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ACdreamliner From United Kingdom, joined May 2005, 515 posts, RR: 1
Posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 4442 times:

Just a fun topic about airline call signs, the ones you like, the ones you'd change etc...

My Fav as its most appropraite and basically just useful is:

BMIbaby's : 'Baby' call sign. Short simple to the point.

The old ones bore me, such as Air Canada etc (as much as i love the airline)...

Where are you going?

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N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79
Reply 1, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 4432 times:

My favorite of all time is National's (the LAS one) "Red Rock"

I also like Eagle Flight (American Eagle), Cactus (America West) and Citrus (AirTran)

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OD720 From Lebanon, joined Feb 2003, 1917 posts, RR: 36
Reply 2, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4361 times:

How about Cederjet for MEA? It's a good one.

Wjcandee From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 4553 posts, RR: 17
Reply 3, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4359 times:

"Waterski" - Trans States
"Candler" - ASA

I like these because the reasons for the name aren't entirely intuitive. I know the reasons, as I assume the regular a.netters do.

BBJII From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2005, 850 posts, RR: 4
Reply 4, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 4354 times:

Good ones for me are:

ScotAirways "Suckling" Say it with a cold/flu....sounds rude !!! Smile

Titan Airways "Zap" Sounds like a Batman Cartoon. Smile

But my favourite is:

VLM Airlines "Rubens" The artsist was born in VLM's Home town...very distinctive and sounds like nothing else......

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LongbowPilot From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 577 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 4327 times:

I'm old fashioned. My favorite is the current unit I'm working with.

SHOCK

SA7700 From South Africa, joined Dec 2003, 2916 posts, RR: 20
Reply 6, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 4315 times:

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There is nothing like it when you hear JFK ATC talking to Springbok Heavy, SA, on approach to JFK.

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ZKSUJ From New Zealand, joined May 2004, 6936 posts, RR: 10
Reply 7, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4291 times:

Pacific Blue use the callsign 'BlueBird', and who can forget Speedbird?

FBU 4EVER! From Norway, joined Jan 2001, 998 posts, RR: 7
Reply 8, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4291 times:

Doesn't TNT use the callsign "Dynamite"?

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Zeekiel From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4286 times:

For me it's got to be:

"Speedbird" - BA
"Springbok" - SA (just waiting until NZ changes theirs to "All Black")
"Cactus" - HP

Good stuff.

Cheers

Zeekiel

Illusion From Turkey, joined Jun 2005, 49 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4293 times:

Turkish Charter and Cargo Airline MNG Airlines : ' BlackSea '

And I think Air Holland used 'Orange' back when they were flying.... The others I remember already posted...

Cheers! Smile

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BDKLEZ From Ireland, joined Jun 2005, 1735 posts, RR: 16
Reply 11, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4270 times:

Aer Lingus = "Shamrock"

God bless Ireland!

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Flying Belgian From Belgium, joined Jun 2001, 2359 posts, RR: 10
Reply 12, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 4262 times:

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The strangest one for me: "Dinasty" for China Airlines.

FB.

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Cubsrule From United States of America, joined May 2004, 21229 posts, RR: 19
Reply 13, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 4208 times:

Is DH still Blue Ridge??

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Jetset7E7 From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2004, 1082 posts, RR: 17
Reply 14, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 4199 times:

These few make me laugh:
Air Southwest WOW - Swallow
Pegasus Airlines - SunTurk
Hello/BritishJet - FlyHello - once I heard MAN ATC use FlyHotel

FlyJet - Envoy - why? I remember seeing it being used by another carrier

Quoting Cubsrule (Reply 13):
Is DH still Blue Ridge??

Atlantic Coast Airlines - Callsign: "BlueRidge"

Mark

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MichaelJP From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 179 posts, RR: 0
Reply 15, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 4133 times:

I'm fairly sure that the UAE Royal Family's callsign for them is Amiri. The Sultain of Brunei also has a funny callsign if I remember correctly.

Mike

Richardnhsv From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 473 posts, RR: 2
Reply 16, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 4110 times:

PSA

"Bluestreak"

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Glom From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 2803 posts, RR: 10
Reply 17, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 4101 times:

Quoting Zeekiel (Reply 9):
For me it's got to be:

"Speedbird" - BA
"Springbok" - SA (just waiting until NZ changes theirs to "All Black")
"Cactus" - HP

Yeah, they're good. The callsign Speedbird One kind of says it all really. If only there was another SST.

The others all need to change theirs to something more creative.
American => Cowboy (because their hub is DFW)
Qantas => Zippy (the bush kangaroo)
Ryanair => Freebie
Easy => Slapper
Virgin => Bling bling

Pilottim747 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1607 posts, RR: 5
Reply 18, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 4027 times:

Quoting Cubsrule (Reply 13):
Is DH still Blue Ridge??

Atlantic Coast Airlines changed its three-letter identifier and callsign with the FAA when it changed to Independence Air. It's three-letter code is now IDE and its callsign is Independence Air.

pilottim747

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Ktachiya From Japan, joined Sep 2004, 1729 posts, RR: 2
Reply 19, posted (7 years 6 months 3 weeks 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3941 times:

Quoting Flying Belgian (Reply 12):
Dinasty

Dynasty right? This is the ones that I like too. It sounds so....... traditional when they say Dynasty xxx taxi to rwy..

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