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StrandedInBGM From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 298 posts, RR: 0
Posted (4 years 6 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1251 times:

I am pretty bored tonight and I have been listening to JFK ATC (The controllers are rather entertaining). I figured I would throw out some mindless discussion. I did a search and it seems that this topic has not been discussed in a while, I could be wrong.

I am intrigued by some of the callsigns I hear since they are rather creative not relying on the airline name as the callsign, but using something symbolic, so I decided to look some up.

Few of my favorites are:

Speedbird for British Airways
Springbok for South African Airways
Redwood for Virgin America
Suckling for Scot Airways
Ugly Van for Inter Island Air

What are yours?

Good flight... Great night.

It's 737s, 747s and 380s. Not 737's, 747's and 380's. Learn to use the apostrophe for crying out loud.

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Delta7004 From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 49 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (4 years 6 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1242 times:

You pointed out most of the interesting ones I can think of off the top of my head, though I have to say, Redwood is a unique one.

Acey From Canada, joined Jun 2007, 968 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (4 years 6 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1191 times:

Shamrock - Aer Lingus.

Quoting StrandedInBGM (Thread starter):
Good flight... Great night.

Kennedy Tower fan?

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

KL808 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1570 posts, RR: 3
Reply 3, posted (4 years 6 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1184 times:

I really love China Airlines call sign, DYNASTY.

Drew

AMS-LAX-MNL

Tripleboom From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 278 posts, RR: 15
Reply 4, posted (4 years 6 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1175 times:

IND based Republic uses Brickyard.. as both an aviation and automotive enthusist I appreciate the blend of the two worlds.

Mycrj17 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 269 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (4 years 6 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1165 times:

I always thought Blue Ridge for DH was good, but WaterSki for Tran States is kind of weird, but I like them both..
But I think Airtran should be PeachTree other then Citrus...

Matthew

GO CUBS GO!!!!!

StrandedInBGM From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 298 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (4 years 6 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 1138 times:

Quoting Acey (Reply 2):
Kennedy Tower fan?

Aye.

This just in... FOD on runway 22R @ Juliet

[Edited 2007-08-19 03:49:43]

It's 737s, 747s and 380s. Not 737's, 747's and 380's. Learn to use the apostrophe for crying out loud.

113312 From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 508 posts, RR: 1
Reply 7, posted (4 years 6 months 11 hours ago) and read 1027 times:

Hope you folks like FLAGSHIP for Pinnacle. This airline started out as Republic Express a/k/a Express Airlines I which later became NW Airlink. I was involved in the original certification and obtained the callsign from the FAA from the defunct Dolphin Airlines which I also had a hand in starting back in 1981.

CitrusCritter From Palau, joined May 2007, 1072 posts, RR: 3
Reply 8, posted (4 years 5 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 980 times:

Quoting Mycrj17 (Reply 5):
But I think Airtran should be PeachTree other then Citrus...

The original AirTran and the present AirTran were/are HQed in Orlando, Fla, thus the Citrus callsign. Nothing beats ValuJet's Critter call-sign though.

TLH

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