How Good Is Wow Airlines?

How Good Is Wow Airlines
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    review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: The funny wow air sayings on the plane. Cons: The seats were the most cramped and uncomfortable seats I’ve ever experience. Could at least serve guests free water. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: I was not expecting much. But if you know how the system works, you will know what to expect. Surprisingly nice, brand spanking new plane, calming purple decor in the cabin, the FA was efficient, attentive without being cloying. I was thoroughly impressed considering that it was a low cost carrie Cons: The sad thing is that after my flight, WOW has gone belly up. How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: Comfortable, nice planes Cons: better boarding review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: Great service for great price review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: Nothing. Cons: Everything. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Cons: Just had annoying drunk frat boys on the flight. But you can’t know all the fellow travelers beforehand. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: Great for getting from point A to point B. Didn’t need anything fancy and this is the airline for that. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: XL seats were well worth the upgrade. Cons: I understood the flights lacked wifi, entertainment, and food amenities. I did not realize even water cost money. Make sure you fill up a water bottle before boarding! review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: I liked the upgraded seat on the first half of the journey but not the fact that I didn’t get the same seat on the second half without any apologies or attempts to make up for their faults. Cons: They could have properly trained customer service against instead of maladjusted robots who show zero sympathy for their passengers concerns. I will never fly this airline again. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pretty good for a budget airline. Pros: Nice newish planes. Competent but basic service in the air. Nice air crew. Cons: Ground agents are bad. Don’t care about you. Won’t answer questions. Don’t care what happens to you. Don’t care if you make your flight, or if your connection is delayed. How Good Is Wow Airlines WOW doesn’t care if you miss your flight. Pros: The planes are nice and new. Prices are very cheap. If you book economy and then upgrade to “extra room” seats and buy a meal seats you’re basically flying in what they call businiess class for a lot less.

    Cons: There was a huge snowstorm in Boston. A lot of people did not make it to the airport before the check-in desk closed. The airplane itself was grounded because of the snow for two hours. So a lot of people were in the main waiting area, while their plane was at the gate, but WOW did not care at all.

    They would not bring any gate agents out to check people in even though the plane was on the ground waiting. Many of us tried calling their support line – no answer. After a very long wait you get to what sounds like an India or Pakistan call center. The people there don’t have any information, and the only things they can do are whatever you can do on the website.

    1. WOW has no real phone agents.
    2. I saw their gate agents later walking around and asked them to check us in – they shrugged.
    3. Would not check us in, despite the plane being on the ground.
    4. They could care less.
    5. Other airlines were shocked at how we were treated.
    6. Iceland Air was amazing.
    7. They saw our predicament and brought one of their managers out to their check-in gate to sell us last minute tickets on Iceland Air.

    A bunch of WOW customers ended up getting tickets on Iceland Air, and we actually ended up flying out of Boston before the delayed WOW air flight. If you get on the WOW flight – service is good. But you’re taking a risk. Ground staff really does not care at all and will pretend they don’t know you. How Good Is Wow Airlines More like whehhh Pros: In flight staff was friendly. Cons: $46 for a carry on bag that I was not initially charged for on my flight from Cleveland. Bag had even less contents than when i came. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines MY REVIEW WILL NOT FIT. CONTINUED HERE. Pros: (3/4) My friend finally came up from baggage claim and had told me that no bags came, and the staff member we were speaking to downstairs told us that our luggage was probably already on its way to Chicago.

    Note that he never asked for our names or our baggage claim ticket. We bought a plane ticket on Icelandair for the next afternoon, found an ACE Guesthouse to stay at, paid for another cab, and left with our carry-ons with nothing useful for overnight because of the first encounter at the check-in counter where we weren’t able to properly remove our chosen belongings from our suitcases.

    The next morning after I woke up and as soon as I knew our original flight had landed, I tried to call O’Hare to confirm that our bags had indeed made it to Chicago. I was not able to get ahold of anyone that could help. When we got to the airport, 4.5 hours early, we checked in and went straight to baggage claim to double check where our bags were.

    We were not leaving Iceland until we were 100% sure of where our belongings were. Lo and behold, it’s the same employee that was working in the baggage claim area the day before. He remembered us, and told us that he had good news and bad news. The good news was that they found our bags, the bad news was that was our bags were on their way to Boston.

    Boston? BOSTON?! He said they went to Boston because if there were bags left here, it was mandatory that they get sent as fast as they could to the country they are scheduled to arrive at, no matter what airport. That location happened to be Boston. We have NO idea why this was the case, when they knew that we had missed our flight and were still in Iceland.

    Isn’t it mandatory that luggage stay with the owner? We wanted to call Boston to make sure that our bags were there, and to have them sent to Chicago so that they were in Chicago when we arrived later that day. He told us that there was nothing that we could do, that we would have to wait until we get to Chicago, file a claim, and then they would have our bags sent to us a day or so later.

    Note again, that he never asked for our names or our bag claim number. Begrudgingly, we left him, even more furious, and waited for our next flight. Meanwhile, I tried to get ahold of anyone from O’Hare – no luck. I tried to get ahold of anyone from Boston – no luck.

    • Finally, I decided to call WOW Customer Service.
    • I explained the situation to her, and told her that it was absolutely necessary to know where my bags were, and to know that they would be waiting for me in Chicago when I arrived, also questioning WHY protocol called for our bags being sent to Boston.

    She asked for the claim number, and told me the last time the bags were scanned was in Iceland. They were at the airport. I told her this was impossible, because I spoke to the same person the day before and today, and he said our bags were not at this airport.

    She insisted that they were. Cons: (4/4) At this point, a few hours had gone by, and we were running short on time. With AN HOUR left until our DEPARTURE TIME, we went back to baggage claim and told the same employee that WOW had told us our bags were scanned in here. He seemed confused, and said he was not sure how this could be possible.

    My friend spotted her bag behind him, and pointed it out. He seemed shocked. I didn’t see my bag anywhere, and asked him where it was, and he said that maybe it got swapped out with someone else’s, because he didn’t see it. My friend asked him to please check the back for my suitcase.

    Sure enough, it was there. CLEARLY, this employee had no idea what he was doing. He gave us misinformation numerous times. If we had not been so persistent, we never would have known that our bags were still at KEF in Iceland. HOW WOULD WE HAVE GOTTEN OUR BAGS TO CHICAGO??????????? If I had listened to the guy and trusted him, we would have landed in Chicago, filed a claim, and seen that there were NO bags in Chicago, and NO bags in Boston.

    Our belongings would have been stuck in Iceland. We then had hardly any time to go back to the check-in counter and check our bags. We waited in another line, checked our bags, and ran to our gate. Every other KEF staff member that we tried to speak to was very short and rude, unhelpful, and in a hurry to get us out of the way.

    Even when we tried to find someone at a kiosk, there was no one there working the kiosk. Nearly every employee at KEF had lied to my face, and did not care that I needed help. If I had not been lied to about information regarding notifications, flights, baggage, etc. on numerous accounts, I know for a FACT that I would have made sure I made my flight.

    This experience is absolutely unacceptable. The incapable, rude, and dishonest airport staff and unaccommodating airlines costed us an extra $1,000 each. It also cost us the couple hundred dollars we would have made at work the next day. I will never fly WOW again. How Good Is Wow Airlines TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AT KEF AIRPORT AND WITH WOW AIR Pros: NOTHING. My experience won’t fit in the negative comments, so I’m starting it here. (1/4) We had a 21 hour layover in Iceland, so we left the airport for the night. The next morning, on our way to the airport, we tried to check-in online, but the online check-in service was not working.

    We arrived about two hours before our scheduled departure and had to wait in a long line since the online check-in service was not working. We checked our bags and ran into our first unfortunate encounter with the airport staff. He sent my friend’s bags through, without checking the weight. When he weighed my bag, he then noticed that the first bag sent through was overweight, and mentioned that he had made a mistake.

