Nordic Airways
Nordic Airways was an airline based in Stockholm, Sweden. It operated extensive charter and wet lease services. The company's low-cost airline subsidiary Nordic Regional also operated a scheduled network of services linking five domestic and one international destination. Its main base was Stockholm-Arlanda Airport. 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. History. On 2 January 2009, Nordic Airways operated the first commercial flight between Europe and Iraq in 17 years. The flight carried about 150  passengers and operated between Copenhagen and Baghdad. On 24 January 2009 Nordic Airways lost their operation permission, due to a bad financial situation. The successor of Nordic Airways is Air Sweden. Fleet. The Nordic Airways fleet included the following aircraft (as of 8 September 2008): From 2007 there were 5 MD-80s in the fleet. The SAS Q400 fleet was grounded in late 2007. Nordic then flew many domestic Q400 flights for SAS. Shortly after, it also operated Northern EU flights for SAS. The departure rate at gates was even better than ordinary SAS flights. Despite this, 2 MD-80s were returned  to their lessors in 2007 and 2008. By the end of 2009, only SE-DMT and SE-RDM were left in the fleet. A SAAB 340A (SE-LMX) was also flying in the northern part of Sweden, and a Cessna 525 (SE-RIO) was part of the fleet through Panaxia. By late 2009, the airline was no longer flying due to bankruptcy.