Airline Name
ZipIATA: 3J / ICAO: WZP / CALLSIGN: ZIPPER
Founded and commenced operations in 2002 (Sep. 22nd), ceased operations in 2004 (Sep.)
(Reintegrated into Air Canada, its parent company)
Country of Origin
Canada, North America ()
Main Hub(s): Calgary International Airport (YYC)
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
(All operated aircraft types are present in WoA already - or are planned to be.)Aircraft operated (already in-game/planned):
Boeing 737 (-200 Adv, B732) - 20 former.
(Pictured below: C-GCPP - now known as PR-MTG, stored)Now, one of the core parts of this airline’s identity involved the use of various, usually bright colors across their aircraft, with C-GCPP above having a fuchsia/neon pink color of sorts.
This will be a common theme across this airline’s fleet - such is seen in the next aircraft below, painted as a bright orange:(Pictured below: C-GCPO - now known as N718SH, stored)
And this next aircraft, which was painted a bright green:
(Pictured below: C-GCPN - later broken up, known as YV295T at end of its life)
And finally, this aircraft had a bright blue scheme:
(Pictured below: C-GJCP - later broken up, known as YV287T at end of its life)
And that’s just about it for these bright liveries. However, they were not the only liveries the aircraft under Zip wore - later on around 2003, a new livery scheme was unveiled for the airline.
The new liveries moved away from the usual, fully painted aircraft - however, the main colors were still kept, just only painted around the tail, and the airline’s website was displayed on the forward fuselage as opposed to on the engines.
With that established, here’s what those liveries looked like, in the same color order as above:(Pictured below: C-GFCP - now known as N226GC, stored)
(Pictured below: C-FCPN - later broken up, known as OB-1956 at end of its life)
(Pictured below: C-GCPQ - now known as N764SH, stored)
(Pictured below: C-GCPM - now known as N716SH, stored)
Now, there were also quite a few unique liveries in the fleet, such as this black tail scheme, worn by only one aircraft:
(Pictured below: C-GCPZ - now known as 5N-BEV, stored)
This next one is more of a colorful special livery, rolled out for the Christmas of 2003:
(Pictured below: C-GMCP - later scrapped, known as 5N-BHI at end of its life)
This aircraft had also received a Christmas livery the previous winter, too:
(Pictured below: Ditto, in earlier Christmas 2002 livery)
Zip didn’t just celebrate Christmas, however - as a matter of fact, one of their aircraft, fittingly an orange-colored one (featured above, actually), had also received a little updated version of its livery for the Halloween of 2002:
(Pictured below: C-GCPO - again)
The aircraft also would receive a Christmas livery, similar to C-GMCP above, for the Christmas of 2002, though pictures appear to be pretty scarce of it, unfortunately:
(Pictured below: Ditto, in later Christmas 2002 livery)
Why should this airline be added?
I’d say this airline should be added because of their colorful liveries and identity, featuring quite a few great special liveries with very recognizable liveries, and would definitely be a fun addition to see with the upcoming 737s, or even at a potential Canadian airport, if one does eventually come around.Anyways, even though this airline would very likely be seen through events or special contracts only, I still do think they’d be great to see visiting some North American airports.
Plus, this airline would bring some more 737-200s to the game… and who wouldn’t like to see some more of those?ROUTE MAP:
