09.08.2021 - 10:27 UTC
OWG (Montréal Trudeau) has taken delivery of its first B737-800 as it prepares for the reopening of international travel from Canada to leisure destinations in the Caribbean.
The airline did not disclose the identity of the aircraft. However, it will most likely be C-FMBO (msn 30631), a 19.6-year-old jet added by OWG's parent company Nolinor Aviation (N5, Montréal Trudeau) in early July 2021. The aircraft remains in storage at Marana and will enter service in 2022, post cabin modifications and repainting. It will be configured in a single-class layout for up to 189 passengers.
The aircraft was briefly registered to, but never operated by, Chrono Jet (MBK, Québec). Other operators include Air Transat and Shanghai Airlines, the ch-aviation fleets history module shows.
"Our team has spent the last year preparing and we can't wait to get back to flying when sanitary conditions allow,” President of Nolinor Aviation Marco Prud'Homme said.
OWG, the leisure division of Nolinor Aviation with no separate AOC, launched...
05.08.2021 - 18:06 UTC
Quebec-based OWG (Montréal Trudeau) has been granted licenses to operate large gauge scheduled international services between Canada and the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Jamaica, and the United States.
This is according to four separate regulatory notices published by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) on July 23, 2021.
The CTA on July 8, 2020, already granted OWG – a subsidiary of Nolinor Aviation (N5, Montréal Trudeau) – permission to operate international schedules to Cuba.
OWG president Marco Prud'Homme told Pax Editions the carrier would announce its planned services for each of the destinations in due course.
OWG (which stands for “Off We Go”) currently has two B737-400s in operation, with a third of the type to be delivered in December, Prud'Homme said.
As previously reported, launched its first weekly international schedule from Toronto Pearson to Santa Clara de Cuba in Cuba on December 18, 2020, on behalf of the Hola Sun Holidays tour operator, using one of its two B737-400s, C-GGWX (msn 24804). The second...
15.07.2021 - 11:58 UTC
Nolinor Aviation (N5, Montréal Trudeau) has taken over its first B737NG, specifically a B737-800 that was previously registered to, but never operated by, Chrono Jet (MBK, Québec).
C-FMBO (msn 30631) was registered by Chrono Jet in April 2021 as its first B737NG. The 19.6-year-old aircraft, previously operated by Air Transat and owned by Carlyle Aviation Partners, was never ferried out of storage at Marana and remains in Arizona. On July 6, 2021, the aircraft was deregistered by Chrono Jet and subsequently registered, under the same marks, by Nolinor Aviation.
Nolinor declined to comment on its plans for the type when contacted by ch-aviation.
According to the ch-aviation fleets advanced module, Nolinor Aviation operates two B737-200s, six B737-200(C)s, one B737-200(QC), one B737-300(QC), and two B737-400s. The -400s operate under the OWG brand, launched in 2020 as Nolinor's new division for leisure operations mainly to the Caribbean.
06.01.2021 - 08:54 UTC
OWG (Montréal Trudeau) commenced international operations to the Caribbean, its core business, on December 18, 2020.
The virtual carrier, a division of Canadian domestic cargo and passenger specialist Nolinor Aviation (N5, Montréal Trudeau), operated its first international flight on behalf of the Hola Sun Holidays tour operator from Toronto Pearson to Santa Clara de Cuba on Cuba using one of its two active B737-400s, C-GGWX (msn 24804). OWG currently plies the route weekly, according to Flightradar24 ADS-B data.
OWG predominantly uses the two Boeing narrowbodies, of which the second was inducted in mid-December, for domestic charters within Canada. While it eventually plans to focus on services from Canada to leisure destinations in Central America and the Caribbean, existing travel restrictions have limited demand for such flights.
The start-up initially hoped to launch services to Cuba on November 1, 2020. Its domestic charters began on October 20.
