05.08.2022 - 14:50 UTC
Northern Pacific Airways (Anchorage Ted Stevens) plans to start scheduled service between the United States and Mexico with its B757-200s later this year, according to a regulatory filing with the US Department of Transportation( DOT).
Chief Executive Officer Rob McKinney explained to ch-aviation that nothing had changed on the original business plan to make Anchorage Ted Stevens a hub connecting North America with Asia (Japan and South Korea), initially using ACMI capacity, and subsequently with its own B757-200s and crews.
However, the startup was "running into some regulatory hurdles in Asia that is slowing the timeline", he explained. "We believe that it is important to keep the momentum we have to launch operations. Mexico from Ontario should be a faster process to get operational. Nothing has changed on the original business plan other than timing," he said.
Pressed on the nature of the regulatory hurdles regarding the Asia plans, he explained: "We cannot start on ETOPS certification until we are flying planes in commercial service....
Editorial Comment: Clarifying that Northern Pacific Airways already has an AOC. - 05.08.2022 - 21:17 UTC
23.05.2022 - 00:59 UTC
Northern Pacific Airways (Anchorage Ted Stevens) is planning to launch transpacific operations using wet-leased aircraft initially, the carrier said in its application to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for an exemption and a certificate of public convenience and necessity.
"Northern Pacific intends to start scheduled service between Anchorage Ted Stevens, Alaska, on the one hand, and Korea and Japan, on the other hand, both of which are Open Skies partners of the United States, initially via a wet-lease with a certificated US air carrier and subsequently with its own crews and B757 aircraft. Northern Pacific seeks the flexibility and breadth of blanket US - OpenSkies certificate authority to encompass additional Open-Skies countries and to avoid the additional administrative burdens," the airline said.
Northern Pacific Airways - the parent of Ravn Alaska (7H, Anchorage Ted Stevens) - is planning to build Anchorage into a hub, connecting Asia and North America akin to Icelandair (FI, Reykjavik Keflavik) and its Reykjavik transatlantic hub. The ch-aviation fleets advanced module shows...
10.02.2022 - 16:10 UTC
Northern Pacific Airways (Anchorage Ted Stevens) will focus a business model of using B757 equipment to ferry passengers between North America and Asia with an optional stay in the state of Alaska, an idea the startup has admitted is “wholesale ripping off Icelandair.”
It has secured two B757-200s that were previously in American Airlines’ fleet, its chief executive Rob McKinney told Airline Weekly, and is in talks to acquire six ex-United Airlines B757s and three formerly operated by Icelandair. Bloomberg News claimed that the airline was “using an Icelandair subsidiary, Loftleidir Icelandic, to operate three 757s for its initial Asia service.”
A fleet of 11 aircraft is necessary to account for the ageing jets’ maintenance needs and provide enough spares, McKinney said, to enable the startup to offer daily frequencies on its planned network linking the rest of the United States with North Asia - initially Japan and South Korea - via Anchorage Ted Stevens starting from the third or the fourth quarter of 2022, depending on...
05.11.2021 - 09:26 UTC
Ravn Alaska (7H, Anchorage Ted Stevens) has changed its corporate name from Corvus Airlines, Inc. to Northern Pacific Airways, Inc.
This has emerged from a November 2 regulatory filing with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) in which Corvus has requested an expedited revision and re-issuance of its Public Convenience and Necessity (PCN) certificate to reflect the name change.
The company said this would not affect the management, control, operations, financial condition, citizenship, or airline ownership, nor would it trigger any additional requirements or further analysis of the DOT’s economic regulations. Chief Executive Officer Rob McKinney will continue to manage the operations of the renamed company.
As previously reported, McKinney intends to use the Northern Pacific Airways (Anchorage Ted Stevens) brand – to be operated on the Air Operator Certificate (AOC) of parent Corvus Airlines – to provide an air link between the mainland USA and Asia via the currently under-utilised North Terminal at Anchorage Ted Stevens in Alaska.
Corvus is a Washington corporation that currently holds...
