Airline Name
AVANT AirlinesIATA: OT / ICAO: VAT / CALLSIGN: AVANT
Founded and commenced operations in 1997, ceased operations in 2001 (Mar. 10th)
(Declared bankruptcy)
Country of Origin
Chile, South America ()
Main Hub(s): Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport (SCL)
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
(All operated types are in WoA already - or are planned to be.)Aircraft operated:
Boeing 737 (-200, -200 Adv, B732) - 10 former.
(5 of each variant.)
(Pictured below: Boeing 737-200 CC-CVA - now known as FAP353, stored)Now, despite only operating 737-200s, this airline had quite a variety of liveries, changing up the colors across various 737s of both variants, which will be shown as you continue, such as this next one:
(Pictured below: Boeing 737-200 CC-CVB - now known as FAP354, stored)(Pictured below: Boeing 737-200 CC-CSL - later scrapped)
Now, with the 737-200 Advs, there’s a certain livery I wanted to mention. Supposedly, AVANT came up with a new livery shortly before the airline went out of business… and when I mean “shortly before”, I mean it - according to photographer comment, this new livery debuted about two weeks prior to the airline’s collapse.
As such, media is understandably hard to find of it, but there was this one shot that I was able to find of a 737 bearing the new livery, so here it is:
(Pictured below: Boeing 737-200 Adv CC-CSI - later broken up)Now, with that out of the way, here are the 737-200 Adv’s livery variants:
(Pictured below: Boeing 737-200 Adv CC-CSH - later broken up)(Pictured below: Boeing 737-200 Adv CC-CVD - stored)
(Pictured below: Boeing 737-200 Adv CC-CVC - later broken up)
Why should this airline be added?
I’d say this airline should be added as it’d be a small yet nice addition to the 737 family, adding to events in the South American region (especially SCL, its hub). Despite only operating 737-200s, this airline did have quite a bit of livery variation as you could see, and the short-lived new livery would be awesome to see represented as well.It’d in general just be a nice little addition and would add to the events one could see in the likes of SCL or GRU, and it could possibly even be present in the former as special contract material, but either way it’d be great to see in-game with the soon-to-be 737 family.
(Just a small little note: I decided to try out the grid system with this suggestion. I might include this in future suggestions, even if it does add a little bit more work. Now, I don’t usually ask for stuff like this, but if you liked the format of this suggestion better, I’d appreciate it if you let me know about it, be it through a reply or in DMs - thanks in advance if you do so.)
SOURCES:
AVANT Airlines’ Planespotters.net Page
AVANT Airlines’ Wikipedia Page
