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  • Airline nickname list

    This will not be new to most people here -- it is an expansion of a list that has been around for years.

    However, I'm always interested in new items for the list. I'm also interested in more non-english nicknames for the list -- as long as they come with translations!

    Without further ado, here is the fairly comprehensive list of airline nicknames:

    A

    Aer Lingus
    Air Fungus
    Arousing Erotic Randy Ladies In Nice Green Uniform Suits

    Aermediterranea
    Aermediterroranea

    Aeroflot
    Accidents Expected Regularly On F*cking Lethal Old Tupolevs
    Aeroflop
    Aeroflotsam
    Aerosplat
    Aircraft Everywhere Run On Fuel Left Over by Tanks
    Airline Every Russian Or Foreigner Leaves on Terrified
    Almost Everyone Retches Once Finished Landing On This
    Ancient Engines, Really Old Fleet, Lots Of Trouble
    An Exciting Russian Offer For Lashings Of Terror
    AwfulLot
    the bus
    Cosmoplot
    Scareoflot

    Aeromexico
    AeroMaybe
    AeroMiedo (Spanish: AirScare)
    Aerowrecksico

    Aeronaves de Mexico
    AeroNervous

    Aero Peru
    Aero P.U.
    Aero Puree
    Aeroperhaps

    Aero Virgin Airlines
    Aero burnin' Airlines

    Air Afrique
    Air Freak(out)
    Air Tragique

    Air Atlantique
    Air Antique
    Air Frantic

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

    AirCal
    AirCrawl
    Airkill
    Scare Cal

    Air Cambodia
    Air forbodia

    Air Canada (AC)
    Air Cannibal
    Air Cannibis
    Air Can't...uh...duh...
    Air Cattle Car
    Air Chaos
    Air Crappy
    Always Crappy
    Err Canada
    Mapleflot
    Scare Canada
    Trash Can

    Air Charter International (ACI)
    Air Crash International
    Always Crashing In flames

    Air Florida
    Air Florideath

    Air France
    Air Chance
    Air Delay
    Air Dirt
    Air Frogs
    An International Reputation For Rude and Non Caring Employees

    Air Gabon
    Air Go Down

    Air Illinois
    Air what's that noise?
    Scare Illinois

    Air India (AI)
    Airplanes In Repo In Nigeria, Delay Inevitable Anyway
    Allah Informed
    Always Indefinite
    After I Return, I’ll Never do It Again

    Air Inuit
    Air Imaha (Inuktitut: Air Maybe)

    Air Jamaica
    Air Jerks kill ya
    Air Jammin'

    Air Lanka (UL)
    Air Clunker
    Always Intended Return to Land And Not Kill Anyone
    Usually Late

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

    Air Mauritius
    Air Murderous

    Air Midwest
    Air Mudwest

    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

    AirTran
    Air Transvestite
    Air Trash
    Atlanta Is Ready To Re-route Arriving Narrowbodies
    ScareTran

    Air Transat
    Air Transient
    Air Trashcan

    Air UK
    Air yuck

    Air West
    Air Worst
    Scare Best
    Scare West

    Air Wisconsin
    Air Whiskey
    Dairy Air
    'ere We're crashin'
    Scare Wisconsin

    Air Zaire
    Air Peut-être (French: Air Perhaps)
    Air scare

    Air Zimbabwe
    Air Zimbobsled

    Alaska
    Another Late Arrival, Start Kissing Ass

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

    ALIA
    Always Late In Arrival

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

    Allegheny Airlines (AL)
    Agony Airlines
    Air Late
    Allemaybe
    Alligator
    Always Late

    Allegheny Commuter
    Agonizing Commuter

    All Nippon Airways (ANA)
    Airplane Never Arrives
    All fall down Airways
    All New Aviators

    ALM (Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
    Always Late Machine

    Aloha Airlines
    All over Airlines

    Altair Airlines
    All scare Airlines

    Alyemda
    Airborne Lunatic YEMenites Destroying Airplanes

    American Airlines (AA)
    A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
    Abort! Abort!
    Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and Nausea
    Alcoholics Anonymous
    Always Awful
    Amateurs Anonymous
    American't
    Ameriflot
    Antique Aircraft
    Arrogant A**holes
    Atrocious Airways
    Sham-erican

    American Eagle
    Screamin' Eagle

    American Trans Air (ATA)
    Alcoholics Transporting Alcoholics
    All Times Approximate
    Always Tardy Airlines
    Americans Take Alternatives
    American Trash Air
    Another Trashed Airline
    Arrives Tardy Always

    America West Airlines (AWA)
    Always Wasting Assets
    America Pest
    America Worst

    Ansett
    Aircraft Nosewheel Stuck, Expect Tricky Touchdown
    Any New Stewardess Expects Traumatic Temptations
    Chance-it

