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Its just an arbitrary 2 letter code, AW would have been great, but was still owned by AirWest I believe. It doesn't stand for anything, just like Frontier being F9, or Jet Blue being B6 or Southwest being WN.
 
HPearlyretiree said:
Happy Passengers!

Its just an arbitrary 2 letter code, AW would have been great, but was still owned by AirWest I believe. It doesn't stand for anything, just like Frontier being F9, or Jet Blue being B6 or Southwest being WN.
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Air West/Hughes Airwest always used the 'RW' IATA code, not AW.
Checking an old jp fleet list book from the time of HP's inception, the AW code at that time was assigned to Pacific Alaska Airlines, a small Everett, WA (Paine Field)-based operator with a couple of Fairchild F-27s.
Currently the AW designator belongs to DAS, an Indonesian feeder line operating Islanders and CASA 212s.
 
IATA Code: AW*
ICAO Code: DIR
Known As: Dirgantara Air Services
Full Name: P.T. Dirgantara Air Services
Country: Indonesia
Callsign: Dirgantara
Web Site:


IATA Code: AW
ICAO Code: SCH
Known As: Schreiner Airways
Full Name: Schreiner Airways B.V.
Country: Netherlands
Callsign: Schreiner
Web Site: www.schreiner.nl/

* = Controlled duplicate
 
I thought the original airwest (pre Hughes which was RW) had AW.

Can't say I've ever seen that Indonesian carrier!

I do miss those Dc9 and 727 banannas, it would be so cool if Northwest repainted one of the DC9's in the scheme before they retire it.
 
Some of the old RW Coded DC-9's are still in service with NWA...
 
America West also received their operating certificate from Hawaiian Pacific as well. I'm not sure, but I thought that the certificate had something to do with the the code the air carrier wields.
 
HPearlyretiree said:
Happy Passengers!

Its just an arbitrary 2 letter code, AW would have been great, but was still owned by AirWest I believe. It doesn't stand for anything, just like Frontier being F9, or Jet Blue being B6 or Southwest being WN.
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Actually, B6 has a meaning. JetBlue could not use JB because it is used by a helicopter company, so they had to select something else. B stands for Blue, and 6 is used to represent which terminal they operate out of from their main base(JFK).
 
ISP said:
Actually, B6 has a meaning.  JetBlue could not use JB because it is used by a helicopter company, so they had to select something else.  B stands for Blue, and 6 is used to represent which terminal they operate out of from their main base(JFK).
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How glamorous!

And well thought out, to boot. I wonder how long David N. taxed his incisive intellect to come up with that one?
 
nycbusdriver said:
How glamorous!

And well thought out, to boot. I wonder how long David N. taxed his incisive intellect to come up with that one?
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Probably not as long as you've worked for a loser company.
 

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