AirWillie6475 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2448 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 3 months ago) and read 4395 times:
What are the meaning of airline names such as Lufthansa, Lauda, Styrian, Quantas and other names you can think of. What are the associatoins of airline names and logos such as the bird on lufthansas tail? Any comments?
RootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4179 posts, RR: 45 Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 months ago) and read 4337 times:
Qantas>>>Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service
Lufthansa>>>Luft=Air in german Hansa=Some family that was involved in aviation.
Lufthansa owes its origins to "Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft" (renamed "Lufthansa" in 1933), which was formed from a merger between "Deutsche Aero Lloyd" (DAL) and "Junkers Luftverkehr" on January 6, 1926.
[Edited 2005-02-22 00:03:10]
Lauda>> Founded by Nikki Lauda, a former austrian F1 pilot
[Edited 2005-02-22 00:04:03]
A man without the knowledge of his past history,culture and origins is like a tree without roots
Airgeek12 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (8 years 3 months ago) and read 4298 times:
All I know is I have a friend that speaks fluid German and , according to her, in german, "luft" means air. And than, as mentioned above, "hansa" is some family.
AeroVodochody From Czech Republic, joined Feb 2005, 540 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 4248 times:
The Lufthansa thing has been discussed before, the best translation is something along the lines of United Airlines.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31115 posts, RR: 74 Reply 4, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 4231 times:
With Alitalia, there are two meanings.
A'Italia, in Italian, means "to Italy". Also, the word "ali" means wings, so ali + italia could also mean "wings of Italy". I don't know however, what the official meaning is.
SPREE34 From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 2092 posts, RR: 10 Reply 5, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 4220 times:
Lauda carries the name of it's creator.
I don't understand everything I don't know about this.
DC10Tim From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2005, 1405 posts, RR: 16 Reply 6, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 4210 times:
Yeah Lauda comes from the famous F1 driver Niki Lauda, who created Lauda air and now has Fly Niki, after a very very long story.
As for the 'Hansa' in Lufthansa, there was a thread not too long ago about this. Most Germans couldn't tell you what it means. From the responses there it losely means 'union' as in the 'Hansa' ports of Northern Germany, Hamburg etc.
ZRH From Switzerland, joined Nov 1999, 5535 posts, RR: 40 Reply 7, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4181 times:
Quoting Airgeek12 (reply 2): All I know is I have a friend that speaks fluid German and , according to her, in german, "luft" means air. And than, as mentioned above, "hansa" is some family.
"Luft" is air, that's correct. Hansa is not a family name. The "Hanse" was a commercial union of merchants in major cities in northern Germany like Hamburg, Bremen, Luebeck, Rostock and further to the east till Danzig (Poland in our days), Koenigsberg (Kalliningrad, Russia) and others = Hansestaedte (cities of the Hanse). They formed in the 14th century a formal alliance.
"Lauda" is the name of the founder of Lauda Air. This Nicki Lauda the famous formula 1 driver.
I think Styrian comes from the Steiermark, a state in Austria.
Kjet12 From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 975 posts, RR: 8 Reply 9, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 4143 times:
Delta Air Lines comes from its original route structure that was focused on the Mississippi River delta. It had, and still does have, routes all throughout the southeastern United States.
Does anyone happen to know if Varig means anything?
Airgeek12 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 4076 times:
Some dude emailed me this:
Quote: Hello,
I've read the theart on airliners.net where someone asked where the airline names are from. I'm not registert, so i write you and i hope that you put these Informations in the board.
Lufthansa: Founded an Luft Hansa. Named in Lufthansa after the second world war, when Germany was allowed to found an Airline again. "Luft" means air. and i am not sure, but in german there ist tho word Hanse, which was agroup of trading cities in the Mittle Ages. Ich think that Hansa comes from that word.
Lauda: Founded by the Formula one driver Niki Lauda and the sold to Austrian Airlines. After that Niki Lauda founded the Low cost carrier Fly Niki.
Styrian Spirit: Names after the austrian region "steiermark". I think that styrian ist the english form.
I'm sorry for my bad english, but i hope you can read it.
AirWillie6475 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2448 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 3911 times:
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Lamedianaranja From Venezuela, joined Nov 2004, 1246 posts, RR: 23 Reply 20, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 3769 times:
Quoting SPL (reply 19):
K -> Koninklijke
L -> Luchtvaart
M -> Maatschappij
Translation: something like: Royal Airline Company.
KLM in English is always translated as Royal Dutch Airlines. The RDA abbreviation is also incorporated in KLM's main computer reservation system: coRDA
AV757 From Colombia, joined Apr 2004, 646 posts, RR: 6 Reply 24, posted (8 years 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3734 times:
Avianca is the acronym of Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia, or Colombian National Airways and its logo of the Condor of the Andes, being the largest flying bird of the Americas, and according to ancient Inca tradition and beliefs, the condor is the messenger of the Gods.
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25 EL-AL: EL-AL: "EL" means like "to", and "AL" means like "above", so el al means in hebrew more or less to above.
26 NYCFlyer: anyone know the meaning or acronym behind TAP? probably something something of Portugal, but would be nice to know anyway
27 Solnabo: Hmmmm!!! Why is there always SEX when SAS coming up?? Is it b´cuz we´re sexual liberated in Scandinavia? Micke//SE
28 Focus: Arkia comes from "rakia", which is about the same as "sky" in Hebrew.
29 CroFlight: Croatia Airlines = Lines in the Air, from Croatia.... Air Adriatic = means that there is some air in the Adriatic sea Trade Air = they are buying and
31 Erikwilliam: that means, Company of aerial aviation of Rio Grande do Sul( a state in Brazil) VASP means Viação Aérea de São Paulo, the same as above but from
32 Andz: TAP is Transportadora Aérea Portuguesa, it used to say that on the old livery.
33 Havik747: TAROM - Transporturile Aeriene Române – “Romanian Air Transport” Malév Hungarian Airlines - Magyar Légiközkeledísi Vállalat – “Hungari
34 Stealthpilot: L1011Lover ---- adding to your list. PIA = Please Inform Allah AI = Allah informed (absolutely no harm intended whatsoever…..) -Nikhil
35 Asgeirs: I flew on the now defunct German carrier Aero Lloyd 5 years ago. Always wondered what the name meant. The above seems to shed some light on the matte
36 AeroVodochody: CSA=Ceske Aerolinie=Czech Airlines L1011Lover, I thought DELTA meant Dont Expect Luggage To Arrive?
37 AnsettB727: UTA Union des transports airiennes AOM Compagnie airienne d'outre mer And thanks to those who cleared up to LH debacle. A family name, puhleeeease!
38 L1011Lover: Some people think DELTA stands for: Don´t Even Let Them Apply... in reference of DL´s covservative attitude, and their assumed attitude towards gay
39 NWADC9: NWA=NorthWest Airlines=Their first route (Chicago-Minneapolis) I think. Don't know why it's Northwest. Mesaba=American Indian for “soaring eagle.”
42 F9fan: Well, Frontier Airlines is actually named for...Frontier Airlines F9Fan
43 Jetboyflyhi: MESA AIR got it's name from the Beautiful surroundings in Farmington, New Mexico. They are the MESA PLATEAU Mountain tops. MESA in Spanish means Table
44 Lekohawk: NWA - Northwest Airlines used to be called Northwest Orient (Northwest Orient Airlines?) perhaps because their route from Minneapolis took them north
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