    Apache
    Arizona Planes Always Crash Horribly & Explode

    Aerolinas Peruvianas SA (APSA)
    Angry Peruvians Smashing Airplanes

    Ariana
    Afghans Really Into Always Neglecting Airplanes

    Arrow Air
    Error Air
    Harrowing Scare

    Atlantic Coast Airways (ACA)
    Another Crappy Airline

    Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA)
    A Sad Airline
    Always Stuck in Atlanta
    Always Sucks Anytime
    America's Sh---iest Airline
    America's Sorriest Airline
    Another Sorry Airline

    Aspen Airways
    Crashpen Airways

    ATI
    Alternative: Take Iberia

    Austral
    Argentina's Useless Shitty Third Rate Airline
    Argentinian Users Shun This Rotten Airline

    Austrian Airlines (AUA)
    Absolutely Unecessary Airline
    Almost Unknown Airline

    Aviaco
    Airplanes Violently In Awful Crashes Often

    Avianca
    A Very Inferior And Nasty Colombian Airline
    Avinunca
    Awful anca
    Aviogenex
    Aviogen wrecks

    B
    Bahamasair
    By llamas air

    Balair
    Fallair

    Balkan Bulgarian
    Broken Bulgarian

    Bangladesh Biman
    Bangladeath flamin'

    Bar Harbor Airlines
    Bar Hopper Airlines
    Barf Harbor AIrlines
    Scar Harbor AIrlines

    Big Sky Airlines
    Big Scare Airlines

    Bonanza Air Lines
    Banana Air Lines
    Banzai

    Braathens SAFE
    Braathens UNSAFE
    Bratwurst

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

    British Air Ferries
    British scare Ferries

    British Airport Authority (BAA)
    Brits Against Aviation

    British Airtours
    British scaretours

    British Airways (BA)
    Bad Attitude
    Badly Ailing
    Best Avoided
    Bloody Awful
    Bogus Airline
    British Aircrimes
    British Apoplectic
    British Scareways
    Broken Aircraft
    Brutish Airways
    Bully Airways
    Conair

    British Caledonian (BCAL)
    Better Crawl Across Lover

    British European Airways (BEA)
    Back Every Afternoon
    Been ‘Ere Already
    Better Eat Afterwards
    Bloody Expensive Airline
    British Excuse for an Airline
    Broken Engines Everywhere
    Bugger Everyone About
    British Island Airways
    Blimey, It's Arrived

    British Midland Airways (BMA)
    British Mangling Airplanes

    British North West Airlines (BNWA)
    Bankrupt Next Week – Again!

    British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC)
    Badly Organized Airways Corporation
    Bail Out And Crash
    Barely Own Any Clocks
    Bend Over Again Christine
    Better Off At Caledonian
    Better On A Camel
    Better On Air Canada
    Bloody Old and Careless
    Boeing Only Aircraft Club
    Book On Another Carrier
    Bought On American Credit
    Bring Over American Cash
    British Overdue Airways Corporation
    British Overseas Air Catastrophes
    Britain's Only Airborne Circus
    Bumping Over African Countryside (after an altimeter-setting incident many moons ago)

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

    Brittannia Airways
    Shit on ya Airways

    Brockway Air
    Shockway Air

    Brymon Airways
    Die mon Airways

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

    C

    CAA (UK Civil Aviation Authority)
    Campaign Against Aviation

    Cameroon Airlines
    Become marooned Airlines
    No Room Airlines

    Canada 3000
    Cattlecar 3000

    Canadian Airlines International (CAI)
    Call Ambulance Immediately
    Call Attendants "Idiots"
    Cancel Alaskan Itinerary
    Casual Atmosphere Inside
    Check All Items
    Circle Airport Indefinitely
    Copilots Are Imbeciles
    Crash And Ignite
    Cruise Above Iceland

    Canadian Pacific Airlines/CP Air (CPA)
    Cabbage Patch Airlines
    Can’t Predict Arrival
    Can't Promise Anything
    Completely Penniless And In Receivership
    Crashing Planes Air
    Sleepy Air

    Canjet
    Cannedjet
    Can't jet

    Capital Airlines
    Crap it all Airlines

    Cargolux
    Cargosucks

    Cathay Pacific
    Crappay Pathetic
    Crash in Pacific

    CCAir
    Crash & Catastrophe Air

    Central Airlines
    Bentral Airlines

    Chautauqua Airlines
    Chiquita
    Sh** Taco

    China Airlines (CA)
    China scarelines
    Choose Another

    Chinese Aviation Airline Company (CAAC)
    Cancel At Any Cost
    China Airlines Almost (Always) Crashes
    Chinese Airline Always Canceled

    Civil Air Transport (CAT)
    Crashes After Takeoff

    Cochise Airlines
    No peace Airlines

    Comair
    CommieAir
    Commune Air
    Communist Air
    Conair
    Kamikaze Air

