Airline Acronyms

captain_jeeves · Post by **captain_jeeves** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:09 am

Airline Acronyms

Anyone have some to add...

AA (American Airlines)
Always Awful

Aer Lingus (Irish Airlines)
Arousing Erotic Randy Ladies In Nice Green Uniform Suits.

Air Canada
Air Can’t Uh Dah

Air India
An Interesting Ride, I'll Not Do It Again

Air Malta
An Irritating Ride. Most Annoying. Late Takeoff Also

Alaska (Alaska Airlines)
Another Late Arrival, Start Kissing Ass

Alitalia (Italian Airlines)
Always Late In Transit, Always Late In Arrival
Airplane Landed In Tokyo And luggage In Athens
Little Italian Tit And Lotsa Italian Ass
A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude

American (AA)
A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now

BA (British Airways)
Bloody Awful

BEA
Better Eat Afterwards

BOAC
Bend Over And Cough
Better On A Camel

BWIA (British West Indies Airlines)
Baggage Wandering In Africa
Better Walk If you're Able
But Will I Arrive?

CAAC (China Airlines)
China Airlines Always Crashes
Chinese Airlines Always Cancel

Canada 3000
Cattlecar 3000

Delta (Delta Airlines)
Don't Ever Land There Again
Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta
Doesn't Even Leave The Airport
Doesn't Everybody Like This Airline?
Don't Even Let Them Aboard

El Al (Israel International Airlines)
Every Landing Always Late
Every Landing Always Lousy
Everyone’s Luggage Always Lost

Emirates
English Managed, Indian Run, A Thousand Ex-pats Suffering

Gulf Air
Get Used to Late Flights - Aircraft In Repair

JAL (Japan Airlines)
Journey Always Late

JMC (JMC Airlines - UK)
Just More Crap

KLM (Dutch International Airline)
Kamikaze Loving Maniacs

LIAT (West Indies Airline)
Lost in-between Antigua, Trinidad
Leave island any time
Late If At All

Lot (Polish Airlines)
Lots Of Trouble

Northwest
Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport

Olympic (Greek International Airline)
Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash

PAL
Plane Always Late

Pan Am
Passengers Always Need A Mortician

PIA (Pakistan International Airline)
Please Inform Allah

PWA
Please Wait Awhile

QANTAS (Australian Airline)
Quick And Nasty Transportation, Australian Style

Ryanair (Very profitable and successful European Airline)
Running Your Ailing National Airline Into Receivership

Sabena
Such A Bad Experience - Never Again

SAS (Scandinavian Airline Service)
Same As Sabena

Swissair
Sexy Women In Swissair Service Are Incredibly Rare

TAA
Try Another Airline

TACA (South American Airline)
Take A Chance Airways
Take A Coffin Along

TANGO (Air Canada)
That’s All, Now Get Off

TAP
Take A Parachute
Take Another Plane

TNT (TNT Express Air Freight)
Tomorrow Not Tonight

TWA (Trans World Airlines)
Theives, Whores & Alcoholics

United (United Airlines)
U Need Insurance That Exempts Death

USAir
Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality (used to be Allegheny Airlines)

Westjet
We Expect Some Turbulence, Joyously Exterminating TANGO

Worldways (Former Canadian Airline)
We Organize Real Long Delays, Wait And You’ll See

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:13 am

SAHSA
Stay at Home. Stay alive

2low · Post by **2low** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:47 am

YHWTMTOYHB

You have WAY too much time on your hands buddy.

aileron · Post by **aileron** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:43 am

We also called Gulf Air: Goof Air

invertedattitude · Post by **invertedattitude** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:51 pm

I heard lots of guys calling CanJet

CramJet

C-FABH · Post by **C-FABH** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:42 am

GTAA.... Go To Another Airport

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:36 pm

TWA (transvest) The Worst Airline

I remember back in the days of Air BC... when they dunked that twin otter.. becamse Scare BC

SierraPoppa · Post by **SierraPoppa** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:52 pm

PWA: Pray While Aloft, Piggly Wiggly or Peter's Western Airline (for those who don't remember Peter Lougheed was premier when the province bought PWA)

CP Air: Crash and Panic

Air Canada: Air Cabbage, also sometimes just called Aeroflot

Redwine · Post by **Redwine** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:29 pm

Spyjet
Air Canabis/Mapleflot
Sex After Service
Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again

sierra yankee · Post by **sierra yankee** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:55 pm

I'm surprised nobody's posted Transat -> "Trashcan" yet; maybe that's just an ATC thing? We never use "Transat" except on frequency.

