Nordwind Airlines
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| Founded | 2008 | ||||||
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| Operating bases | Sheremetyevo International Airport | ||||||
| Subsidiaries | Pegas Fly | ||||||
| Fleet size | 42 | ||||||
| Destinations | 74 | ||||||
| Parent company | Pegas Touristik[1] | ||||||
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia | ||||||
| Key people | Shvetsov Igor (General Director)[2] | ||||||
| Website | https://nordwindairlines.ru/en | ||||||
Nordwind Airlines, LLC (Russian: ООО «Северный ветер», romanized: Severný veter) is a Russian leisure airline. The company is headquartered in Moscow,[3] and its 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][failed verification]
History
Nordwind Airlines was founded in August 2008 by the Russian and Turkish branches of tour operator Pegas Touristik and initially operated three 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 two used A330s.[9]
The Wall Street Journal reported that Nordwind transported approximately 7.4 tons of gold with a market value over $300 million from Venezuela to a refinery near the airport in Entebbe, Uganda. These March 2019 shipments allegedly expose a global underground economy the United States government suspects helps Nicolás Maduro stay in power in Venezuela.[10]
Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Nordwind suspended all international flights.[11]
Destinations
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Nordwind serves 98 destinations in 28 countries including nine countries and 23 cities in Europe, eight countries and 12 cities in the Middle East and Africa, four countries and four cities in South America, and six countries and 14 cities in Asia.
Fleet
As of May 2022, Nordwind Airlines fleet comprises the following aircraft:[23]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||
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| C | Y | Total | ||||
| Airbus A321-200 | 10 | — | — | 220 | 220 | |
| Airbus A321neo | 2 | — | — | 218 | 218 | |
| Airbus A330-200 | 4 | — | — | 361 | 361 | |
| 1 | 7 | 358 | 365 | |||
| Airbus A330-300 | 4 | — | 34 | 259 | 293 | |
| 1 | — | 408 | 408 | |||
| Boeing 737-800 | 17 | — | 12 | 156 | 168 | |
| — | 189 | 189 | ||||
| Boeing 777-200ER | 3 | — | — | 440 | 440 | |
| Boeing 777-300ER | 4 | — | — | 486 | 486 | |
| 6 | 480 | 486 | ||||
| Irkut MC-21-300 | — | 5[citation needed] | TBA | |||
| Total | 46 | 5 | ||||
The fleet previously included the following aircraft:
References
- ^ "Russia's Nordwind to lease three B737-800s from CBD". ch-aviation. 5 August 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "Nordwind: Senior Management". Archived from the original on 2017-08-15. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ About Nordwind
- ^ "Nordwind - Home". Nordwind.
- ^ "Nordwind Airlines (ATDB)". Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Boeing 757 Active with Nordwind Airlines". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ About Nordwind
- ^ "Missiles Fired At Passenger Jet Over Syria 29 April 2013". Sky News. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
- ^ Montag-Girmes, Polina (July 14, 2017). "Russia's Nordwind Airlines expands fleet with two A330s". Air Transport World.
- ^ Steinhauser, Gabriele; Bariyo, Nicholas (2019-06-19). "How 7.4 Tons of Venezuela's Gold Landed in Africa—and Vanished". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- ^ "Nordwind Airlines suspends all international flights". Retrieved 25 June 2022.
- ^ a b "Updated: All the European countries affected by Ukraine travel bans and sanctions so far". Euronews. 28 February 2022.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c "Ukraine invasion: Russian planes face near-total airspace ban to west". BBC. 27 February 2022.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Nordwind schedules Hannover service from May 2019".
- ^ a b c "Greece closes its airspace for Russian airlines". Reuters. 28 February 2022.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Nordwind schedules new Central Asia service in 2Q19".
- ^ https://www.exyuaviation.com/2021/04/norwind-to-launch-skopje-service.html Norwind to launch Skopje Service/
- ^ a b c d e "Ukraine travel bans and sanctions: All the countries that have been affected so far". Euronews. 27 February 2022.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
- ^ "Nordwind launches sales to Sharjah | Nordwind Airlines".
- ^ "Russian Airlines Eye More Destinations in Latin America". 19 August 2021.
- ^ "El gobierno ruso autoriza más vuelos hacia Venezuela - Aviacionline.com". 20 September 2021.
- ^ "Fleet". nordwindairlines.ru. Nordwind Airlines. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ "Airbus A320 in Nordwind Airlines history". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ "Boeing 767 in Nordwind Airlines history". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
- ^ "Nordwind Airlines fleet details". Airfleets.net. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
External links
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