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Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:31 pm

We've all heard Northworst, and US Scareways. Maybe even Delta - Doesn't Ever Leave the TerminAL.
What other ones are out there?
 
JAFA
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:38 pm

DELTA- delayed enroute leaving to atlanta
 
ConcordeLoss
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:00 pm

WN = World Nuts

Thanks
 
smcmac32msn
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:08 pm

How bout Phuket or Suckling Airways?
 
yanksn4
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:12 pm

What about Crazy Clown Airways? Big grin
 
707lvr
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:29 pm

Then there's WIZZ ...
 
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:34 pm

A

ACI
Always Crashing In flames
Air Crash International

Aermediterranea
Aermediterroranea

Aeroflot
the bus
Aeroflop
Cosmoplot
Aerosplat

Aeromexico
Aerowrecksico
AeroMiedo (This means AirScare in spanish)
AeroMaybe

Aero Peru
Aero P.U.

Aero Virgin Airlines
Aero burnin' Airlines

Air BC
Air Bash & Crash
Air Burn & Crash
Scare BC

Airbus
Airbust
Scarebus

AirCal
AirCrawl
Airkill
Scare Cal

Air Cambodia
Air forbodia

Air Canada
Air Can't...uh...duh...
Trash Can

Air Florida
Air Florideath

Air France
Air Chance

Air Illinois
Air what's that noise?
Scare Illinois

AI (Air India)
Allah Informed

Air Jamaica
Air Jerks kill ya
Air Jammin'

Air Malta
Air Melt ya
Always In Repair May All Learners Take Advantage

Air Mauritius
Air Murderous

Air New England
Scare No Engines

Air New York
Air New jerk

Air New Zealand
Air No wheels land

Air Of Vermont
Air Of Vomit

Air Ontario
Scare Ontario

Air Pacific
Air Pacifwreck

Air UK
Air yuck

Air West
Air Worst
Scare Best
Scare West

Air Wisconsin
'ere We're crashin'

Air Zaire
Air scare

Alaska Coastal-Ellis
I'll ask a ghost to tell us

ALIA
Always Late In Arrival

ALITALIA
Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival
Always Late in Takeoff Always Late In Arriving
Always Late In Transit Always Late In Arrival
Airplane Landed In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta
A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude
Always Late ITALIAns
All landed in Turin, All luggage in Athens

Allegheny Airlines
Agony Airlines
Allemaybe Alligator

Allegheny Commuter
Agonizing Commuter

All Nippon Airways
All fall down Airways

SA - New Mexico">ALM
Always Late Machine

Aloha Airlines
All over Airlines

Altair Airlines
All scare Airlines

Alyemda
Airborne Lunatic YEMenites Destroying Airplanes

American Airlines
Sham-erican
Always Awful
Abort! Abort!
Always Awful
American't
A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and Nausea
Amateurs Anonymous

American Eagle
Screamin' Eagle

America West
America Worst

Ansett
Chance-it

Apache
Arizona Planes Always Crash Horribly & Explode

APSA
Angry Peruvians Smashing Airplanes

Ariana
Afghans Really Into Always Neglecting Airplanes

Arrow Air
Error Air
Harrowing Scare

Aspen Airways
Crashpen Airways

ATA
Americans Take Alternatives
Alcoholics Transporting Alcoholics
Always Tardy Airlines

ATI
Alternative: Take Iberia

AUA
Almost Unknown Airline

Austral
Argentinian Users Shun This Rotten Airline

Aviaco
Airplanes Violently In Awful Crashes Often

Avianca
Awful anca

Aviogenex
Aviogen wrecks

AWA
Always Wasting Assets



B

British Airways
Bloody Awful
British Apoplectic
British Scareways
Bogus Airline
Badly Ailing
Bully Airways
Conair
British Aircrimes
Brutish Airways

Bahamasair
By llamas air

Balair
Fallair

Balkan Bulgarian
Broken Bulgarian

Bangladesh Biman
Bangladeath flamin'

Bar Harbor
Scar Harbor

Bar Harbor Airlines
Bar Hopper Airlines

BEA
Better Eat Afterwards
Back Every Afternoon (as opposed to BOAC: Better On A Camel)

