Internal Email Shows New Pacific Airlines Has Finally Shut Down — Ending Years of Failed Route Plans and Constant Reinvention

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.