    Command Airways
    Commando Airways

    Conair
    Conned air

    Condor Flugdienst
    Condor Flugdeath

    Continental
    Can't....Mental
    Contemptible
    Crapinental
    Detrimental
    InContinental
    The Big Bird with the Brass Ass
    (in reference to a golden tailed 60’s paint scheme)

    Cordova Airlines
    Cart over Airlines

    Crossair
    Crashair

    Cruzeiro do Sul
    Crasheiro do Sul

    CSA (Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie)
    Crappy Service Aboard
    Czechs Smashing Airplanes

    Cubana
    Castro Usually Boards Another National Airline
    Crashes Usual Before Arriving at Nearest Airport
    Cuburn ya

    Cyprus Airways
    Try a bus Airways

    D

    Dan Air
    Damn Air
    Dan Dare
    Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough

    Delta
    Damaged Engines Limit Takeoff Ability
    Darn, Everything Leads To Atlanta
    Dazed Executives Leading This Airline
    Deliver Everyone's Luggage To Atlanta
    Delayed Even Later Then AirTran
    Delta Gets You Close (Parody on advertising campaign slogan "Delta Gets You There", after landing at the wrong airport a few times)
    Deltoid (The Chicken Flight) Air Lines
    Departing Even Later Than Anticipated
    Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
    Didn't Expect to Land There Anyway
    Dirty Exteriors Lack Travellers' Approval
    Do Every Little Thing Awkwardly
    Do Everything Late To Annoy
    Does Eventually Limp To an Airport
    Doesn't Ever Leave The Airport
    Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
    Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
    Doing Everything Less Than Average
    Don't Even Leave The Airport
    Don't Even Let Them Aboard
    Don't Ever Land There Again
    Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive
    Don’t Expect to Leave Terminal Alive
    Don’t Expect Luxury Treatment Aboard
    Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly
    Hell-ta
    Melt ya

    Delta Connection
    Delta Conniption
    "We're Learning to Fly and it Shows" (from the Delta slogan: "We love to fly and it shows" )

    DHL
    Huey, Duey, & Louie
    Damaged, Hidden, or Lost
    Day and a Half Late
    Desperately, Hopelessly Lost
    Drop it, Hide it, Lose it

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

    E
    Eastern
    Eastburn Air Lines
    Eastern's Always Late
    Every Airplane Seems To Explode & wReck Normally
    The Wings of Death (from old Eastern slogan "The Wings of Man")

    EastWest Airlines
    LeastWorst Airlines

    Easyjet
    Difficultjet
    Economy Airline Slows Your Journey Every Time
    Queasyjet
    Sleazyjet
    Squeezyjet

    Ecuatoriana
    Wreckuatoriana

    Egypt Air
    Gypped Air

    El Al
    EverLasting Always Late
    Every Landing Always Late
    Every Landing Always Lousy
    Everyone's Luggage Always Lost

    Emirates
    Emirats
    Enema
    English Managed, Indian Run, A Thousand Ex-pats Suffering

    Empire Airlines
    Impure Airlines

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

    F

    FedEx
    Fed up
    Foul-ups and Errors in Delivery EXpected

    Finnair
    Finished air
    Finally in Norway, No Airport In Range
    Flies Ideally? Nah, Not Airborne In Reality
    Flights Into Nomadic Northern Arctic Isolated Regions
    Freezing Inside, Not Necessarily Air In Restrooms
    Thin air

    First Choice Airways
    Last Choice Airways

    Flying Tigers
    Crying Tigers
    Frying Tigers

    Frontier Airlines
    Front in rear Airlines

    G

    Garuda
    Get Another Reservation Unless Dead Already
    Get Rooted
    Gets Airborne Relying On Divine Assistance
    Go And Relax Until Delay Announcement
    Good Airline Run Under Dutch Administration
    Gruesome (pronounce Gah-ROO-sum) Indonesian

    Ghana Airways
    Gone Airways

    Gibraltar Air (GB Air)
    Getting Better Airways

    Great Lakes Airlines
    Great Mistakes
    Great Shakes Airlines

    Great Plains Airlines
    Flaming Planes Airlines

    Gulf Air
    Get Used To Late Flights - Aircraft In Repair
    Get Used To Late Flights And Incorrect Reservations
    Goof Air
    Gulp Air

    H

    Hapag-Lloyd
    Hapag-destroyed

    Hawaiian Airlines
    Why are we on Airlines

    Henson
    Horrible Engines Never Seem to Operate Normally

    Horizon
    Hair raising
    Horizontal

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

    I

    Iberia
    I Barely Even Relax In Airplanes
    I'll bury ya
    It Beats Every Record In Awfulness
    It Breaks Every Rule In Aviation

