New Pacific Airlines, previously known as Northern Pacific, has apparently gone out of business. The following email was shared with me, after being sent internally at the airline today:
Northern Pacific picked up used Boeing 757s, three quarters of them from American Airlines, and wanted to fly between the mainland U.S. and Asia via Anchorage. I was always skeptical this would work, but restrictions barring U.S. airlines from overflying Russia put a nail in those plans.
They rebranded as New Pacific and talked about flying between the U.S. and Mexico, and basing out of Saipan in the Northern Mariana islands. They finally offered some limited short domestic flights before ending commercial service in April 2024 – going into the sports and corporate charter business with a quarter of the 757s, configuring with 78 business class seats.
Related regional carrier Ravn Alaska, operating on the same certificate, ceased operations on August 5 2025. Its last scheduled flight was Valdez to Anchorage.
Maldives-based beOnd was going to work with them on an all-business class U.S. airline. This was announced just two weeks ago. I was skeptical.
Update: beOnd shares,
We are sympathetic to the team at New Pacific Airlines (NPA) and the employees affected by today’s news. This development does not impact beOnd’s strategy or its plan to establish beOnd America as a standalone luxury leisure carrier. From the outset, beOnd America has been structured with its own successor in interest and AOC holder, independent of NPA. Our timeline remains unchanged, with the goal of launching beOnd America operations in the second half of 2026.
beOnd declined to comment on whether their “own successor in interest” would be acquiring the Ravn/New Pacific Air Operator Certificate.
All part of the recently announced Be0nd deal to utilize the certificate.
Oh no! …anyway.
*burp*
Would be nice if someone utilizes those 757s. Maybe LaCompagnie?
@Common Sense — Boo. Hiss. La Campagnie is a321neo or bust. French business-class-only airline should not trust Boeing again. Matter of national pride. Zut alors!
@1990: I think they started out with 757s with angle flat business class seats.
It never looked promising.
But I loved the livery so that’s a loss
How do you become a millionaire? Have a billion dollars, then start an airline. Once again proven true. Low margin business, lots of barriers to entry, requires large scale. Just incredibly hard on niche entrants.
I kinda thought this was an interesting concept. For most TPAC routes you need to connect somewhere, and Alaska is on the way, and halfway there means big fuel savings. Plus, many both in US and Asia would love to go to Alaska for a stopover, see the northern lights, etc. if they focused on routes to Asia with few to no nonstop flights from the US, like most SE Asia countries, and then onward to US tourist destinations, it would have been intriguing…but still would have probably failed.
Optimistic to overfly Russia.
@Common Sense — Well-aware; La Compagnie commenced operations in 2014 using 752, originally from CDG-EWR, then added LTN-EWR, and by 2019 ditched Boeing for Airbus, switched ORY-EWR, added MXP, NCE.
@Mantis — That’s actually pretty funny (billionaires losing money on failed projects yet they’re still rich AF.) Yeah, a lot of these startups fail. Still, good on them for trying. Without risk takers we’d never innovate.
How gracious – shut down the day before US holidays, pay employees through the next day, and then “you’re on your own!”
Ouch.
Supply and demand paradox: as long as start-up focus more on operations than marketing, there is no proof of concept, only a dreamer’s recreation. Recruiting paying passengers can never be an after-thought no matter what.