Big Sky Airlines
Big Scare Airlines

BMA
British Mangling Airplanes

BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp.)
Better On A Camel
Bloody Old and Careless
Bail Out And Crash
British Overseas Air Catastrophes
British Overdue Airways Corporation
Bring Over American Cash
Britain's Only Airborne Circus

Boeing (Not an airline, but hey)
Broken Off Engines In Numerous Gardens
Bits Of Engine In Neighbors' Garden

Bonanza Air Lines
Banana Air Lines

Bonanza
Banzai

Braathens SAFE
Braathens UNSAFE

Braniff Airlines
Brainless Airlines
Brand-F
Rainbow or Chiclet Airlines
Braniff's green 747 = Super Pickle
Braniff's orange 747 = The Great Pumpkin
Easter Egg Airlines
Pepsi Cola Airlines

British Air Ferries
British scare Ferries

British Airtours
British scaretours

Brockway Air
Shockway Air

Brymon Airways
Die mon Airways

Business Express, the Delta Connection
Businss Distress, the Delta Rejection

BWIA (British West Indies Airways)
Britain's Worst Investment Anywhere
Bound to Wait In the Airport
But Will It Arrive
Britain's Worst Investment Abroad
Baggage Wandering In Africa
Better Walk If you're Able
Born to Wait In Airports
But Will I Arrive?
Better Wish It Arrives
Best Women In Air



C

Cameroon
No room

Cameroon Airlines
Become marooned Airlines

Canadair Regional Jet (RJ)
Skidoo

Cascade
Crashcade

CAT
Crashes After Takeoff

Cathay Pacific
Crash in Pacific

CCAir
Crash & Catastrophe Air

Central Airlines
Bentral Airlines

China Airlines
China scarelines

Cochise Airlines
No peace Airlines

Comair
Kamikaze Air

Command Airways
Commando Airways

Continental
InContinental
Can't....Mental
Detrimental

CX (Cathay Pacific)
Crappay Pathetic

CA (China Airlines)
Choose Another

CAAC (Chinese Avation Airline Company)
Chinese Airline Always Canceled
China Airlines Almost (Always) Crashes

Comair
Conair

Conair
Conned air

Condor Flugdienst
Condor Flugdeath

Cordova Airlines
Cart over Airlines

CPA (Canadian Airlines International)
Can't Promise Anything
(New code CAI)
Crash And Ignite
Call Ambulance Immediately
Circle Airport Indefinitely
Cruise Above Iceland
Cancel Alaskan Itinerary
Call Attendants "Idiots"
Check All Items
Copilots Are Imbeciles
Casual Atmosphere Inside

CP Air
Crashing Planes Air

Crossair
Crashair

Cruzeiro do Sul
Crasheiro do Sul

CSA
Czechs Smashing Airplanes

Cubana
Cuburn ya
Castro Usually Boards ANother Aircraft
Crashes Usual Before Arrival At Next Airport

Cyprus Airways
Try a bus Airways



D

Dan Air
Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough

DC-10
Greasy Ten
Death Cruiser

Delta
Doesn't Ever Leave The Airport
Didn't Expect To Land There Anyway
Delta: "We love to fly and it shows"
Delta Connection: "We're Learning to Fly and it Shows"
Don't Even Leave The Airport
Don't Even Let Them Aboard
Departing Even Later Than Anticipated
Deliver Everyones Luggage To Atlanta
Deltoid (The Chicken Flight) Air Lines
Do Every Little Thing Awkwardly
Damaged Engines Limit Takeoff Ability
Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta
Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly
Melt ya
Delta Gets You Close (Parody on advertising campaign after landing at the wrong airport a few times -- "Delta Gets You There")
Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive
Do Everything Late To Annoy
Dirty Exteriors Lack Travellers' Approval
Don't Ever Land There Again

DHL
Huey, Duey, & Louie
Damaged, Hidden, or Lost

DLT
Dis ist your Last Trip (pronounce with German accent)



E

Eastern
The Wings of Man (really!)
Eastern's Always Late
Eastburn Air Lines
Every Airplane Seems To Explode & wReck Normally
The Wings of Death
Eastburn Air Lines

EastWest Airlines
LeastWorst Airlines

Easyjet
Queasyjet
Difficultjet

Ecuatoriana
Wreckuatoriana

Egypt Air
Gypped Air

El Al
Every Landing Always Late
EverLasting Always Late
Egyptian Louting Arab Loathing
Every Landing Always Lousy
Everyone's Luggage Always Lost

