WOW
I happened to be at an airport the day this airline ceased operations – BWI as I recall; March 28, 2019. I watched them tow this plane off to the side someplace and there it sat … waiting for me to take this picture. Apparently, this plane had been repossessed by the lessor. It appears this aircraft ended up at Turkish Airlines.
All WOW flights were cancelled with no advance warning and thousands of stranded passengers were advised to book flights with other airlines.
WOW was an Icelandic carrier; it’s collapse was enough to affect the Icelandic economy.
Probably close to if not the last time I boarded one of these flying cigar tubes.
When Arizona first allowed concealed carry, they required a class of instruction and the class I took was 16 hours over 2 days. I say that because those 16 hours gave each of us an opportunity to meet and know a bit about the others.
We were in a break, and the topic was gun nuts that we gun nuts knew. Our group included a guy who worked at the local Harley dealership who wasn’t adding much to this conversation. Finally, he chimed in with saying that he knew a guy who had sand-bagged the bedroom to his house.
Winner. I know lots of guys who have made “interesting” decisions with their 2A collections, but I don’t know anyone who has gone to those lengths. Not even close.
Anyhoo, at one point, this Harley guy mentioned that in a prior life, he had been an airline pilot. He had worked for a company that most here probably have never heard of….Wein Air Alaska. That job ended rather suddenly when the payroll checks began to bounce. That’s a big clue that it is time to move on.
If the…
…it wouldn’t be the first, nor even the last.