Okay, today is something different – airline acronyms. None of these is original, many have been around for a long time. And some have outlasted the airlines they stand for. But most of them are amusing. I collected them together for a post on Tripso.com and am posting them here. For holiday enjoyment and cheerful sour grapes while traveling.
And the post was inspired by a flight attendant who watched several TSA agents doing nothing while a father struggled to get a stroller into the X-Ray machine. – Her comment “Now you know why they call them “Thousands Standing Around.”
ALITALIA – Always Late in Takeoff – Always Late in Arrival
BOAC – Better on a Camel
BA – (British Airways) Bloody Awful
Delta – Directs Everyone’s Luggage to Atlanta
or – Doesn’t Ever Leave the Airport.
or – Don’t Expect Luggage to Arrive
EL AL – Every Landing, Always Late.
PAN AM – Plan on Arriving Nervewracked and Mad
TACA – Take a Chance Airline
TAP Air Portugal – Take Another Plane
TWA – Try Walking Across
or – Took Wrong Airline
US Air – Unfortunately, Still Allegheny in Reality
UTA – Unlikely to Arrive
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Finally a few nicknames:
USeless Air or US Scare, Untied, Northworst, Southworst, Aeroflop, (and Mapleflop for Air Canada.)
And one sent in by a Tripso reader.
“Northwest Airlines has been known as Cobra Airlines, because they could strike at any time.”
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