Capt.Fantastic From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 599 posts, RR: 0 Posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 4558 times:
Below is a list derived from on my own analysis of a variety of variables. I hope to expand this list and develop a more concrete analysis. If you have comments, please share.
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BEST AIRLINE NAMES
Aer Lingus
Alitalia
Aloha
Cathay Pacific
Frontier
Jet Blue
Mexicana
Olympic
Pan Am
Panorama Blue
Qantas
Sabena
Song
Virgin Atlantic
WORST AIRLINE NAMES
ComAir
EasyJet
Hooters Air
North Central
Ted (by United)
Value Jet
FlyHoss From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 598 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 4536 times:
U Land (Taiwan)(MD-80s) made me think that the "no frills" mentality had gone too far.
Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 18610 posts, RR: 59 Reply 2, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 4501 times:
Virgin Express - has a dirty sound about it
BMI Baby
Northwest Orient
NWA (f* the police!)
Swissair
Crossair
Ansett
flyBE
Of all the things to worry about... the Wookie has no pants.
Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 18610 posts, RR: 59 Reply 5, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 4453 times:
And Hooters Air doesn't have meaning?
Of all the things to worry about... the Wookie has no pants.
Jamake1 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 564 posts, RR: 5 Reply 7, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4386 times:
My picks...
BEST AIRLINE NAME
Aloha
Asiana
Avianca
BMI British Midland
Braniff International
British European
Canadian Pacific
Cathay Pacific
Continental Micronesia
Garuda Indonesia
Hawaiian
Jet Blue
Pacific Southwest Airlines
Pan American
Sri Lankan
Trans World Airlines
USAir
Virgin Atlantic Airways (it should've stopped there)
World Airways
WORST AIRLINE NAME
Aeroflot
Aer Lingus
Air Tran
Allegheny
American Trans Air
BMI Baby
Continental Lite
Easy Jet
Haap LLoyd
Hooters Air
Lufthansa
People Express
Song
Ted
Value Jet
It isn't very original once you know what it means in Irish (Gaelic) ....just means Air Fleet !!!!!
Plus I don't know why all these airlines now have this BLUE in their airline names. Same with those caled flyxx. sure an airline will soon be called FLYCHEAP
A man without the knowledge of his past history,culture and origins is like a tree without roots
Indy From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 4033 posts, RR: 12 Reply 10, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4344 times:
Aloha73G From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2140 posts, RR: 6 Reply 11, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4332 times:
Aloha is great...so so many good slogans referencing the name have been used:
"The Spirit Moves Us"
"Where the Spirit of Aloha Flies Higher"
"Your Spirit. Your Airline."
Aloha!
Aloha Airlines - The Spirit Moves Us. Gone but NEVER Forgotten. Aloha, A Hui Hou!
Jamake1 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 564 posts, RR: 5 Reply 13, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4313 times:
Zippyjet From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 2699 posts, RR: 14 Reply 14, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 4297 times:
Zippyjet's picks fictitious airlines used in the movies and TV. Best
Ikramerica From United States of America, joined May 2005, 18610 posts, RR: 59 Reply 15, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 4290 times:
Jamake1 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 564 posts, RR: 5 Reply 16, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 4272 times:
I would love to see America West and USAirways rebranded as USAir.
It's a very crisp, clean name. Fresh, yet casually elegant.
A reputable design and branding firm could do wonders for its image.
ODAFZ From Greece, joined Jul 2004, 205 posts, RR: 2 Reply 18, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 4230 times:
Worst names
Goodjet (Sweden)
Jet Magic (Ireland)
Baboo Airlines (Swiss)
Darwin Airlines (Swiss)
Air Italica (Italy)
GO (UK)
Greece Airways
Odette Airways (Swiss)
EL AL
SONG
TED
JAZZ
TANGO
ZIP
CANJET
BASIQ AIR
DUO
FEDERICO II airways
Intensive
AXON AIRLINES
ETIHAD Airways
MENAJET
AIR ONE
CROSSAIR
GOOD NAMES
ALITALIA
LUFTHANSA
MALEV
FINNAIR
VARIG
LAN CHILE
YEMENIA
MEXICANA
SABENA
PAN AMERICAN
OLYMPIC AIRLINES
AEGEAN AIRLINES
DELTA
Eilennaei From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 21, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 4159 times:
I wonder why no mention has been made of the common Latinate name type Aero XXXX? There's even one 'proper' "Aero Airlines", an Estonian subdivision of Finnair, recycling the old grandfathered Finnair name 'Aero' they'd kept frozen.
YukonTrader From Switzerland, joined May 2005, 207 posts, RR: 8 Reply 24, posted (4 years 8 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4008 times:
Hi
Quoting Justinpower (Reply 23): Wasn't there a mid 90s Russian airline called Touch and Go? I don't know what happened to them...
