Northern Airlines PW#1474 ceases operations

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Current world date: November 1981

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Northern Airlines started operations February 23^rd 1964. The airport of choice was obvious to the founder of the company; he had been raised in the city of Uppsala a short trip from the capital, Stockholm. Between the cities, an airport could be found; Stockholm-Arlanda, more commonly known as just Arlanda.

The founder had a Douglas DC-3 at his disposal and hired a small group of people to fly the aircraft to a choice of domestic destinations. It soon, however, occurred to the founder that he could fly to close international cities, such as Copenhagen and Oslo. The next day the aircraft, which now had acquired the name Stockholm, touched international ground for the first time in Copenhagen.

New hubs and name change

As the years flew by, Northern Airlines grew very fast and soon placed itself as one of the top 20 airlines in the world. By this time, the company had opened a hub in Copenhagen. One year passed, and our second foreign hub opened in December 1967 in Oslo. During four years we also served major cities in Europe from Stockholm-Bromma.

In September 1970 Northern Airlines went through some changes. The name was dropped and the company from this day on should be called Blue Airways and a hub was opened at the Washington-Dulles Airport.

This change lasted for exactly 10 years. Blue Airways suffered from huge administration problems and soon enough, after dropping not only the name, but also 60% of the value, the company would now change back to its former name and start over again, from scratch.

A new beginning

We quickly re-established our base at Arlanda and eventually got a running base at Washington again. However, we have no intention of starting to fly from neither Oslo nor Copenhagen.

Value status

We’re currently ranked as the 24^th (of 65) most valuable airline in the world with a value of roughly €4bil. We carry 36 000 passengers each day which means we’re the 30^th largest airline in terms of passengers.

We have a fleet of 40 aircraft (including orders; 34 excluding).

Our fleet: Brackets indicate orders.

• BAC 111-400 x2 (3 on order)
• Boeing 737-200 Adv. HGW x17
• Douglas DC-9-50 x5
• Lockheed L1011-500 x10
• (Douglas DC-10-40) x3

Base status

We have the largest market share at both of our bases, 26.5% at Stockholm Arlanda and 19.1% at Washington-Dulles.

We currently serve 83 destinations from Arlanda and 54 from Washington with a total of 137 routes to 125 destinations spanning over five continents.

    Arlanda                                                                                  Washington

                                         

 

Alliance Status

We joined the alliance Sky Blue in 1968. Sky Blue is the oldest alliance formed in 1948 by the most valuable airline in the world, Pacific Aero previously known as Orbital Airlines.

Sky Blue is currently the largest alliance by a small margin; the second largest being Skyworld International

Quick Facts

Name: Northern Airlines
Airline ICAO Code: NXA
Callsign: "Northern"
Founded: February 23^rd 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alliance: Sky Blue
Company Headquarters: Stockholm
Hubs: Stockholm, Washington.

Airline Mogul - See my airline

[isthisgoodenough]

Current world date: November 1982

Northern Regional founded

March 1982 Northern Airlines' first subsidiary was founded and flies under the name Northern Regional. Currently, Northern Regional serves 57 minor airports around the Baltic Sea region. Many local politicians have shown interest in an expansion of Northern Regional in order to expand the business around the counties. Northern Regional CEO has stated that they will expand enough to suit the demand around the region. At the moment, Northern Regional operates 6 aircraft; 5 Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000 and 1 Dash 7-100 with an additional Dash on order.

Northern Airlines passes milestones

Earlier this year, Northern Airlines, along with its subsidiaries started its 200^th operation. And with such a high rate of expand, we're now approaching 300 routes in total next month. Northern Airlines' CEO expressed both relief and happiness when the 200^th route commenced, stating that he's happy that the airline has come this far but also relived that the airline hasn't stumbled across any hard competition at either Arlanda nor Washington Dulles which has made the trip from the "new beginning" to here a lot easier. He also said that the aircraft used have really shown result and delivered as you would expect.

So far, Northern Airlines has favored non-Soviet airliners and the airline is now in talks with Boeing about their upcoming twinjet; the Boeing 757, planned to start selling at the beginning of 1983.

Another milestone achieved is the re-entry on the top 20 list of the most valuable airlines. In one year, the airline has increased its value by roughly €1.4 bil. The airline is now worth €5.4 bil and is at the moment the 18^th most valuable airline.

Value status

As stated above, we're the 18^th most valuable airline with a value of roughly €5.4 bil. We carry 65 200 passengers daily which means we're the 20^th largest airline in terms of passengers.

We have a fleet of 74 aircraft (including orders; 70 excluding).

Our fleet: Brackets indicate orders.