    He decided to weigh both our bags together as one entity (to equal 88 lbs.) and made me empty out my suitcase of the extra weight from not only my single bag, but the extra weight from the first bag, as well. He said it was too late to retrieve the first bag, so my friend and I had to divvy up my stuff between our carry on bags.

    Had we known the first bag was overweight, we would have been able to easily taken stuff out of our OWN suitcases and into our OWN carry ons. Which would have been helpful for what was to come. We then walked through the foodcourt to buy some overpriced snacks for the plane. When we decided it was time to go to our gate, we passed a horrifically long line of people that we assumed couldn’t be the line to get through customs, because the last few times we had been at this airport, there was always a maximum of 20 people in line.

    Once we realized that this line was for customs, we asked an employee working the line if we’d be able to make our flight on time if we had to wait in this line. He said not to worry, that we would be okay, because all of the airlines were notified of the unexpected delay at customs.

    1. We patiently waited in this line, and as soon as we were through, ran to our gates.
    2. At this point, we knew we were going to JUST miss the time for the gate to close, but were consoled by the fact that the employee at customs had told us that the airlines were notified that some of us would be late arriving due to the unexpected delay and line.

    We arrived at the gate, and the airport staff working the gate laughed in our faces and told us it was too late. They said they never heard from anyone about any delays at customs, and that the transportation bus to the airplane had left ten minutes ago.

    1. Too bad!” they said.
    2. How could it have left ten minutes prior, if the gate said it had closed only a few minutes before we arrived? A lie.
    3. We asked about our luggage.
    4. Cons: (2/4) They said that they would notify the plane, and the bags would be taken off, and that we could find them at baggage claim.
    5. So let me get this straight – the plane can wait for someone to sift through all of the baggage, find our bags, and remove them from the plane, but wouldn’t allow us to take the probably less time to just get on the plane? We asked if there was anyone from WOW that we could speak to, and they pointed us in the direction of another gate.

    Once we got to that area, there was another group of people that also missed their flight due to the unexpected line at customs. They were speaking with a lady who was telling them that no one from WOW was at the airport, they all went home for the day.

    We also attempted to talk to this lady, but she was in a hurry to leave for the day, as well, and was very dismissive and talked to us in passing. On our way to baggage claim, we passed customs, which by this time, had no line. We spoke to three people that were standing in that area, and were looking for the guy who told us that our plane was notified of the delay.

    He was no longer around, but the staff standing there had said that they were unsure why we were told that any aircrafts were notified of delays because that was not true, and that they also were not even ALLOWED to tell travelers this information. So.

    The guy that we spoke to in the customs line lied to my face, and was not even allowed to tell us what he did. This infuriates me for MANY reasons. If I had known that we would not make it through the customs line in time, I would have politely asked other travelers towards the front of the line if we could pass them.

    Most people are very nice, and would of course let us in front of them. I know I would have done that for someone. But instead, since a KEF AIRPORT STAFF told me that MY PLANE WAS NOTIFIED OF THE DELAY, I patiently waited in line. Yet another lie. We finally got to baggage claim, and spoke with one of the employees there.

    He told us that he was not aware of any bags coming back in, but it usually takes about 30 mins. At this point, it probably had already been that long, but my friend waited anyways. Meanwhile, I went back to the check-in area to see if there was anyone available to talk to about the circumstances, or if there was another flight we could get on because both my friend and I had to work the next day.

    There was no one anywhere, except for at the the Icelandair counter. The woman I spoke to there was very nice (shocker), but there was nothing she could do, that all of the flights leaving the airport to the US for the rest of the day had just closed their time for purchasing tickets. How Good Is Wow Airlines Cons: Seats are too small review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: I got a seat with more leg room and it was much more comfortable Cons: Boarding was a bit frantic because of the lines at the airport for customs review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Cons: Didn’t take the flight. Wasn’t allowed to cancel. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Lost Money Pros: Nothing Cons: Seats e not comfortable. u have to buy everything. even a water staff is not caring review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Don’t think I’ll fly wow again Pros: Apart from over priced in flight food and drink, uncomfortable seats I was treated awfully on return flight from Newark by one attendent. I will be writing an official complaint today. I was charged a ridiculous price $100 for my carry on bag that was checked as free personal item on first trip.

