National Airlines (N7)

National Airlines (N7)
National Airlines
IATA
N7
ICAO
ROK
Callsign
RED ROCK
Founded 1995
Commenced operations 1999
Ceased operations 2002
Hubs McCarran International Airport
Fleet size 19
Destinations 14
Company slogan Everything's better up here.
Headquarters Las Vegas, Nevada
Key people Michael Conway (President and CEO
Website www.nationalairlines.com (defunct)

National Airlines (IATA: N7, ICAO: ROK, Call sign: Red Rock) was a Las Vegas based low fare airline, and the third United States-based airline to use the name. The airline was created to bring tourists to Las Vegas. As a result, it offered service to a limited number of cities with high traffic to Las Vegas. The airline operated a fleet of 19 Boeing 757-200s in a two-class configuration.

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History

Hoping to attract more visitors from the East Coast, Harrah's Entertainment and the former Rio Hotel & Casino, Inc., each contributed $15 million toward the start-up costs of National Airlines in July 1998. Wexford Capital, owners of Republic Airways Holdings also contributed several million to this create this airline.[1]

On May 27, 1999, the airline started service, becoming the third airline in the United States to use the National Airlines name. Michael Conway became President and CEO of the company. However, from its inception in 1999, the company fought an uphill battle against rising fuel costs and an economic recession. In response, National Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on December 6, 2000.

Like many other airlines at the time, the new National found itself in financial trouble after 9/11, and only 41 months after its inaugural flight left Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport on May 27, 1999, the bankrupt airline ceased all operations on November 6, 2002.

As of the day of National's grounding on November 6, 2002, the airline had carried 1.85 million passengers through McCarran (January - November, 2002), and was the airport's fourth-largest carrier based on passenger volume. Departing McCarran International Airport at 4:20 P.M., National Airlines Flight 354 to Dallas/Fort Worth was the carrier's last to leave the Las Vegas hub.

Destinations

At the time National Airlines was grounded, the airline provided service to 14 destinations throughout the United States: [2]

United States

California

District of Columbia

See Virginia for Washington, D.C. service

Florida

Illinois

New Jersey

New York

Nevada

Pennsylvania

Texas

Virginia

Washington

Fleet

At the time the airline was grounded, National had 19 aircraft in its fleet consisting of:

National Airlines Fleet
Aircraft Total Passengers
(First/Coach)
Notes
Boeing 757-200 19 175
(22/153)
National's cabins provided coach seats at 33" and first class at 40", greater pitch than that of most legacy carriers at the time.

The 757's were sent to scrap yards and all were sold, eight of them under a new registration number.[3]

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