Why is Southwest's two letter code WN?

[Reebo]

It has been. Most of the planes are blue now. You need to fly a little more during the day.

Trust me they are painting the fleet. Got JA'd the other night to drop one off and pick one up from KPAE

 

[Reebo]

How about a little of that SWA creativity applied to the designs?

Are these creative enough for you?


http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1243116/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1206960/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1237482/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1057903/L/

And the "Classic" lives on!!!!

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1202701/L/

 

[roughneck]

It's because We'aint Northerners. (Except Herb who moved to Texas as fast as he could)

 

[bugchaser]

Tell you what, that 700 painted in the "classic" theme, looks pretty sharp. they put some metal flake in the paint and made the ol corn dog shine. Really, it looks pretty nice shining in the morning sun.

 

[OPNLguy]

Southwest's original 2-letter code was "OE" and nobody liked it. SW was indeed in use by an airline in Africa, and other alternatives were sought. I have it on good authority (a dispatcher fossil and original employee) that "WN" was chosen because it was the only availble code that had a "W" in it, and they wanted a code that had one so that they'd remember "SouthWest".

The WN code was years prior to the "We're Nuts" book, and it has no other significance.

 

[dash8driver]

it stands for "without nipples" -- because herb has no nipples....its true!



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[Hpilot]

WeeNer.
It's been shortened from it's original because, well... it's a short weener

 

[JimNtexas]

Southwest should hire the designer of the Express Jet paint job to redo their livery.

 

[Rickindfw]

Southwest should hire the designer of the Express Jet paint job to redo their livery.[/quote

I think the Express Jet paint scheme is ugly. New US Air is nice.

 

[tubelcane]

The last TWA paint job was top notch!