Back in the day, some controllers supposedly convinced a new trainee that VAL = "Vaginair," and the trainee proceeded to call the flight that all the way across the sector. Apparently the pilots either didn't notice or decided not to say anything about it ...

EDIT: Oops, not acronyms ... ok ok .. funny nonetheless.

bob sacamano · Post by **bob sacamano** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:01 pm

sierra yankee wrote:I'm surprised nobody's posted Transat -> "Trashcan" yet; maybe that's just an ATC thing? We never use "Transat" except on frequency.

You just beat me to it.

PIA (pakistan)

-- Perhaps I Arrive

JetsGO

-- JetsGOne

-- JetsNoGo

....... · Post by **.......** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:03 pm

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FL_CH · Post by **FL_CH** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 7:22 am

that's a negative:

"ICAO Callsign: Transat
IATA Code: TS
ICAO Code: TSC
Known As: Air Transat
Full Name: Air Transat
Country: Canada
Web Site: http://www.airtransat.com/ "

SierraPoppa · Post by **SierraPoppa** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:17 pm

FL_CH wrote:that's a negative:

"ICAO Callsign: Transat

Correctomundo and here's the full list of call signs according to Transport Canada latest update April 28, 2005

http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/report/TP143 ... 32005E.htm

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:03 pm

We used to call Skyward's medevac division Sky(S)care

And FSKA was the "shitty king air", just ask the engineers overhauling it in YXJ how much fun they're having chasing the snags left behind by skyscare.

Northern Dene WAS Cowboy Air

....... · Post by **.......** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:10 pm

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imarai · Post by **imarai** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:23 pm

Air West = Scare Best.

Pacific Western = Pathetic Western "Hello, Pathetic Western, can I help it".

PWA = Please Wait A while.

SAS = Sex And Satisfaction.

If Alitalia merged with El Al, what would it be called? Well I'll tell ya..

Gramps · Post by **Gramps** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:19 pm

B.O.A.C. = Bring Over American Cash
PWA = Panic While Airborne

Speedbird Junior · Post by **Speedbird Junior** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:03 pm

Some variations on a theme here, but some original ones:

B.A Bloody Awful (think that's been done)

BOAC Boys Over Seas After Crumpet (work out crumpet!?)

SAS Sex And Sandwiches

SABENA (old Belgium carrier) Such A Bad Experience Never Again

QANTAS Queens And Nancies Trained as Stewards

sinjin · Post by **sinjin** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:21 pm

Air Canada= Mapleflot

invertedattitude · Post by **invertedattitude** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:45 pm

SkyLounger wrote:
FL_CH wrote:that's a negative:

"ICAO Callsign: Transat
IATA Code: TS
ICAO Code: TSC
Known As: Air Transat
Full Name: Air Transat
Country: Canada
Web Site: http://www.airtransat.com/ "
Hmmmmmmm.....

If it is, then it's news to me and all my colleagues... we we're always told to use the full ''Air Transat'' callsign!

I'll have to inquire with the higher powers...

Do you work for Air Transat? Because most pilots I hear use "Transat"

....... · Post by **.......** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:00 pm

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Panama Jack · Post by **Panama Jack** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:32 am

Another one for TACA (which is a Central American, not a South American airline):

Tome Alcohol Cuando Abordo

Lufthansa:

Luftwaffe

DLT (German Regional Airline-- part of Lufthansa)

Dis ist your Last Trip!

BOAC:

British Overseas Air Catastrophies
Bloody Old and Careless

Etihad:

Emptyhad

DA900 · Post by **DA900** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:34 pm

BWIA
British Worst Investment Alltime

SierraPoppa · Post by **SierraPoppa** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:23 am

SkyLounger wrote:
invertedattitude wrote:Do you work for Air Transat? Because most pilots I hear use "Transat"

Yes. Not supposed to (but it might happen)!

I don't know what you are on about.

The OFFICIAL ICAO call sign for Air Transat is just plain TRANSAT.

Check it out here: http://www.tc.gc.ca/pol/en/report/TP143 ... 32005E.htm