• 19x BAC 111-400
• 27x Boeing 737-200 Adv. HGW (3 on order)
• 1x Dash 7-100 (1 on order)
• 3x Douglas DC-10-40
• 5x Douglas DC-9-50
• 5x Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000
• 10x Lockheed L-1011-500

Base status

We still have the largest market share at both of our bases, 33.1% at Arlanda and 27.7% at Washington Dulles.

We currently serve 191 destinations from Arlanda and 101 from Washington with a total of 292 routes to 275 destinations spanning over five continents.

                                                           Arlanda                                                                                   Washington

     

Quick facts

Name: Northern Airlines
Airline ICAO Code: NXA
Callsign: "Northern"
Founded: February 23rd 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alliance: Sky Blue
Company Headquarters: Stockholm
Hubs: Stockholm, Washington.

Northern Airlines

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Northern places order for 757

Early January 1983, just after Boeing announced they will accept orders for their new twinjet, the Boeing 757-200, Northern Airlines placed an order for four aircraft with option for 5 more. Though, Northern Airlines isn't the only airline that's placed orders, two other airlines have shown interest for the aircraft.

After the signing, Northern went ahead and unveiled two new paint schemes. Both have been designed to work on either aircraft in Northern Airlines' fleet. Here are the new schemes:

Northern Airlines

[1993matias]

Looks nice! I like the liveries much

[isthisgoodenough]

Looks nice! I like the liveries much

Thanks! I'll have to admit that you've inspired me a lot and the fact that you don't make liveries anymore just got me wanting to create them myself.  

[1993matias]

Heh, I just got enough of making liveries, and I felt that my creativity was slowly disappering; but it makes me happy to know I was your inspiration

Just try to make the shadow a little lower on the 737, otherwise it's perfectly good

[isthisgoodenough]

Current world date: Mars 1984

Northern Airlines 20 years

Last February, Northern Airlines celebrated 20 years in service. In 1964, the aircraft called Stockholm took off from Arlanda, making Northern Airlines the first airline based at Stockholm-Arlanda. In order to mark this date, Northern Airlines ordered 15 Boeing 767-200ER which will replace our aging L-1011-500 on long haul flights from Arlanda. We've also started long haul from Washington and a few 767s will take part in the long haul fleet from Washington.

We've got a few new liveries due to the anniversary that will be presented below. You can also read some airline history in the first post.

100^th Aircraft and new liveries

One of the 767s ordered will become our 100^th aircraft. Northern Airlines is now one of 14 airlines with a total fleet of more than 100 aircraft. Because of these milestones we've decided to unveil some new liveries.

The 100^th livery will only be painted on one aircraft. The same rule is applied to the 20 year livery. Other 767s will be painted in other, existing liveries. 757s Ordered from this point and on will be painted in the shown livery.

Value status

We’re currently ranked as the 18^th (of 63) most valuable airline in the world with a value of roughly €9bil. We carry roughly 89 000  passengers each day which means we’re the 17^th largest airline in terms of passengers.

We have a fleet of 114 aircraft (including orders; 99 excluding).

Our fleet: Brackets indicate orders.

• 19x BAC 111-400
• 5x BAe-146-100
• 30x Boeing 737-200 Adv. HGW
• 20x Boeing 757-200
• 3x Dash 7-100
• 3x Douglas DC-10-40
• 5x Douglas DC-9-50
• 5x Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000
• 9x Lockheed L-1011-500 (To be phased out)
• 15x (Boeing 767-200ER)

Base status

Base status

We still have the largest market share at both of our bases, 34.2% at Arlanda and 40.7% at Washington Dulles.

We currently serve 220 destinations from Arlanda and 182 from Washington with a total of 410 routes to 362 destinations spanning over five continents.


                                                           Arlanda                                                                                   Washington

   

Quick facts

Name: Northern Airlines
Airline ICAO Code: NTA
Callsign: "Northern"
Founded: February 23rd 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alliance: Sky Blue
Company Headquarters: Stockholm
Hubs: Stockholm, Washington.

Northern Airlines

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Current world date: April 1986

Northern Airlines reaches 100 000 daily passengers

A few months ago Northern Airlines reached another milestone; 100 000 daily passengers. This means that the Sweden-based airline carries a bit more than 36 million passengers a year. This has been made possible through hard work from everyone involved in the airline and of course, our fleet of 119 aircraft.

In other news, the airline started a fleet renewal program after reaching the milestone above, and Northern has now spent over €3.2 bil in new aircraft, most of them being B737-200 Adv. HGW. This means that we have an all new international (not intercontinental though) fleet consisting of mainly B737s at both of our hubs. This does not apply to our subsidiary airline Northern Regional, though the aircraft used by them is being replaced the following month.