ETOPS (not an airline but aviation-related nonetheless)
Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim



F

FedEx
Fed up

Finnair
Flies Ideally? Nah, Not Airbourne In Reality
Finished air

First Air
First Scare
Fly First, Arrive Last

Flying Tigers
Frying Tigers

Frontier
Front Rear



G

Garuda (Indonesian carrier)
Good Airline Run Under Dutch Administration
Get Rooted
Gruesome (pronounce Gah-ROO-sum) Indonesian
Garuda Insya Allah
Good and Reliable untill delay announced

Ghana Airways
Gone Airways

Great Lakes Airlines
Great Shakes Airlines

Great Plains Airlines
Flaming Planes Airlines

Gulf Air
Gulp Air



H

Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-destroyed

Henson
Horrible Engines Never Seem to Operate Normally

Horizon
Horizontal

Hughes Airwest
Flying banana (yellow DC-9s)
Hughes Airworst
Huge Aircrash
Who's Aircraft?



I

Iberia
I'll bury ya
I Barely Even Relax In Airplanes

Icelandair
Icelandscare
Fish International (Two-letter code - FI)

Indian Airlines
Indian scarelines

Inex Adria
I wrecks Adria

Interflug
Inter puke

Intermountain
Into the mountain

Iran Air
I ran here

Iraqi Airways
I wrecked it Airways



J

JAL
Japanese Always Late
Jittery And Late

JAT (Yugoslav Airlines)
Joke About Time
Jets Always Tumbling

Jetstream Airlines
Jetscream Airlines



K

Kenya Airways
Can't ya Airways?

KLM Royal Dutch
KLM Royal Ditch
Komische Landungs Metoden (German: Funny ways of landing)
Keeps Losing Money

Korean Air Lines
Careenin' Air Lines

Kuwait Airways
You wait Airways



L

LAA
Libyan Airborne Accidents

Lake Central Airlines
Shake Central Airlines

Laker
Shaker

LAN-Chile
Lots of Airplanes Non-functioning in Chile

Linjeflyg
When we die

Loftledir
Lostledir

Long Island Airlines
Long die land Airlines

Lufthansa
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffa
Let Us Fuck The hostess As No Steward Available

LOT (Polish Airlines)
Last One There
Luggage On Tarmac
Lots of Trouble
Lands Often on Tempelhoff (somehow old nowadays)
Leave On a Train
"Look Out, Tower!"
Lots Of Troubles
Lots Of Trauma

LIAT
Leaves Island Any Time
Leaves In Another Terminal
Luggage Is Always Tardy
Lost In between Antigua and Trinidad
Luggage In Another Town
LTU
Landings Total Us

Luxair
Sucks air



M

Maersk
Many Airplanes Explode; Riders Smashed & Killed

MAS
Malaysian Airplane Smashers

Malev
Many Airplanes Leave; Everyone Vomits

Mall Airways
Sprawl Airways

Mexicana
Wrecksicana
Mexicaca (Caca is spanish for feces)

Middle East Airlines
Muddle East Airlines

Midway Airlines
Midair
Mayday Airlines

Midwest Express
Midwest Distress

Minerve
My nerves!

Mohawk
Slow hawk
Schmohawk Airlines

Monarch Airlines
Bomb ark Airlines

MSA
May Still Arrive

McDonnell Douglas
McGuzzle Does-less




N

NCA
Notify Coast guard, Alas
Numerous Catastrophes when Airborne

NorOntair
Not in air

North Central Airlines
The Blue Goose (logo)

Northeast Airlines
North least Airlines

Northwest
Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport
Northworst
Noneworse

Northwest Orient
Northwest Disorient



O

Olympic
Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash

Orion Airways
Cryin' Airways

SA - Minnesota">ONA
Often Never Arrives

Otter Air
Slaughter Air

Ozark Air Lines
"krazO" spelled backwards
Noah's ark
Oh jerk
Slowzark



P

Pilgrim Airlines
Kill grim Airlines

PNA
Planes Never Airborne

Precision Airlines
Incision Airlines

PIA
Panic In Air
Please Inform Allah
Perhaps I arrive
"Please, I ate"
Pray Inform Allah
Passenger's Illegal Abductor

