Nordwind Airlines

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Nordwind Airlines
Nordwind Airlines logo
Boeing 737-800 of Nordwind Airlines
IATA code : N4
ICAO code : NWS
Call sign : NORTH COUNTRY
Founding: 2008
Seat: Moscow , RussiaRussiaRussia 
Home airport : Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport
IATA prefix code : 216
Passenger volume: 3.55 million  (2017)
Freight volume: 1731 t  (2017)
Fleet size: 30 (+ 7 orders)
Aims: National and international
Website: www.nordwindairlines.ru

Nordwind Airlines (officially also in Russian Северный ветер ) is a Russian charter airline based in Moscow and based at Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport .

history

The airline was founded in May 2008 and began flight operations in December of the same year, initially with three Boeing 757-200 aircraft . The airline grew rapidly in the following time and more aircraft were flown in. The first Boeing 767-300ER joined the fleet in May 2009. A Boeing 777-200ER followed in early April 2013.

Destinations

Nordwind Airlines concentrates on the charter flight business as well as on the wet lease and flies in charter flight operations, mostly for tour operators to destinations within Russia and, for example, in Greece , China , Egypt , Vietnam and Turkey , and from 2017 to Thailand .

fleet

Airbus A321-200 of Nordwind Airlines

As of April 2019, the Nordwind Airlines fleet consists of 30 aircraft with an average age of 11.2 years:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
Airbus A321-200 9 214 (- / - / 214)

220 (- / - / 220)

Airbus A330-200 2 1 k. A.
Boeing 737-800 10 186 (- / - / 186)

189 (- / - / 189)

Boeing 737-900ER 3 - open -
Boeing 777-200ER 6th 277 (- / 49/228)

285 (- / 30/255)

393 (- / 6/387)

Boeing 777-300ER 3 486 (- / - / 486)
Irkut MS-21 3 + 2 options - open -
total 30th 7th

Former aircraft types

Incidents

  • On flight N4-1801 on January 10, 2020, the nose landing gear was pushed into the interior of the cabin during a hard landing with a three-year-old A321 ( aviation registration number : VQ-BRS ) at Antalya Airport (AYT) . Since it was a positioning flight, there were no passengers on board. According to the captain's description, the aircraft was caught in shear winds on its approach and as a result hit the bow hard on the runway . The pilots took off. During the subsequent climb, both main hydraulic systems also failed. The two pilots opted for a sight landing on runway 36C.
In an interim report, the Interstate Aviation Committee found that the voice recorder in the VQ-BRS aircraft that had crashed had been replaced after the accident, but before the commission of inquiry arrived. The voice recorder installed in VQ-BRS after the accident contained the recording of a flight N4-1802 (not N4-1801) by VP-BHN (not VQ-BRS), which came from the day after the accident. The voice recorder was flown in on an Aeroflot flight to be exchanged in hand luggage .

See also

Web links

Commons : Nordwind Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Passenger Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 236 kB) Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Russian).
  2. ↑ Russian Aviation Agency : Freight Statistics of Russian Airlines 2016/2017. (PDF, 238 kB) Retrieved January 30, 2018 (Russian).
  3. ↑ nordwindairlines.ru - Destinations ( memento of the original from December 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on July 22, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nordwindairlines.ru
  4. ↑ Nordwind Airlines blows into St. Petersburg , November 7, 2017
  5. ^ Nordwind Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Flugrevue.de - civil aircraft orders 2010 part 1 January to June (part 2) civil aircraft orders 2010 July to December , accessed on June 29, 2015
  7. ↑ nordwindairlines.ru - Seating Plan ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on July 22, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nordwindairlines.ru
  8. ↑ Incident in Antalya: A321 landing gear penetrates cabin after hard landing. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. January 14, 2020, accessed on January 17, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  9. ↑ Patrick Zwerger: Incident in Antalya: Airbus landing gear breaks through cabin floor. January 13, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Airbus landing gear breaks through cabin floor. January 13, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Accident: Nordwind A321 at Antalya on Jan 10th 2020, hard landing. May 26, 2020, accessed on May 27, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Промежуточный отчет самолет A321-231 VQ-BRS. Retrieved May 27, 2020 (Russian).