    • Lack of available information or internet at boarding gate was shocking.
    • I explained multiple times I had the correct dimensions of bag and it was smaller then people’s rucksacks who got on before me and were not charged.
    • Besides this the whole thing was handled very badly by the boarding crew there with the lady being very rude to me, I was quite shocked and upset getting in plane.

    I had no money left on my visa afterward to even get food or drink in airport stop ever which was delayed. Cons: Staff rude, uncomfortable flight /plane. Over priced service. No cash accepted in flight. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: No frills budget carrier, mostly exactly as I expected. Cons: If you overbuy luggage allowance, there is no way to undo it, even within 24 hours. I made a mistake, thinking I needed to purchase more luggage, recognized my mistake right away, and still ended up paying for luggage allowance I didn’t need. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: Price was very inexpensive, crew was polite and efficient and our flights were on time. Airport in Iceland seems new and hip, but is small. Cons: No entertainment, but that’s how they keep costs low. Seating was not incredibly clean. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: Price was very inexpensive, crew was polite and efficient and our flights were on time. The food was fine, but a little overpriced. Cons: No entertainment, but that’s how they keep costs low. Seating was not incredibly clean. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Catching up after delay Pros: Delay was minimized. Wow left enough leeway to naked up some time after a big snow storm. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Cheap flight Pros: The price Cons: The delay review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: Crew was wonderful. Cons: My check in luggage got left behind,Didn’t receive it for five days. A set of cuff-links I had in my luggage as a graduation present for my nephew was missing when my luggage finally arrived. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Pros: The flight was smooth and on time. The crew was competent. Cons: For the second time my luggage was missing on arrival at Baltimore too. Didn’t receive it until seven days after arrival. review from How Good Is Wow Airlines On time Pros: More leg room Cons: No movie or entertainment review from How Good Is Wow Airlines Cramped Pros: Boarding was simple compared to the complexity of many airlines with all their zones – peasants in the back type of thing. Fare was about half that of other airlines. Delays on both planes, but weather may have been an issue. Cons: My allocated seat was so cramped my knees were compressed against the seat back in front, however I sat. How Good Is Wow Airlines

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Why did wow airlines fail?

Icelandic budget airline WOW Air suspended operations and declared bankruptcy in March 2019. In doing so, thousands of passengers were left stranded, and those without proper insurance lost their unused airfare. Since then, the coronavirus pandemic has forced several carriers to collapse. Now in the recovery era, we thought it would be good to re-examine the factors that led to WOW ‘s bankruptcy.

Who took over WOW Air?

Icelandair has agreed to acquire ultra-low-cost carrier Wow Air, WOW Air shareholders are set to receive 5.4% of Icelandair’s value at $18 million to $25 million. The deal is still subject to approval from Icelandair Group’s investors, Icelandic antitrust authorities, and due diligence.

Since its founding in 2011, Wow Air has fought Icelandair, the country’s flag carrier, for business to the island nation. That competition has officially come to a close. On Monday, Icelandair announced it has agreed to acquire the upstart Icelandic ultra-low-cost carrier.

  1. Icelandair Group has entered into a share purchase agreement to purchase all shares of airline WOW air,” the carrier said in a statement.
  2. In the deal, Wow Air’s shareholders will receive a 5.4% stake in Icelandair.
  3. Reuters values the deal at $18 million.
  4. However, Bloomberg reports the Wow Air deal to be worth around $25 million, based on a $455 million valuation of Icelandair.

Wow Air’s shareholders will be barred from selling any newly received Icelandair stock for six months with half of the shares subject to an additional six-month moratorium. Read more : The 20 safest airlines in the world “WOW Air has in recent years built a strong brand and enjoyed great success in the company’s markets to and from Iceland and across the Atlantic,” Icelandair Group interim president and CEO Bogi Nils Bogason said in a statement. How Good Is Wow Airlines Foto: An Icelandair Boeing 757-200.sourceIcelandair Led by founder and CEO Skuli Mogensen, Wow Air has become well-known among value-conscious traveler for its rock-bottom prices and flashy fuchsia jets. The 7-year-old airline made headlines over the past couple of years with sales featuring $55 and $70 transatlantic flights.