Touch and Go got rebranded into Conveyor Airlines (no joking - albeit cyrillic spelling was 'Konveyer' as their 'C' is of course our 'S'). Not that it would have been that much better as a name... Tu-154M RA-85756 flew as such in Summer 1996 before going on to Continental Airways and finally Dagestan Airlines.
In the past, the worst name in terms of marketing that springs to my mind was Goa Way in India (Fokker 27s). I wonder why nobody realised the obvious implication to any customer coming through the door or calling. "Hi, welcome, go away..."
From a recent visit in Singapore: One of the best chosen recent airline names must be Tiger Air (A320s). Sitting in the famous observation lounge at Changi 1 inbetween flights, I observed families with children coming up the elevator in about 30 second intervalls. Immediate reaction in every single case: "Oh mommy/papa, look. Tiger Air, there's Tiger Air!" and off they went like little rockets. Nothing else counted. Nothing, not even the Jumbo Jet at the gate next door...
Cheers, Lukas
25 Fbgdavidson: Well if you pronounce it as "Poo-kett" it should be a little less wrong
26 IMatAMS: It probably touched the market and then went... for some reason having having an ocean in an airline name makes it seem kind of classy to me: Virgin
29 DeltaWings: The worst is: ISRAIR Just try to pronounce that-its horrible. ~DeltaWings
30 TBCITDG: No offence to anyone but the worst names in my mind are, Qantas(misspelled soooo many time sand cannot relate it to Australia at first contact) Varig
31 JAGflyer: WORST NAME EVER: DrukAir (sounds like Drunk Air)
32 KC135TopBoom: The worst; AA US UA B6 NW The best; DL TZ CO WN
33 ExFATboy: For bad names, here's a few awards: The "We Didn't Consider What It Would Sound Like In English" Award" Phuket Air Wizz Air SCAT Airlines (a three-way
34 Sabena332: I hate names such as: Wizz Air Song Tango Jazz Zip Ted BMIbaby but also the new TUI airlines names: Hapagfly Thomsonfly Corsfly Patrick
35 B742: Worst Names: Wizz Tango Bmi Baby Thomsonfly MyTravel Best Names: Thai Airways British Airways United Airlines Lauda Emirates Gulf Air Finnair American
36 Timboflier215: the best names are the ones that sound like theyve been around forever, and will stick around forever (even if its an illusion!), ie. Virgin Atlantic,
37 Airlinerfreak: Pan Am..............best name of all time
38 Amy: I'd like to meet the guy who came up with Air Luxor's IATA code... ...L8.
39 RootsAir: Inm many places the PH is pronounced F like the Philippines ....so Phuket air equals Fucketair or simpy FuckIt air
40 Wassch71: If you speak French: Conair, a defunct Danish charter airline... Wassch71
41 WorldXplorer: Worst: - Lauda Air - Wizz Air - bmibaby - Hello Best: - Cathay Pacific - Pan Am - Trans World Airlines - World Airways - Brittannia WorldXplorer
42 Crox1: Just add a question mark and a no frills airline turns into a no passenger airline. Sounds like a pretty s****y airline to me. The best Airline name
43 HorizonGirl: I never looked at it that way before! LMAO I agree. Who is Ted? Devon
44 N200WN: AirTran - Sounds like a Vietnamese airline. Needs a better name for such a good airline. Continental - I read that it translates well into so many lan
45 Vatveng: It's better than the previous name... At least when VJ bought out FL and kept the AirTran name, they cleaned up the logo. View Large View MediumPhoto
46 ACdreamliner: BMI Baby. Says it all, the smaller, younger less classy version of its parent company. I also liked JetsGo too before they became JetsGone
47 EDDM: Quite the opposite. Sounds great for a German speaker IMHO. Plus you gotta love the conditions they operate in.
49 SA006: I can't beleive no one has mentioned South African LCC 1Time! Their callsign (God help us) is "Next Time". You fly us 1Time then next time proceed on
50 ACdreamliner: actually, its written perfectly in caps. BMI (same as the parent airline) Baby BMIBaby... like easyJet, or RyanAir etc. as for being cutsie, i think
51 PITA333: Oceanic is used for a fictitious airline name so much, but i just love it! I wish a real airline would be named it.
52 ExFATboy: Nope, it's in lowercase - "bmibaby" - everywhere on their website. Even if it's the first world in the sentence. For example, take a look at their FA
53 Garri767: i dont really think so, it sounds evil lol
54 Aa757first: Best: Trans World Airlines (sounds classy, you know what they are about) Air France (just has a nice ring to it) Song (simple and clean) ValuJet (once
55 AirWillie6475: MESA airlines To me this sounds like a struggling air charter company that has a few old turbopops with no maintenance. It doesn't sound like a top U.
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