https://wowair.us/about-us/wow-aircraft/meet-the-wow-fleet/
Check this out...their planes have the aircraft equivalent of "vanity plates"
TF-WOW, TF-MOM, etc.
registration #s on WOW Air planes
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Their fleet is an average of 2.9 years old, per their website...
CHEAP flights are starting from CVG to Iceland with connections as far away as Tel Aviv...I'm intrigued.
Virgin Atlantic has "vanity" registrations on their aircraft too. Each of their aircraft has a name, and the registrations on most of them tie in to the aircraft's name.
It still surprises me that people enter the airline game. (and it's good that they do)
To be a low cost carrier AND to have new planes? In an extremely competitive industry? How do they do it?
According to those Wendover Productions videos on YouTube, the average US carrier only makes a few thousand per FULL transcon flight.
Most airlines have their own distinct registration series.
Deltas N numbers usually end in DL, for example.
You could spot the ex-Northwest DC-9s that had originally belonged to Republic because their regs ended in NC, or North Central. Northwest had DC-9s that came from a number of different carriers' fleets.
The 717s have regs ending in AT, the first operator of these aircraft, as do the 737s from that carrier that Southwest kept.
United aircraft have regs usually ending in UA.
With any airline, it's usually easy to spot the prior operator of an aircraft that saw service before joining its current fleet by the alpha numeric reg series.
This is nothing exclusive to WOW but is rather something spotters have been hip to for many years.
Who else checks the Airworthiness Certificate just inside the door on their commercial flights??? I'm most interested in the date of issuance...
So a -222 was an aircraft originally delivered to United?
Is this one still active, maybe in the far north? With the little low bypass Pratts, a 737-200 can be equipped to operate legally from gravel strips as I'm sure you already knew.
I should have thought of the airworthiness cert as a reference. It would not be at all unusual for a civil transport to have a max takeoff weight in excess of its max landing weight. Does this always require an exemption?
I always look at the build plate located in the frame of the L1 door.
Interesting how old some of the MD80s still in service with a certain airline are, but I guess that's what you can get when an airline has extensive MRO operations and even an engine shop.
These aircraft look good in an out and are carrying passenger numbers undreamed of when they were new, often on pretty quick turns.
Nice that aircraft built when I was still in my twenties are still earning a living and aren't parked up in the desert awaiting scrapping.
Isn't that usually the first word out of peoples mouths after they witness a crash?
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So a -222 was an aircraft originally delivered to United?
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