GF-A330 From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2001, 1643 posts, RR: 3 Posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 2371 times:
Airline Acronyms
Acronym Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbering Your Memory
A Concise Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
Another Cheap Round Of Network Yawn Makers
A Capitalised Representation of Names You Memorize
Airlines
AA Abort! Abort!
Always Awful
Airbus Airlines Impose Regrettable Bull**** Upon Us
Alitalia Always Late In Transit, Always Late In Arrival
Airplane Landed In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta
A Little Italian Tit And Lotsa Italitan Ass
A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude
American A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and
Nausea
AUA Almost Unknown Airline
AWA Always Wasting Assets
BA Bloody Awful
British Apoplectic
BEA Better Eat Afterwards
BOAC Better On A Camel
Blast Off And Crash
Boeing Broken Off Engines In Numerous Gardens
BWIA Baggage Wandering In Africa
Better Walk If you're Able
Born to Wait In Airports
But Will I Arrive?
CAAC Chinese Airlines Always Cancel
Dan Air Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough
Delta Damaged Engines Limit Take-off Ability
Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta
Doesn't Even Leave The Airport
Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
Don't Even Let Them Aboard
Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly
EAA Even Apes Aviate
El Al Egyptian Louting Arab Loathing
Every Landing Always Late
Every Landing Always Lousy
Everyones Luggage Always Lost
Finnair Flies Ideally? Nah, Not Airbourne In Reality
JAL Journey Always Late
JAT Joke About Time
Liat Luggage Is Always Tardy
Lot Lots Of Trouble
Lufthansa Let Us Fiddle The Hostess And Not Say Anything
MAS May Actually Shit
Northwest Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless,
Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport
Olympic Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash
PAL Prick Always Long
Pan Am Passengers Always Need A Mortician
Pilots Are Not A Must
Poor Airline Needs Any Money
Qantas Queasy and Nauseous, Tired And Sick
Queers And Nymphomaniacs Trained As Stewards
Quick And Nasty Transportation, Australian Style
Quite A Neat Trick, Arriving Safely
Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?
Quits Air-travel, Next Time Approaches Ship
Sabena Such A Bad Experience - Never Again
SAHSA Stay At Home, Stay Alive
SAS Service After Sex
Sex And Satisfaction
Such A S***
Sia Sex In the Air
Singapore Imitates America
TACA Take Another Carrier Always
Take A Coffin Along
Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda
TAP Take A Parachute
Take Another Plane
Thy They Hate You
TWA That Was Accidental
That Was Awful
Travel With Arabs
Teeny Weeny Airlines
Try Walking Across
Try With Another
Today's Worst Airline
Tomorrow We'll Arrive
Tomorrow's Widebody Accident
Totally Wasted Airlines
United U Need Insurance That Exempts Death
Usually Not Enclined To Eliminate Disasters
USAir (used to be Allegheny Airlines):
Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality
Tom in NO From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 7194 posts, RR: 40 Reply 4, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 2301 times:
DELTA: Don't Even Leave The Airport
TACA: Take A Chance Airlines
Tom in NO (at MSY)
"The criminal ineptitude makes you furious"-Bruce Springsteen, after seeing firsthand the damage from Hurricane Katrina
MxCtrlr From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 2485 posts, RR: 40 Reply 7, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 2262 times:
PIA = Please Inform Allah
MxCtrlr
Charter Member of Freight Dogs Anonymous - O.O.T.S.K.
DAMN! This SUCKS! I just had to go to the next higher age bracket in my profile! :-(
Travatl From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 2172 posts, RR: 11 Reply 11, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 2217 times:
Delta-flyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2676 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 2197 times:
PWA - Please Wait Awhile
Allow me to add a railroad here....(I just love this one).....
PGE - Past God's Endurance (the former Pacific Great Eastern, now part of BC Rail)
Spark From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 431 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 2191 times:
Not to take the gimmes, but I am anyway.
PSA- Poor Service Always.
Hughes Air West- Hughs Air Worst,
Northwest- Northworst
The last two weren't true anagrams, but our routinely used by passengers
Seat2A From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 81 posts, RR: 2 Reply 15, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 2149 times:
Here's a few more, alphabetically:
AIR CANADA: Err Canada
AIR MALI: Air Maybe
ALLEGHENY: Agony Airlines
ALOHA: Always Leave On Hawaiian Air
BOAC: Bring Over American Currency
BWIA: Britain's Worst Investment Abroad
JAL: Jump And Live
LOT: Look Out Tower!
