that being a customer of Northern wasn’t as prestigious as it used to be. That made the board take a look to find what upset the complaining customers and they found nothing else that the airline had grown. They went deeper, and did random quality-tests on the airline’s many routes. They all agreed that it wasn’t like before, it was a bit worse than it once used to be.

By that point the board faced two possible solutions for the future; either expand more and become the average airline or cutback on routes and concentrate the quality. They chose the second…

So the cutbacks began. The board agreed that Stockholm-Arlanda would be the sole base of Northern Airlines as the airline is Swedish and Arlanda was the place it all began. Seoul and Washington would consequently no longer serve as hubs for Northern. Gradually the route network would dilute until only 102 destinations remained, served from Arlanda. Two routes would serve as extensions from Suvarnabhumi International Airport to Australia.

The fleet was renewed and the airline saw the 757-200 come in handy once again. New liveries were applied aswell as new economy, business and first class products.

This story will serve as a cover-up for me not having the time needed to maintain the airline as it used to be.

New Liveries

Here are the new liveries presented for the Boeing 767-200ER aswell as the 757-200. Huge thanks to mark4051997 over at Mark's Branding Center.

Sincerely
Northern Airlines

Airline Branding Center / Re: Mark's Branding Center

« on: December 31, 2011, 12:56:44 pm »

Thanks alot, they're great!

Airline Branding Center / Re: Mark's Branding Center

« on: December 29, 2011, 03:28:21 pm »

For liveries:
Your Airline Name/Slogan (If You Have One) - Northern Airlines
Your Airline Logo - This is the actual logo: http://airlinemogul.com/airlinelogos/38704_1474.jpg but here's another one if you want to play around: http://i1084.photobucket.com/albums/j420/tvaett/NAXSTOR.png
Country Your Airline Is Registered In - Sweden.
Colors - Orange and white.
Extra Information - I have made a few liveries of my own, you can find them here: http://stephenm.org/smfforum/index.php?topic=12644.0
Aircraft - Boeing 757-200 (preferably with RR engines.) I interpreted that you do Boeing 767-200ER so I would like that aswell.

Thanks in advance.

Airline Reports / Re: Northern Airlines PW#1474

« on: December 12, 2011, 06:52:23 pm »

Current world date: November 1992

Last month (October 1993) was one of the first to be recognized as the breast cancer awareness month. Northern Airlines strongly supports this act and in order to increase the awareness of breast cancer the airline unveiled a new Airbus A320 livery with pink elements, complete with a pink ribbon which has symbolized breast cancer awareness since 1992.

Sincerely

Northern Airlines

Sincerely
Northern Airlines

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