PAL INC
Plane Always Late If Not Cancelled

Pan Am
Pandemonium
Plan On Arriving Nervewracked And Mad
PAinful, Nauseating And Miserable
Pan slam
Passengers Always Neglected At Mealtimes
Probably Another Night At the Moon
We have killed more people on more continents than any other airline!
Passengers Always Need A Mortician
Pilots Are Not A Must
Poor Airline Needs Any Money
Passengers Always Nervous And Mad
PAL (Philippine Airways)
Please Avoid
Philippines Always Late
Plane Always Late

PSA
People Scattered About
People Scattered All over
Perennially Slow Airlines
Please Send Ambulances
Please Stay Airborne
the cattle car
Paul's Saturday Airline

People Express
Cattle Express
Feeble Express
People Compress
People Depress
People Distress
PEOPLES' EXPRESS (pronounce in a revolutionary tone)
Red Army Express

Piedmont Airlines
Peed m' pants Airlines
Piedmonster

SA - Oklahoma">PWA
Pete's Wobbly Airline
Piddly Widdly Airline
Please Wait Awhile
Piggly Wiggly Airlines
Poor Willy Airlines
Panic West Airlines



Q

QANTAS
Queasy and Nauseous, Tired And Sick
Quite A Neat Trick, Arriving Safely
Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?
Quits Air-travel, Next Time Approaches Ship
Quit Always Neglecting The Airplane, Stupid
Qaint Arse
Quick and nasty, typical Australian service



R

Ransome Airlines
(this airline doesn't NEED a nickname)

Reeve Aleutian
Real confusion

Republic Airlines
Repulsive Airlines
Repugnant Airlines

Rocky Mountain Airways
Bloody Fountain Airways
Rocky Mountain Scareways

Reno Air
Reno Scare

Royal Airlines
Rarely organized-you're always late
Screwed Royally

Royal Air Maroc
Royal Air Shock

Royal Jordanian
Air Jordan



S

SAS
Slow And Safe
Same As Sabena
Striking Airline Systems
Silly and Stupid
Swim and Smile
Sex after service
Sex and services

Saudia
Slaughteria

Shuttle-by-United
Cattle-by-United

Sabena (Belgian carrier)
Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again
Such A Bad Experience, Never Again


Southwest
Southworst
Southwaste

SAHSA (Servicio Aero Honduras SA)
Stay At Home, Stay Alive

SIA
Singapore Imitates America

Simmons Airlines
Stupid Idiots Moving Morons Over Nothing Slowly

Skyservice
Skynervous

Skyways
Die ways

SkyWest Airlines
SkyWorst Airlines

SMB
Should've landed in Missouri, not Brazil

Sobelair
Sober air (rarely)

South Central Air
South Central Scare

Southern Airways
South burn Airways

Southwest Airlines
Southworst Airlines
Southwimps

Spantax
Spandex

Sterling Airways
Burning Airways

SWA
Should We Abort?

SWISS
So What, It's Still Swissair

Syrian Air
Serious scare



T

TAA (Trans Austraila Airlines)
Take Another Airline

TAP
Take Another Plane
Take A Parachute

TACA
Take Another Carrier Always
Take A Coffin Along
Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda
Take A Chance Airlines

Texas International Airways (Formerly Trans Texas Airways)
Try to Take an Automobile
Tree Top Airlines
Travel In Agony

TAA
Take Another Airline
Travel Ansett Always
Ta Ta's

TAAG
Targeted by Anti-Aircraft Gunners
Troubled Airplanes Always Grounded

TABA
Take A Bus Always
Taxi Along Back Alleys

TAN
TAke off? Never!