PAL, INC. Plane Always Late, If Not Cancelled
PSA: Passengers Scattered About (After those 2 crashes)
PWA: Pray While Aloft
TAA: Try Another Airline
Elwood64151 From United States of America, joined Feb 2002, 2477 posts, RR: 7 Reply 16, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 2103 times:
USAir - UnSafe Airline In Regression
Vanguard - Vangross (till us rampers started cleanin' 'em!)
Frontier - For Routine Our New Trips Include Excruciating Recliners
NWA - New World Anarchy
Continental (CAL) - Call Again Later
Cheers!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it in summer school.
Mandala499 From Indonesia, joined Aug 2001, 6181 posts, RR: 74 Reply 18, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 2088 times:
Some of these may offend people...
ANA = Another Nippy Airline
BA = Boring Always
BEA = Back Early Afternoon
Garuda = Good Airline Run Under Dutch Administration
Garuda = Good And RUn Down Airline
Garuda = Good Airline RUnning? Delayed Always
AW Airlines = Alert Whoop Whoop !
Indian Airlines = IA = Insurance Always
Malaysia Airlines = MAS = Mana Ada System? (Where is the System?)
QANTAS = Queer ANd Terrible Air Service
SABENA = Such A Bloody European Nasty Airline
Singapore Airlines = SQ = So Queer
TAP = Trust Another Portugues
THAI = Tai (sh1t in Indonesian language)
FBU4ever... Funny you said Salmon Always Salmon... I've had a very good salmon starter on SAS economy long haul !
Mandala499
When losing situational awareness, pray Cumulus Granitus isn't nearby !
Elwood64151 From United States of America, joined Feb 2002, 2477 posts, RR: 7 Reply 21, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 2043 times:
Forgot and new ones I thought of:
American - Any More Errors Result In Causing A Nightmare
Jet Blue - Just Enough Trouble Buddy, Lunch Upset Everyone
Jet Blue - Junk Blue
AirTran - Air Terror
AirTran - Air Training
Delta - Dump Everyone's Luggage, Trouble Again
United (UAL) - United Attempt at Larceny
Frontier - Prom Trash (I've actually heard this one from USAir ramp guys!)
Midwest Express - Cookie Monsters (just a nickname)
Spirit - Screwing People In Return for Icompetent Talent
MESA - Messup
America West - Unusually Blessed
Delta - Doh! Everyone Lost. Try Again.
Falcon Air - F***-Up Air
TransMeridian - Trained Simians (monkeys)
TWA - Truly Worthless Airline
Ozark - OZ Ain't Really Kansas
NWA - Not Working Anyway/Anymore
AA - Always Arrogant
Comair - Con Air
Great Lakes - Landing in all of them
ATA - Augmented T!ts and @$$holes
Midway - Midworst
Groupo TACA - Group of Tacos (NJ aircraft N239TA from Groupo TACA was called "Taco" by the ground crews)
Western Pacific - Western Pathetic
(Some TSA guys helped me with the following)
Transportation Security Agency (TSA) - Truly Sh**ty Agency
TSA - Trouble Starts Anyway
TSA - Trainees Search Anyone
TSA - Travelers Searched Anally
TSA - Transportation Slowed Again
TSA - Totally Screwed Again
Quantas - QUeens Ass - Not As Tight AS expected
Ozark - Krazo
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it in summer school.
Mcdougald From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (10 years 6 months 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1984 times:
For any history buffs who've heard of the Profumo/Christine Keeler scandal:
BOAC -- Bend Over Again, Christine
25 Fanofjets: Here's another for TACA Tenemos Accidente Cada Ano (We have an accident every year.)
26 AS_GSC: Here's another TSA acronym.... Thousands Standing Around
27 Mandala499: I forgot this one... Ryanair = FR = FRaud Air Mandala499
28 OzarkD9S: a few years ago after several landing related blowouts: Tires Without Air (TWA) Trans Texas: Tree Tops Airways, Try Try Again Ozark: Krazo, Slozark Al
29 Baldguy: Air Canada's 'Hospitality' (Economy) class = Hostility Class
30 J32driver: TSA (Trans States Airlies) = Thirty Sh*tty Airplanes, Titanic Sinks Again ACA = Another Crappy Airline
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