PrimeraAir Nordic SIA was a leisure
airline
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headquartered in
Riga
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,
Latvia
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owned by the Primera Travel Group. It provided scheduled and charter passenger services to leisure destinations from
Northern Europe
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.
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retrieved 4 August 2018 It ceased operations on 2 October 2018.
History
The airline was founded in 2014 by the Primera Travel Group to complement the Danish based
Primera Air Scandinavia. The company also opened a Network Control Center in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
for overseeing all operational matters of both Primera Air Scandinavia and Primera Air Nordic. Hrafn Thorgeirsson was appointed as the new CEO of both airlines.
On 30 September 2018, Primera Air Group announced that the company was declaring
bankruptcy
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and that the operations of both
Primera Air
Primera Air Scandinavia A/S, trading as Primera Air, was a Danish airline owned by Primera Travel Group. It provided scheduled and charter passenger services from Northern Europe to more than 40 destinations in the Mediterranean, Middle East ...
and Primera Air Nordic would cease effective 2 October 2018, after failing to secure long term financing.
Destinations
Fleet
At the time of Primera Air Nordic's bankruptcy on 1 October 2018, the fleet consisted of the following aircraft:
References
External links
Official website
{{Airlines of Latvia
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Airlines established in 2014
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2014 establishments in Latvia
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Latvian companies established in 2014