Airline acronyms (word play) ?
Kroll Info
I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
For example:
- PIA (Pakastani International Airways) could translate as (Please Inform
Allah) or (Panic In the Air).
Any others?
Many Thanks!
Jude
Dan Morisseau
>I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
>a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
<snip>
>Any others?
SAHSA (Honduran international air carrier) = "Stay At Home, Stay Alive",
supposedly a reference to poora safety record (which I cannot vouch for). I do
have to say that this kind of thing can arouse some REAL volitile emotions ...
the religious reference made to Pakistan International really is quite close
to, if not over, the limit. You may want to rethink the idea, especially where
the "new" acronym might be regarded as offensive or embarassing - my own
indiscretion (above) notwithstanding.
Dan Morisseau
N7ZXL
47 17' 16"N / 122 11' 40"W
Elevation: 300'
Kim Hackett
Info) says:
>
>Howdy all!
>
>I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
>a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
>
>
>- PIA (Pakastani International Airways) could translate as (Please Inform
>Allah) or (Panic In the Air).
>
>Any others?
>
>Many Thanks!
>Jude
http://www/cuug.ab.ca:8001~busew/airlines.html
Kim Hackett
Kim Hackett
>
>Howdy all!
>
>I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
>a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
>
>For example:
>
>- PIA (Pakastani International Airways) could translate as (Please Inform
>Allah) or (Panic In the Air).
>
>Any others?
>
>Many Thanks!
>Jude
Aeromexico
•Aerowrecksico
AirCal
•AirCrawl •Airkill •Scare Cal
Air Canada
•Air Can't...uh...duh...
Air France
•Air chance
Air Illinois
•Air what's that noise? •Scare Illinois
AI (Air India or Air Inter)
•Allah Informed
Air Jamaica
•Air Jerks kill ya
Air New England
•Scare No Engines
Air New York
•Air New jerk
Air Pacific
•Air Pacifwreck
Air Wisconsin
•'ere We're crashin'
Alia
•Always Late In Arrival
Alitalia
•Always Late ITALIAns
Allegheny Airlines
•Agony Airlines •Allemaybe •Alligator
Allegheny Commuter
•Agonizing Commuter
Braniff Airlines
•Brainless Airlines •Brand-F •Rainbow or Chiclet Airlines •Braniff's green 747 = Super Pickle
•Braniff's orange 747 = The Great Pumpkin
BOAC
•Bail Out And Crash •Better On A Camel •British Overseas Air Catastrophes
BWIA
•Bound to Wait In the Airport •But Will It Arrive •Britian's Worst Investment Abroad
Continental Air Lines
•The Proud Bird with the Brass Ass
Delta Air Lines
•Deliver Everyones Luggage To Atlanta... •Don't Ever Leave The Airport •Deltoid (The Chicken
Flight) Air Lines •Do Every Little Thing Awkwardly •Melt ya
Eastern Air Lines
•Eastburn Air Lines •Every Airplane Seems To Explode & wReck Normally •The Wings of Death
El Al
•EverLasting Always Late •Every Landing Always Late
Hughes Airwest
•Flying banana (yellow DC-9s) •Hughes Airworst
Iberia
•I'll bury ya
KLM Royal Dutch
•KLM Royal Ditch
Kuwait Airways
•You wait Airways
Lufthansa
•Luftwaffe
Midwest Express
•Midwest Distress
Northwest Orient
•Northwest Disorient •Northworst
Ozark Air Lines
•"krazO" spelled backwards •Noah's ark •Oh jerk •Slowzark
PAL (Pacific or Philippine Air Lines)
•Plane Always Late
PSA
•People Scattered About •People Scattered All over •Perennially Slow Airlines •Piece of Shit
Airlines •(pronounced "pissah") •Please Send Ambulances •Please Stay Airborne •the cattle car
PIA
•Please Inform Allah
Pan Am
•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!
