Northern

IATA: NR - ICAO: NRA - Callsign: Northern

Northern Airlines is a American regional virtual airline founded in 2017. The VA serves 75 airports across the United States, Canada, Mexico, The Bahamas with a growing fleet of up to 100 aircraft. In August 2022 the va revealed it's first full rebrand in five years.

In 2018, the airline acquired TexAir virtual subsidiary TexExpress and it's fleet of Bombardier Q400s & Embraer E175s.

## History

**Early Years**

Northern commenced operations on 2nd January 2017 as Northern Regional Airlines conducting a few daily flights between Chicago & Newark using DeHavilland Dash 8-200 aircraft.

By May 2017, Northern signed an agreement to operate domestic flights on behalf of TexAir.

In August 2017, Northern announced it's intentions to purchase 9 Embraer E195 aircraft from IslandAir. In the following six months the aircraft were delivered and all entered service by January 2018.

In August 2018, Northern announced the retirement of it's older DeHavilland Dash 8-200 aircraft. The final Dash 8-200 left the fleet in November 2018.

**Recent history**

Following the collapse of TexAir in late 2018, Northern acquired it's domestic operations, increasing the number of Q400s from 10 to 12. The acquisition led to an order with Embraer for 10 E175 aircraft.

By December 2018, Northern announced an increased presence in Canada, with increased services to Toronto, Montreal & new service to the Mont Tremblant.

In August 2019 Northern received it's final three E175 jets from Embraer marking the end of all 15 orders from the company.

In 2020, Northern announced it would replace all it's current E-Jet fleet with the newer E2 jets by 2023. The first order was confirmed to arrive with the virtual airline in August 2022, with services commencing on Thursday 6th October 2022.

## Alliances

**Codeshares**

From March 2017 until July 2018, Northern had a codeshare agreement with TexAir

## Frequent Flyer Programme

Flightclub was launched by Northern in December 2020 replacing the previous Northern Miles reward scheme.

## Operations

**Hubs**

As of August 2022 Northern has hubs located at Birmingham, Chicago Midway, Fort Lauderdale, Newark Liberty & Washington National.

**Focus Cities**

As of August 2022 Northern has focus cities at Atlanta, Manchester Boston & Toronto City Billy Bishop.

## Fleet

As of August 2022 the fleet consist of the following aircraft:

#### Fleet Strategy

Northern's core fleet is based around the Q400 with Embraer E-Jets operating longer distance or higher capacity routes.

##### Dash 8 Q400

Northern has a fleet of 43 Q400s with up to 39 of them operational each day. The average age of the Q400 fleet is 4.4 years old (August 2022)

##### Embraer E-Jet Classic

Northern operate the Embraer E175 and E195 classic E-Jets. In August 2022, it was announced the nine E195 jets would be retired by 2024 and the 15 E175 jets would undergo a complete refresh to cover for delays in the E175-E2 fleet.

##### Embraer E-Jet E2

Northern will become the first virtual airline to operate the Embraer E2 anywhere in the world. Originally due to begin in August 2022, the date was pushed back to September 2022 before it was announced that October 6th would be the launch date for Northern's E195-E2 services.