Nordic European Airlines
| Nordic European Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | DJ (previously N7) |
| ICAO code : | NOD (previously ELN) |
| Call sign : | NORDIC STAR (previously EASTLINE) |
| Founding: | 1991 |
| Operation stopped: | 1998 |
| Seat: |
Stockholm , Sweden
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| Home airport : | Stockholm / Arlanda Airport |
| Number of employees: | 100 |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | Mediterranean area , Portugal , Canary Islands |
| Nordic European Airlines ceased operations in 1998. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Nordic European Airlines ( trading as Nordic East Airways until 1996 ) was a Swedish airline based at Stockholm / Arlanda Airport that ceased operations in 1998.
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The company was founded in early 1991 by private investors in Stockholm under the name Nordic East Airways (NEA). Operations started on August 9, 1991 from Stockholm / Arlanda Airport with a leased Douglas DC-9-21 from SAS Scandinavian Airlines , which was used on behalf of Swedish tour operators on IT charter flights to southern Europe and also for occasional orders ( ad hoc Charter ) was used. The company leased an additional McDonnell Douglas MD-82 from SAS from January 1992 . At the end of 1992, Nordic East Airways participated in the founding of the Greek charter airline Venus Airlines .
After the amended EU air traffic law came into force, Nordic East Airways also started charter traffic from departure airports outside Sweden at the end of 1993. On behalf of the Leipzig tour operator Hellas Reisen , the company carried out IT charter flights from Berlin-Schönefeld Airport to Greece with a Boeing 737-400 from April 1995 . At the same time, the first leased were wide-body aircraft type Lockheed L-1011 put into service, the majority from Stockholm to Palma de Mallorca and the Canary Islands and in addition also in the sub-charter for LTU from Dusseldorf airport were used.
In November 1995, Nordic East Airways set up its first domestic Swedish route between Stockholm and Östersund . With a view to a Europe-wide scheduled service, the company was renamed Nordic European Airlines in July 1996 . The first international scheduled flights began on September 29, 1996 between Stockholm and Brussels . In addition, the company continued to operate charter flights and wet-lease its machines for other airlines, including Air Djibouti in spring 1998 . The company was sold to a Greek-Swedish consortium in early 1997 , but remained based in Stockholm. Flight operations were discontinued in March 1998 for economic reasons.
fleet
Fleet at the end of operations
In the year of cessation of operations, the company's fleet consisted of a Boeing 737-200, a Boeing 737-400 and two Lockheed L-1011s.
Previously deployed aircraft
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- ↑ After the name was changed to Nordic European Airlines , the company changed its IATA and ICAO codes and callsign in July 1996.
- ↑ a b c d e Leisure Airlines of Europe, K. Vomhof, 2001
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 92/93
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 98/99
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years