People Express
•Cattle Express •Feeble Express •People Compress •People Depress •People Distress •PEOPLES'
EXPRESS (pronounce in a revolutionary tone) •Red Army Express •Aeroflot •the bus
Piedmont Airlines
•Peed m' pants Airlines •Piedmonster
Republic Air Lines
•Repugnant Air Lines
Southwest Airlines
•Southwaste Airlines •Southworst Airlines
TWA
•Take Weapons Aboard •Teeny Weenie Airlines •Terrorists Welcome Aboard •Terrorists Will Attack
•The Worst Airline •Thieves, Whores, & Alcoholics •Thousands Wandering Aimlessly •Travel With
Amal •Try Waiting Awhile •Try Walking Across •TWAt
United Airlines
•United Airlanes •U Never Intended To Eat Didya •Untied
US Air
•Unfortunately, Still Allegheny In Reality •U're (You're) Still Allegheny In Reality •USeless Air
•US err •US scare
ValuJet
•Cheap Ass Airways •JunkJet •Crispy Critter
VARIG
•Vomit At Regular Intervals Gracefully
Hotel SPLENDID Nice FRANCE
lufthansa: let us fuck the hostess as no steward available
air france take a chance
boac (old old airline now replaced by british airways): better on a
camel...
keep it going
michel
Peter Hollingsworth
Hackett) wrote:
> In article <4jc5sp$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, krol...@aol.com (Kroll
Info) says:
> >
> >Howdy all!
> >
> >I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
> >a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
> >
> >For example:
> >
how about SABENA, the Belgin national airline.
Such A Bad Experience, Never Again
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The Grand Scale Earthly Destructor
E-Mail:gt1...@prism.gatech.edu
WWW: http://apts19.residence.gatech.edu
Dougie D
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> Howdy all!
>
> I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
> a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
I see a few others have been posted, but I didn't see this one:
QANTAS - Queers And Nancies Trained As Stewards.
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Dougie D
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will Chabun
>In article: <4jc5sp$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> krol...@aol.com (Kroll
Info)
>writes:
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>> Howdy all!
>>
>> I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
>> a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
>
>I see a few others have been posted, but I didn't see this one:
>
>QANTAS - Queers And Nancies Trained As Stewards.
BOAC: Bail Out After Crew
QANTAS: Queer and Nasty; Try Another Service
PWA (Pacific Western Airlines; now part of Canadian Airlines
International): Please Wait Awhile or Pray While Airborne
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Will Chabun
ferrandi
A few more :
SABENA (belgium) = Such A Bloody Experience ... Never Again !
Air France = Air Chance
TAT (france) = Try A Trash
Scott D. Morris
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>will Chabun wrote:
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>> In rec.travel.air Dougie D <Dou...@thegig.demon.co.uk> said:
>> >In article: <4jc5sp$e...@newsbf02.news.aol.com> krol...@aol.com (Kroll
>> Info)
>> >writes:
>> >>
>> >> Howdy all!
>> >>
>> >> I have to give a speech on airline safety and would like to include
>> >> a couple of jokes concerning notorious carriers using their acronyms:
>> >
>> >I see a few others have been posted, but I didn't see this one:
>> >
>> >QANTAS - Queers And Nancies Trained As Stewards.
>>
>> Here are my contributions:
>> BOAC: Bail Out After Crew
Just an fyi to all. "BOAC" has been known for years as "British Airways". They
changed the name back in the early 1970's...
>> PWA (Pacific Western Airlines; now part of Canadian Airlines
>> International): Please Wait Awhile or Pray While Airborne
PWA in fact "renamed" itself "Canadian Airlines International" when it
aquired the former "CPAir (Canadian Pacific Airlines). I think the corporate
name may be still PBA d/b/a. : Canadian Airlines International.
>Air France = Air Chance
Or the how about the slogan, "Take a chance, fly Air France"..
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Hotel SPLENDID Nice FRANCE
have a nice flight
michel
Charles McCool
DELTA - Don't ever leave the airport
TWA - Try Water-landing Again
Non-acronyms
Aeroflop
US Scare
United we fly, United we fall
danny tzur
ago.
Bob Carasik
TWA: Travelers Wait, Always.
SABENA: Sometimes All Best Europeans Never Arrive.
LTU: Leaves Travelers Unboarded
AMTRAK: ~Airliner Moves To Rails, Almost Killed
Lloyd Colston
My contributions are
DELTA Don't Even Leave The Airport
TWA The Worst Airline
Don't know if these have been mentioned yet. But they are ones that
spring to mind.
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DB
<sple...@dialup.nicematin.fr> writes:
>lufthansa: let us fuck the hostess as no steward available
Am I the only one to find this offensive - to women in particular
but, ultimately, to us all?
Darius