Value status

We’re currently ranked as the 17th (of 62) most valuable airline in the world with a value of roughly €10.5bil. We carry roughly 104 000  passengers each day which means we’re the 15th largest airline in terms of passengers.

We have a fleet of 129 aircraft (including subsidiaries and orders; 119 excluding orders).

Our fleet: Brackets indicate orders.

• 4x BAe-146-100
• 55x Boeing 737-200 Adv. HGW
• 20x Boeing 757-200
• 32x Boeing 767-200ER
• 3x Dash 7-100
• 5x Fokker F28 Fellowship 1000 (+10)

Base status

We still have the largest market share at both of our bases, 37.07% at Arlanda and 34.18% at Washington Dulles.

We currently serve 234 destinations from Arlanda and 200 from Washington with a total of 442 routes to 369 destinations spanning over five continents.


                                                Arlanda                                                                                   Washington

   

Quick Facts

Name: Northern Airlines
Airline ICAO Code: NTA
Callsign: "Northern"
Founded: February 23rd 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alliance: Sky Blue
Company Headquarters: Stockholm
Hubs: Stockholm, Washington.

Northern Airlines

[isthisgoodenough]

Current world date: January 1987

Northern Airlines in Seoul

Late December 1986 Northern received 10 brand new Boeing 767-200ER to replace the aging 757s in Northern's fleet spread over the world. And as it happens, Northern put one new 767 at Arlanda, five at Dulles and shipped the rest to Seoul, South Korea.

Plane spotters could the other day count to more than five 767s at Incheon; Northern had then cut long haul operations at Washington and Stockholm and shipped the airliners to Seoul. Yesterday operations began, 31 long haul destinations and 6 destinations within Asia is now being served by Northern from Incheon International Airport in Seoul. A consequence being that Northern has expanded its route network to also serve Australia.

Northern Airlines also confirmes that they're awaiting delivery of ten 737-200 Adv. HGW to serve short- to mid haul destinations from Seoul.

Now having opened opportunities for a gateway in Asia, Northern haven't expanded passenger-wise, however, they've reallocated its resources to form a better chance of doing that in the near future.

Northern Airlines

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Current world date: January 1988

Recent happenings within Northern

During the last two years Northern has gone through a fleet-renewal program and last year the airline focused on long haul aircraft replacements. This resulted in 53 new Boeing 767-200ERs worth more than €7bil. combined. The 767s will fly across the globe through our three hubs at Stockholm, Washington and Seoul.

Northern Airlines places order for Airbus airliner

Throughout our history Northern has always been interested in Boeing's development and their aircraft; starting with the 707 and 727, Northern has flown at least 1 member from each series developed so far by Boeing. Now though, Northern has chosen to let Airbus into their fleet.

Last summer Mediterranean Airlines placed an order for 10 new airliners, namely the Airbus A320-200, an advanced member of the A320-family making Mediterranean the launch customer for the new airliner.

Northern has now placed a firm order for 10 A320-200 with option for 15 more. This makes Northern the fifth airline showing interest for the new airliner. The A320s will operate out of Washington and Stockholm.

Northern Airlines

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Current word date: December 1989

Northern Regional rebrands

Northern Airlines today announced that the airline has made an overhaul of the entire airline and its subsidiaries. As a result of the overhaul Northern Airlines has announced the rebranding of its regional subsidiary airline Northern Regional, which now will be branded as Northern Commuter.

Northern Commuter has recently reached leasing agreements with North Eastern Airways and Britain Express leading to Northern Commuter leasing a total of seven aircraft; two Beech 1900C, one Embraer EMB-120RT from North Eastern Airways and four Shorts 330-200 from Britain Express. The leased aircraft will assist the other ten Fokker F28 Fellowship operated by Northern Commuter throughout Northern’s hubs.

Northern Airlines’ financial position

Northern Airlines has, during the last decade, grown financially by roughly €17 bil and due to a recent boost in the economy we’ve climbed the value-ladder 12th to 7th place within 2 years.

Our average aircraft fleet age is 2.6 years and we’re in the process of adding on another ten Airbus A320-200 to our fleet of 137 planes (excl. orders). We’re also in negotiation with Boeing about additions to our current long haul fleet of 53 B767-200ER. We’re temporarily serving Australia with two Lockheed L1011-1 leased from Scandinavian, the two airliners are based in Sydney serving three destinations each. The leasing contract is due to expire November next year.

Quick Facts
Name: Northern Airlines
Airline ICAO Code: NTA
Callsign: "Northern"
Founded: February 23rd 1964, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Alliance: Sky Blue
Company Headquarters: Stockholm
Hubs: Stockholm, Washington, Seoul.

Sincerely

Northern Airlines

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Northern Airlines

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Northern Airlines

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Sincerely
Northern Airlines

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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