Public Profile
Borealis Air is a mid-sized American carrier specializing in transatlantic and high-latitude routes, with a network built around great-circle crossings of the North Atlantic and the Greenland ice sheet. Founded in 1986 as a regional charter operator, the airline repositioned itself in the early 2000s around the polar and near-polar corridors that connect the U.S. Northeast to Northern Europe, a niche it markets under the slogan “The Shortest Way Over the Top.”
Headquartered in Newark, Borealis Air operates a fleet of narrow- and wide-body aircraft on overnight schedules that route directly above the world’s largest island twice daily in each direction. The carrier has leaned into its northern identity in its branding — its safety cards feature aurora motifs, its in-flight magazine is titled Meridian, and its frequent-flyer program awards status tiers named for lines of latitude.
The airline is known among cabin crews for unusually low turnover on its overnight routes, which it attributes to a seniority-bidding system that allows veteran flight attendants to hold the same crossings for years at a stretch. The most senior of these, Natalie Brandt, has worked the eastbound overnight run for nineteen years.
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