TAP
Take A Propjet
Take Another Plane
Try A Pilot
TAPs
Tamancos Aereos Portugueses
(Portuguese Flying Wooden Shoes)

TAROM
Try to Avoid this Russian-Organized Mess

TAT (Transcontinental Air Transport or Transport Aeriem Transregional)
Take A Train

TCA (Trans Canada or Trans Caribbean Airlines)
Turboprops Crashing on Arrival

TEA
Turbojets Exploding on Arrival

Texas Air
Wrecks us Air

Thai Airways
Cry Airways

SA - California">TOA
Take-Off Aborted
Taxi Off Airstrip

Tower Air
Shower Air

Transamerica
Transamericrash

Transavia Holland
Can't save ya Holland

Transbrazil
TransbraKill

TTA (Trans Texas Airways)
Texas Threat to Aviation
Tree Top Airlines
Too Tardy Airways
Tinker Toys Airways

TWA
Tramps, Whores and Alcoholics
Tacky Wacky Airlines
Teeny Weeny Airlines
Tammy Wynette Airlines
Terrible Worst Airlines
Terrorists' Wanted Airlines
Travel Without Arrival
Try Walking Again
The Worst Airline
Took Wrong Airline
Try Walking Across (transoceanic perspective)
Travel With Arabs
Terrorists With Arms
Traveling Without Air
Tiny Wings A-flappin'!!!!!
TightWad Airlines
Take Weapons Aboard
Terrorists Welcome Aboard
Terrorists Will Attack
Thousands Wandering Aimlessly
Travel With Amal
Try Waiting Awhile
That Was Accidental
Try With Another
Today's Worst Airline
Tomorrow We'll Arrive
Tomorrow's Widebody Accident
Totally Wasted Airlines
Travel With American
Travelling With Angles
Trans Witch Airlines
Time Wasting Airline
Top Whop Aboard
Trouble, Worry, and Aggravation



U

UL (The two-letter code for Air Lanka)
Usually Late

USAir
US Scare
US Prayer
US err
Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality
Useless Air
US Flare

US Airways
Useless Airways (formerly just Useless Air)
US Deathways

United
Spewnited
Untied
Usually No Idea (of) Time Estimated Departure
U Never Intended To Eat Didya
U Need Insurance That Exempts Death
Usually Not Inclined To Eliminate Disasters
Ur Not Intended To Ever Depart
U Never Intend to Expedite Delivery

UTA
Unlikely To Arrive
Unable To Ascend
Under the Atlantic



V

ValuJet
Cheap A** Airways
JunkJet
Crispy Critter

VARIG
Vomit At Regular Intervals Gracefully

VASP
Viasao Aereo Sem Preca
Airline without a time schedule (or always late) (roughly translated from Portuguese, as it does not translate exactly into English)

Vista Jet
Vista Junk



W

Western Airlines
Western's Always Late (WAL)

Western Pacific
Western Pathetic

World Airlines
We Organize Really Long Delays
 
SegmentKing
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 3:38 pm

When I worked for Air Canada, we called it "Error Canada".

Great Lakes is also called "Great mistakes"

-n
 
malb777
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Sun Jul 18, 2004 4:37 pm

Although not a funny name , VIRGIN why fly with an airline that has never been all the way
Qantas, Queer And Nice Types Air Steward ( thats why I fly them)
 
lanalemania
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:32 am

Here's another one for Air Canada:

Mapleflot
 
HlywdCatft
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Joined: Mon Jan 29, 2001 6:21 am

RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:34 am

That new airline Etihad Airlines in the Mideast...

I bet some people will start calling it Jihad Airlines
 
yhmfan
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Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:44 pm

RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 2:46 am

Ryanair......... No punch line needed.  Smile/happy/getting dizzy
 
Lono
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:02 am

Song

Same
Old
Nasty
Girls
 
XFSUgimpLB41X
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:27 am

Chautauqua-
Chicken Taco
Chihuahua
Is the lav open? Ive gotta go take a shatauqua...


Pinnacle-
Pinch-a-nickle
Peanuckle

Mesaba-
Mushaba
Mesa-bah

United-
Untied
Uni-TED
Un-ted

Comair-
Commie-air

Airtran-
Scaretran

USairways-
Useless air

Delta-
Bubba
"how are the rides? (i swear those guys ask more about turbulence reports than anyone else....)
 
cumulonimbus
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RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:31 am


How about ScareTran?

Phuket airlines,

Don't want to drive Just Phuket!
 
jmc757
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Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2000 3:36 am

RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:16 am

JMC - Just Might Crash or Just More Crap
MyTravel Lite - MyTravel Sh*te
MyTravel - MightTravel
FlyBe - Fly-MayBe
 
Guest

RE: Funny Names For Airlines

Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:17 am

Ted.... no punchline needed  Big grin

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