Nordwind Airlines

Nordwind Airlines
Северный ветер
IATA ICAO Callsign
N4 NWS NORDLAND
Founded 2008
Operating bases Sheremetyevo International Airport
Subsidiaries Pegas Fly
Fleet size 22
Destinations 81
Parent company Pegas Touristik[1]
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
Key people Shvetsov Igor (General Director)[2]
Website nordwindairlines.ru

Nordwind Airlines, LLC (Russian: ООО «Северный ветер», translit. Severný veter) is a Russian scheduled and charter airline. The company is headquartered in Moscow,[3] and its main hub is at Sheremetyevo International Airport. Nordwind Airlines primarily operates service between airports in Russia and holiday destinations around the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean.[4]

History

Nordwind Airlines was founded in August 2008 by the Russian and Turkish branches of tour operator Pegas Touristik and initially operated 3 Boeing 757-200s.[5][6]

The number of passengers transported was as follows:[7]

Year Passengers
2008 20,000
2009 555,000
2010 1.2 million
2011 1.7 million
2012 2.2 million
2013 3.4 million
2014 4.4 million

On April 29, 2013, two surface-to-air missiles were fired by unknown forces in Syria at a Nordwind Airlines jet flying from Sharm El Sheikh to Kazan. The pilots took evasive action and the plane continued onto Kazan undamaged.[8]

In 2017, the airline acquired 2 used A330s.[9]

Destinations

Nordwind serves 97 destinations in 26 countries including 8 countries and 22 cities in Europe, 8 countries and 12 cities in the Middle East and Africa, 3 countries and 3 cities in South America and 6 countries and 14 cities in Asia.

Fleet

Nordwind Airlines Boeing 737-800

The Nordwind Airlines fleet comprises the following aircraft:[10]

Nordwind Airlines fleet
Aircraft In Service Orders Passengers Notes
C Y Total
Airbus A321-200 9 — — 214 214
220 220
Airbus A330-200 2 1 24 259 283
Boeing 737-800 8 — — 186 186
189 189
Boeing 737-900ER — 4[1] TBA
Boeing 777-200ER 6 — 49 228 277
30 255 285
6 387 393
— 440 440
Boeing 777-300ER 2 — — 486 486
Irkut MC-21-300 — 5[11] TBA
Total 27 20

The fleet previously included the following aircraft:

References

  1. 1 2 "Russia's Nordwind to lease three B737-800s from CBD". ch-aviation. 5 August 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Nordwind: Senior Management
  3. ↑ About Nordwind
  4. ↑ "Nordwind - Home". Nordwind.
  5. ↑ "Nordwind Airlines (ATDB)". Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Boeing 757 Active with Nordwind Airlines". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. ↑ About Nordwind
  8. ↑ "Missiles Fired At Passenger Jet Over Syria 29 April 2013". Sky News. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Montag-Girmes, Polina (July 14, 2017). "Russia's Nordwind Airlines expands fleet with two A330s". Air Transport World.
  10. ↑ "Fleet". nordwindairlines.ru. Nordwind Airlines. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "Russia's Irkut MC-21-300 Performs First Flight". ainonline.com. July 31, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Airbus A320 in Nordwind Airlines history". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  13. ↑ "Boeing 767 in Nordwind Airlines history". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  14. ↑ "Nordwind Airlines fleet details". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
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