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Nordic Airways

Nordic Airways
Logo-leisure 500.jpg
IATA ICAO Callsign
6N NRD NORTH RIDER
Founded 2004
Ceased operations 2009
Hubs
Fleet size 2
Headquarters , Sweden
Key people Gunnar Olsson, Managing Director
Website www.nordicairways.se

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

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.

The airline originated from a privately owned airline Reguljair, which started services between Luleå and 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.

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


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