  • I am very proud of the success and development that we at WOW Air have enjoyed in the past few years and I am thankful for the response we have received since our very first flight,” Mogensen said in a statement.
  • We have created a strong team that has reached remarkable success and has been a pioneer in low-cost flights across the North Atlantic.” However, in an internal email obtained by Bloomberg, Mogensen explained to his employees that part of his rationale for selling to Icelandair was due to the tough market conditions.

Read more : Singapore Airlines executive reveals why its new Airbus jet is such a game-changing advantage for the airline over its rivals Both Icelandic airlines had been struggling this year due to high fuel prices, a slowdown in tourism to Iceland, and increased low-cost competition.

What planes did WOW Air use?

Collapse of the airline – Without investment, WOW Air’s problems mounted. It cut back staff, and returned four aircraft to lessors, and canceled further aircraft orders. CEO Mogensen even injected a further €5.5 million ($6.5 million) of his own money into the airline.

On March 28th, 2019, WOW Air announced it was ceasing operations. Passengers were left stranded overseas, but the collapse was not really a surprise. The airline had been canceling flights for days beforehand. And there had been extensive negative press in the weeks and months leading up to it. This certainly did not help as the airline tried to deal with investment offers and generate revenue.

At the time of its collapse, WOW Air’s fleet consisted of Airbus A321-200 and Airbus A321neo aircraft. These found new homes with Air Canada Rouge, Condor, Turkish low-cost airline Onur Air, and leasing companies Bocomm and ALC. How Good Is Wow Airlines Air Canada Rouge took on eight former WOW Air Airbus A321s. However, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has seen much of its fleet become grounded. Photo: Getty Images The collapse also had a serious impact on the economy of Iceland. Tourism forms a major part of Iceland’s economy, and WOW Air played a big role in this with its low-cost flights.

How many A320 are still flying?

Orders and deliveries – The A320ceo family was the fastest-selling airliner from 2005 to 2007. Its successor, the A320neo family, improved on this with 1,420 orders and commitments in less than a year in 2011. In November 2013, the A320 family aircraft reached 10,000 orders.

In October 2019, the A320 family became the highest-selling airliner family with 15,193 orders, surpassing the Boeing 737’s total of 15,136. In August 2021, the A320 family passed the 10,000 delivery mark, 33 years after its introduction, versus 50 years for the Boeing 737, which passed the 10,000 delivery mark in March 2018.

On 16 December 2021, the last member of the A320ceo family, an A321ceo (MSN 10315), was delivered from the assembly line Airbus Mobile in Alabama, In July 2022, total orders for the A320neo family reached 8,502, exceeding the total orders for the A320ceo family of 8,120.

Type Orders Deliveries
Total Backlog Total 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016
A318 80 80 1
A319 1,486 2 1,484 2 3 4 8 10 4
A320 4,763 11 4,752 3 49 133 184 251
A321 1,791 7 1,784 22 9 38 99 183 222
– A320ceo – 8,120 20 8,100 24 15 91 240 377 477
A319neo 91 81 10 6 2 2
A320neo 3,965 2,314 1,651 246 258 253 381 284 161 68
A321neo 4,609 3,678 931 264 199 178 168 102 20
– A320neo – 8,665 6,073 2,592 516 459 431 551 386 181 68
(A320 family) (16,785) (6,093) (10,692) (516) (483) (446) (642) (626) (558) (545)

