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Sep 29, 2014 (newstodate): The Faroese carrier Atlantic Airways is rolling out the second of its three strategic pillars from September 2014 - NORD.
The airline presented its new strategy in June 2014, comprising three axis: Denmark - the trunk routes between the Faroe Islands and Denmark, NORD - frequent connections between the Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland and the UK, and SOL - flights from the Faroe Islands to leisure destinations with opportunities for the public to vote for favorite destinations.
The first step in realizing NORD will be introducing two weekly rotations on routes to Norway and Iceland, respectively, later to be expanded with several weekly rotations on flights to Iceland, Norway and Scotland from spring 2015.
The eventual schedules will be presented shortly, and the NORD flights will start out with Airbus A319 services until 2016 while the carrier is yet to decide on its aircraft type to serve the NORD schedules.
Among the criteria for choice of aircraft type to serve NORD will be the ability to implement the RNP-AR, developed by the Airbus subsidiary Quovadis for approach procedures that can bring the aircraft to a low decision altitude, aligned with the runway and avoiding turbulence areas.
After cutting its international charter and ACMI businesses, Atlantic Airways will let go one of its three Airbus A319 aircraft, one of which is owned while the two other aircraft are operated on lease contracts.
The airline presented its new strategy in June 2014, comprising three axis: Denmark - the trunk routes between the Faroe Islands and Denmark, NORD - frequent connections between the Faroe Islands, Norway, Iceland and the UK, and SOL - flights from the Faroe Islands to leisure destinations with opportunities for the public to vote for favorite destinations.
The first step in realizing NORD will be introducing two weekly rotations on routes to Norway and Iceland, respectively, later to be expanded with several weekly rotations on flights to Iceland, Norway and Scotland from spring 2015.
The eventual schedules will be presented shortly, and the NORD flights will start out with Airbus A319 services until 2016 while the carrier is yet to decide on its aircraft type to serve the NORD schedules.
Among the criteria for choice of aircraft type to serve NORD will be the ability to implement the RNP-AR, developed by the Airbus subsidiary Quovadis for approach procedures that can bring the aircraft to a low decision altitude, aligned with the runway and avoiding turbulence areas.
After cutting its international charter and ACMI businesses, Atlantic Airways will let go one of its three Airbus A319 aircraft, one of which is owned while the two other aircraft are operated on lease contracts.