Left Coast Sports Babe

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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