New Pacific Airlines, formerly known as Northern Pacific Airways, has just revealed its two newest routes, as noted by @IshrionA.
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New Pacific Airlines adds Nashville & Reno routes
New Pacific Airlines currently exclusively operates up to 3x weekly flights between Ontario (ONT) and Las Vegas (LAS), though as of now these are only scheduled through early October 2023. The route operates on Sundays, Thursdays, and Fridays, with the following schedule:
7H777 Ontario to Las Vegas departing 1:55PM arriving 2:55PM
7H888 Las Vegas to Ontario departing 5:30PM arriving 6:30PM
The 197-mile flight is blocked at 1hr eastbound and 1hr westbound.
The airline is now adding two additional destinations to its route map — Reno and Nashville.
As of November 16, 2023, New Pacific Airlines will fly 2x weekly between Ontario (ONT) and Reno (RNO), with the following schedule on Sundays and Thursdays:
7H711 Ontario to Reno departing 8:30AM arriving 10:00AM
7H775 Reno to Ontario departing 11:15AM arriving 12:45PM
The 394-mile flight is blocked at 1hr30min eastbound and 1hr30min westbound.
As of November 17, 2023, New Pacific Airlines will fly 2x weekly between Ontario (ONT) and Nashville (BNA), with the following schedule on Mondays and Fridays:
7H701 Ontario to Nashville departing 10:00AM arriving 3:50PM
7H702 Nashville to Ontario departing 5:10PM arriving 7:30PM
The 1,751-mile flight is blocked at 3hr50min eastbound and 4hr20min westbound.
What a fascinating airline startup!
Honestly, is this the most interesting airline startup ever, or what? The airline initially planned to fly from Anchorage to Tokyo, Osaka, and Seoul, and is now instead flying from Ontario to Las Vegas, Reno, and Nashville.
While the Ontario to Las Vegas route has some competition, interestingly the other two routes don’t have service from any other airlines. I have to imagine that’s due to lack of demand, or else an airline like Southwest or Frontier would’ve already launched these routes. Las Vegas, Reno, and Nashville… is the airline trying to corner the SoCal bachelorette party market, or how is New Pacific Airlines selecting these routes?
Let’s see how New Pacific Airlines does with large aircraft that aren’t terribly fuel efficient, with no name recognition, and with only twice weekly flights.
I’ve been wanting to fly with New Pacific Airlines, so I think the Nashville to Ontario route is the perfect opportunity to try the carrier’s service. However, I’ll wait to book my ticket until closer to the launch date, because I’m not convinced this is happening.
New Pacific Airlines still intends to finally launch transpacific flights in 2024, though I’m curious to see how that plays out.
Bottom line
New Pacific Airlines is adding two new routes, as the airline will fly from Ontario to Reno and Nashville as of November 2023. The airline will serve both markets twice weekly with Boeing 757s, and these are routes that don’t have any competition.
What do you make of New Pacific Airlines’ expansion?
New Pacific (not the best name out there), Air Belgium, Global Airlines … people seem to have an endless fascination with starting their own airline. It’s mind boggling going through the list of carriers (past and present) on sites like airliners.net
Wasn't this Northern Pacific Airlines? I didn't catch that they changed their name...
WN flew BNA-ONT nonstop for many years - I am actually surprised they suspended the route and didn't return it. Maybe with this new startup coming onto the route, plus the new WN crew base in Nashville, WN might decide to reenter the market? Plus, when WN pulled out, ONT was owned by LA World Airports, and had a declining passenger base...
Wasn't this Northern Pacific Airlines? I didn't catch that they changed their name...
WN flew BNA-ONT nonstop for many years - I am actually surprised they suspended the route and didn't return it. Maybe with this new startup coming onto the route, plus the new WN crew base in Nashville, WN might decide to reenter the market? Plus, when WN pulled out, ONT was owned by LA World Airports, and had a declining passenger base and exorbitant costs. Now that ONT is independent, and SNA and LGB are confided by slow growth measures, ONT is now one of the fastest growing airports not just in Southern California, but in the entire nation. Additionally Reno Air used to fly ONT-RNO is the mid-1990's - it seems like the time is right for another airline to try that route.
ONT-BNA definitely has demand. Southwest flew the route in the 90s/00s, but Inland SoCal was hit rather hard by the Great Recession. Nashville is definitely a route that ONT wants to see back, per Routesonline. However, Southwest has lately been focusing on building its Long Beach operation. ONT is probably further down the list of priorities.
I’m based at BNA, so let’s do the BNA-ONT!
How are they doing with ETOPS certification?
I’m always excited to find express to Reno. Wish it were out of Palm Springs. But if they make a go of it I will definitely give it a try.
Yes! Palm Springs is underserved.
So LAS, RNO, and BNA? Should have renamed to "Bachelorette Express Airlines"
New Pacific is the new Air Belgium. Nobody can figure out how (or why) they makes there decisions
It would be nice to see if they could make ORD work since United and American have given up on this route. United and American had 2 flights a day.
Fake airline continuing to do fake airline things.
LAX-BNA is historically pricey compared to similarly distanced routes. ONT-BNA is a great addition and hopefully the beginning of much needed additions to ONT.
I hope New Pacific Airlines will fly to a Pacific destination like Honolulu in the future.