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]]> By: David https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234416 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:44:33 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234416 “As maybe you’ve heard, Malaysia Airlines is considering a name change — not terribly surprising after two notorious tragedies in less than a year. This doesn’t shock me, but it does concern me for a couple of reasons. First, is it really necessary? People are squeamish, but the bulk of travelers aren’t irrational enough to avoid a particular airline because it happened to be tragically unlucky”

Are travelers “irrational enough” for this to work?

What about the renaming of ValuJet (We leave off the “E” and pass the savings to you!) to AirTran (We leave off the final “S” and pass the savings to you!) after ValuJet illegally stored oxygen generators in the cargo hold, and they blew up on a Atlanta bound flight?

]]> By: Michael https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234412 Wed, 29 Jun 2016 14:28:04 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234412 Well said about Avianca. As you pointed out, the incongruity of some of these names is too much. WOW air, for example. Nothing that communicates “wow” to me about flying the low-fare, replica Nexium pill.

]]> By: Kevin Brady https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234316 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 15:46:37 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234316 Remember “Fly Eastern with Confidence” – I guess confidence you would get to your destination in one piece, which wasn’t always assured back in the 50’s

]]> By: Robert J Zeigler https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234309 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:49:28 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234309 I couldn’t let this topic go by without referencing TTA, officially known (many years ago) as Trans Texas Airlines.

HA!

DC-3’s, landing on grass-infused runways with chickens running around with sweaty, miserable FA’s….

We called it “Tree Top Airlines” or “Tinker Toy Airlines”.

]]> By: Alex https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234202 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:08:01 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234202 “PS: See, this is what I’m talking about. You’re not pronouncing it right, and neither is the tape.”

Hahahahaha

Oh Patrick…only YOU would make such a phone call.

Not making fun of you, just couldn’t resist pointing out such a classic PS moment. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: TJ https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234201 Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:47:47 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234201 Meh, I prefer airberlin myself. (Yes, that’s how it’s supposed to appear…)

]]> By: Zilla https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234035 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 13:07:24 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234035 Many, many years ago, there was an airline called Ontario World Airlines/Airways/etc. I was told it had only one plane. It contracted with the Canadian government to bring refugees over from Vietnam.

]]> By: JamesP https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-234010 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 06:49:57 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-234010 As Confucius once said, “Wisdom begins with calling things by their right names.”

Or maybe he didn’t. But he should have.

]]> By: Stephen R. Stapleton https://askthepilot.com/the-name-game/#comment-227923 Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:12:10 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=8264#comment-227923 In reply to bobbi.

Such as “eBay” or “iPhone”?

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