SFO
We arrived at SFO about two and a half hours before our flight, not sure whether to expect epic lines (like our Turkish flight last year and like what you might get when you're paying next to nothing) or a well-managed situation with some energy around the inaugural nature of the flight.
What we found was definitely the latter; all ten-plus of the allotted check-in desks were staffed and two more ushers were super friendly in showing people around and handing out bag tags.
The queue was maybe ten minutes, and we chatted up the couple in front of us on their way to France. Looks like there were about half a dozen employees in from the home base in Iceland for this inaugural flight.
After our careful weighing of every single item we brought, the contract agent who checked us in took a brief glance at our carry-ons and decided they were clearly small enough. Oh well.
But so far so good: WOW seems like their target is to be a low-cost carrier but not be jerks about it. I didn't see anybody crying at the neighboring check-in desks, or anybody getting charged a surprise fee out of nowhere, or anything like that.
One surprise on our boarding passes was the gate assignment: G92, right in the middle of the otherwise Star Alliance-only portion of the international terminal. This quickly scuttled our plan to brave the Air France/KLM lounge, the only priority pass lounge in the airport, but all was not lost...