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Type Deliveries 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 A318 – 1 2 2 2 6 13 – 17 8 9 10 9 – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – A319 24 34 38 38 47 51 88 98 105 137 142 87 72 85 89 112 88 53 47 18 – – – – – – – – A320 282 306 352 332 306 297 221 209 194 164 121 101 119 116 119 101 101 80 58 38 34 48 71 111 119 58 58 16 A321 184 150 102 83 66 51 87 66 51 30 17 35 33 35 49 28 33 35 22 16 22 16 – – – – – – – A320ceo – 491 490 493 455 421 401 402 386 367 339 289 233 233 236 257 241 222 168 127 72 56 64 71 111 119 58 58 16 – A320neo – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – (A320 family) (491) (490) (493) (455) (421) (401) (402) (386) (367) (339) (289) (233) (233) (236) (257) (241) (222) (168) (127) (72) (56) (64) (71) (111) (119) (58) (58) (16)

Data as of 31 December 2022.

Is WoW now owned by Microsoft?

In 1979, a group of disgruntled Atari employees decided to quit and create their own company. Activision was the world’s first “third-party” game development company, producing and publishing titles for other companies’ platforms. Fast-forward 43 years and the company that is now Activision Blizzard has been bought by one of the major platform owners in the industry, Microsoft, for a blistering US$68.7 billion dollars (around A$95.6 billion) – the largest sale in the history of the video game industry.

What happened on SW airlines?

Southwest Airlines flight attendant breaks her back during hard landing in California August 9, 2022 / 8:25 AM / AP A Southwest Airlines flight attendant suffered a compression fracture to a vertebra in her upper back during a hard landing last month in California, according to federal safety investigators.

The NTSB said none of the other 141 people on board the plane were injured in the incident at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California.The pilots told investigators that they were aiming for the normal touchdown zone on the relatively short runway.”However, it ended up being a firm landing,” the NTSB said in its final report, dated Friday.Dallas-based Southwest said in a statement Monday, “We reported the matter to the NTSB in accordance with regulatory requirements and conducted an internal review of the event.”

A spokeswoman for the airline declined to provide further information when asked about the result of the internal investigation and whether the plane was inspected for evidence of damage that could occur during a hard landing. The plane has been making several flights a day, according to tracking services.

Shortly after the 18-year-old Boeing 737-700 taxied off the runway, the pilots – a 55-year-old captain and 49-year-old co-pilot – were told about the injury to the flight attendant, who was in a jump seat at the back of the plane. The NTSB, which did not travel to the accident site, has not made its documents from the investigation publicly available.

The runway that the plane landed on is only 5,700 feet long. By comparison, runways at nearby Los Angeles International Airport range between 8,900 and nearly 13,000 feet. The NTSB investigation was reported earlier by The Dallas Morning News. First published on August 9, 2022 / 8:25 AM © 2022 The Associated Press.

When did wow shut down?

WOW Sight & Sound WOW Sight & Sound TypePrivateIndustryFounded2003FounderSam SavvasSotiris SotirisDefunct2019Fate (retail stores)Headquarters, Australia ProductsConsumer electronics, Video Games, Movies Number of employees 500 (2012)Website WOW Sight & Sound, WOW Sight and Sound was an Australian retailer.

Founded in 2003 with a single store in, it grew to 15 stores in,, and the, The stores sold a wide range of electronic equipment including televisions and set-top boxes, portable media players, mobile phones, car audio, navigations systems and radios, accessories. A range of consumer electronics products were sold under the ” Vue and Nashi ” house brand.

WOW Sight & Sound at one point was also a reseller. It also sold a range of,, video games and music CDs. In 2008, WOW launched an online store where most products sold at storefront were available to be purchased online. In February 2012, the company was placed in by the,

The company had experienced a 7.7% decline in revenue in 2011 and was owed $20 m by failed property development investment company Aristicon. Having been unable to find a buyer, in March 2012 administrator closed all 15 stores. In June 2012, WOW became an online-only retailer after the name WOW Sight and Sound was purchased from the administrators by an entity not related to the original company or owners Sam Savvas and Sotiris Sotiris.

As of July 2014, WOW Sight & Sound name was re-launched as an online store by the new owner of the name. The store now consists of three websites offering customers a single checkout across all three stores. The new company ceased operations in May 2019