Wunala From Australia, joined Mar 2005, 939 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (8 years 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 3143 times:
Quoting Dtwclipper (Reply 4): Wunala
I bet when you saw the title of this thread you and the rest of your country men, were getting your bashing noodles set for me!
Levg79 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 989 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 3089 times:
The funny thing that I was on hold with AA reservation system and the recording said referred to their partner airlines, including qUantas. I think One World members should do a better job in learning each other names. After all, it's just so many of them.
A mile of runway takes you to the world. A mile of highway takes you a mile.
CitationJet From United States of America, joined Mar 2003, 2235 posts, RR: 3 Reply 12, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 2833 times:
I just did a search for Quantas on ebay under Collectibles > Transportation > Aviation > Airlines....
There were 101 items listed under "Qantas" and 10 items listed under "Quantas".
NWADC9 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4857 posts, RR: 10 Reply 13, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2779 times:
StealthZ From Australia, joined Feb 2005, 5430 posts, RR: 49 Reply 14, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2759 times:
Quote Lveg79.."The funny thing that I was on hold with AA reservation system and the recording said referred to their partner airlines, including qUantas"
If you were on hold, assuming on the Telephone, how do you know how they spelt it??
Just curious
Chris
If your camera sends text messages, that could explain why your photos are rubbish!
OzLAME From Australia, joined Feb 2005, 338 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 2755 times:
Quoting Levg79 (Reply 7): recording said referred to their partner airlines, including qUantas.
If you are pronouncing it, it is "kwantas". No-one to my knowledge pronounces it as "kantas", maybe people from Qatar do but I've never met anyone from there.
Monty Python's Flying Circus has nothing to do with aviation, except perhaps for Management personnel.
Wukka From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1013 posts, RR: 17 Reply 17, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2551 times:
Quoting Sydscott (Reply 16): The American accent adds the U into the name when it's spoken on the AA reservations system.
"American" accent? Do any other speakers of the English language use a "Q" without a "U" in everyday spelling? Dialect is non-sequitur in this case. We Americans were handed down this particular rule of spelling and pronunciation from merry olde England, ya'll.
OzLAME From Australia, joined Feb 2005, 338 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2540 times:
Quoting Wukka (Reply 17): American" accent? Do any other speakers of the English language use a "Q" without a "U" in everyday spelling? Dialect is non-sequitur in this case. We Americans were handed down this particular rule of spelling and pronunciation from merry olde England, ya'll.
Ya'll?
As has been said many times before, QANTAS is an acronym, like BOAC or ETOPS or EFIS or EICAM or EICAS....
Monty Python's Flying Circus has nothing to do with aviation, except perhaps for Management personnel.
Sydscott From Australia, joined Oct 2003, 2375 posts, RR: 18 Reply 19, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2523 times:
Quoting Wukka (Reply 17): American" accent? Do any other speakers of the English language use a "Q" without a "U" in everyday spelling? Dialect is non-sequitur in this case.
All I can say is ring 011 61 13 13 13 and hear the lady pronounce it Kwantas. Then call AA and tell me the difference. LOL You may not appreciate the subtle difference in the Accents.
Seamefly From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 308 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 2481 times:
Backfire From Germany, joined Oct 2006, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (7 years 12 months 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2393 times:
Shame people can't be as picky about:
- the incorrect use of "wrong" in the thread opener
- the incorrect use of the apostrophe in the first reply
- the incorrect use of the apostrophe in the third reply
25 YukonTrader: Being a non-native English speaker, I've learned from school 'to spell sth wrongly' -or- 'to spell sth the wrong way'. Wrong is an adjective, while y
26 Sacflyer: Actually, the use of the adjective is acceptable here, such as, 'He painted the house blue.' Are you saying it should be, 'He painted the house bluel
27 YukonTrader: Hi Sacflyer Agreeably, language is evolving - some even say eroding - and you are perfectly right in telling me that it is acceptable (and increasingl
28 Backfire: Personally I think you're cheating - you're attempting to use the adjective 'blue', which can only apply to the house, to modify the verb 'painted'.
29 UK_Dispatcher: If you mis-spelled www.flybmi.com as www.flibmi.com, it took you to a site set up by an irate bmibaby passenger, where you could buy 'bmibaby lied to
30 DeltAirlines: Speaking of that, I had to e-mail the United Premier desk asking for a new card. At the end, the CSA wrote something akin to "Thank you for flying on
31 Sacflyer: That was the point of my example. I didn't want any confusion between an adverb form and an adjective form. 'Wrong' however does have both an adjecti
33 UAL747: I have to say that I had a dream about this discussion last night. I dreamed that I was sitting at LAX and a QANTAS 744 was taxiing about, when it pas
34 Ready4Pushback: This is not an "airliner thing" - most companies also reserve the internet domains that sound like their name (or are a common mis-spelling of their n
35 A3xx900: Errrm, not quite. Hapag Lloyd (hapaglloyd.de) is NOT the airline. It's a shipping company. The airline would be Hapag Lloyd Flug (hence the airline c
36 Andz: Close...they are all acronyms except BOAC.
37 MD11junkie: What do you mean? British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Cheers! Gastón - The MD-11 Junkie
38 Dtwclipper: None of them are. DIVA is an acronym (Department for the Invention and Verification of Acronyms). ac·ro·nym n. A word formed from the initial lette
39 Andz: an acronym is a word formed from the first letters of a name, but it must form a word, BOAC is pronounced B O A C.... therefore not a word, but an abb
40 Dtwclipper: Well, we always said BOWACK...but bever TWAAA
41 FriendlySkies: Couldn't UA theoretically sue AA for using a trademark of UAL Corp.? Or whoever owns that URL...
42 Sacflyer: I don't think so. First, it's not a trademark. Second, UAL has no claim to that URL. Third, UAL advertises a different URL for their customers. AA is
43 ExFATboy: I don't believe "UAL" is actually a trademark, just an abbreviation. It also used to be UAL's ticker on the NYSE. If UAL didn't register "flyual.com",
44 OzLAME: QANTAS "kwantas" BOAC "bowack" ETOPS "ee-tops" EFIS "ee-fis" EICAM "eye-cam" EICAS "eye-cas" All acronyms, as is RADAR (RAdio Detection And Ranging),
45 StealthZ: Never ever heard that before... had heard "Better On A Camel" though. Rgds C
46 Ikramerica: AUDI (Auto Union Deutschland Ingolstadt), SAAB (Svenska Aeroplan AB)
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