    Icelandair (FI)
    Fish International
    Icelandscare

    Imperial Airways
    Imperious Airways

    Independence Air
    Co-dependence Air

    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

    Japan Air Lines (JAL)
    Japanese Always Late
    Jets Along Lazily
    Jittery And Late
    Journey Always Late

    JAT (Yugoslav Airlines)
    Jets Always Tumbling
    Joke About Time

    Jetblue
    Jetblows

    Jetsgo
    Jets go nowhere
    Jets going, going, gone...
    Jetsgoat
    Jetsgone
    Jetsgrounded
    JetsNo
    Jetstop

    Jetstar
    Deathstar
    Just Expect Terrible Service; They’re Always Rotten

    Jetstream Airlines
    Jetscream Airlines

    JMC Airlines
    Just Might Crash
    Just More Crap

    K

    Kenya Airways
    Can't ya Airways?

    KLM Royal Dutch
    Keep Looking Miserable
    Keep Luggage Missing
    Keeps Losing Money
    Kindly Leave Money
    KLM Royal Ditch
    Knowledge-Less Management
    Komische Landungs Metoden (German: Funny ways of landing)
    Koop Lockheed Majesteit (Dutch: "Buy Lockheed, Your majesty", after the Lockheed bribe scandal)

    Korean Air Lines (KAL)
    Careenin' Air Lines
    Karate After Lunch

    Kuwait Airways
    You wait Airways

    L

    Lake Central Airlines
    Shake Central Airlines

    Laker
    Shaker

    LAN-Chile
    Lost Airplanes Network
    Lots of Airplanes Non-functioning in Chile

    Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT)
    Land In A Tree
    Leaves In Another Terminal
    Leaves Island Any Time
    Lost In between Antigua and Trinidad
    Lucky If Able To
    Luggage In Another Timezone
    Luggage Is Always Tardy
    Luggage Isn't Arriving Today

    Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA)
    Libyan Airborne Accidents

    Linjeflyg
    When we die

    Loftledir
    Lostledir

    Long Island Airlines
    Long die land Airlines

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

    LTU (Luft Transport Union)
    Landings Total Us
    Lufthansa Training Unit

    Lufthansa
    Lousy Useless Fliers: They Haven't Any Navigational Systems Aboard
    Luftwaffe
    Luggage Usually Flown To Hamburg And Never Seen Again
    Lusthansa

    Luxair
    Sucks air

    M

    Maersk
    Many Airplanes Explode; Riders Smashed & Killed

    Malaysian Airlines System (MAS)
    Malaysian Airplane Smashers
    Most Asians Sail

    Malev
    Many Airplanes Leave; Everyone Vomits
    Many Awful Landings Encourages Vomiting

    Mall Airways
    Sprawl Airways

    Merpati
    Miserable experience. Routinely pilots are totally incompetent

    Mesa Airlines
    Maintenance Especially Sucks Airlines

    Metrojet
    Ghettojet
    Jethrojet
    Tomatojet

    Mexicana
    Mexicaca (Caca is spanish for feces)
    Wrecksicana

    MIAT (Mongolian Airlines)
    Maybe I'll Arrive Tomorrow

    Middle East Airlines
    Monotonous Experience Always
    Muddle East Airlines

    Midway Airlines
    Mayday Airlines
    Midair

    Midwest Express
    Midwest Distress
    Midwest Excess
    Midworst

    Minerve
    My nerves!

    Mohawk
    Schmohawk Airlines
    Slow hawk

    Monarch Airlines
    Bomb ark Airlines

    Mid-South Airlines (MSA)
    May Still Arrive

    MyTravel
    MyDelay

    N

    National Airlines (NA)
    Crash ‘em all Airlines
    Never Again
    Smashional

    National Jet
    National Joke

    Neos
    Never, Ever On Schedule

    Nigeria Airways
    Die Geria Airways

    Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA)
    Notify Coast guard, Alas
    Numerous Catastrophes when Airborne

    NLM (Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
    Numerous Landing Malfunctions

    NorOntair
    Not in air

    North Central Airlines
    The Blue Goose (logo)

    Northeast Airlines
    North least Airlines

    Northwest (NWA)
    Cobra Airlines (They’ll strike at anything) – reflecting the state of the airline’s unions
    Nation's Worst Airline
    Neglect With Attitude
    Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport
    Northworst
    Northwaste
    Noneworse
    Not Wanted Again

    Northwest Orient
    Northwest Disorient
    Northworst Arrogant

    O

    Olympic
    Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash

    Orion Airways
    Cryin' Airways

    Otter Air
    Slaughter Air

    Overseas National Airways (ONA)
    Often Never Arrives

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

    P

    Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA)
    Planes Never Airborne

    Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA)
    Paul's Saturday Airline
    People Scattered About
    Perennially Slow Airlines
    Please Send Ambulances
    Please Stay Airborne
    The cattle car

    Pacific Western Airlines (PWA)
    Panic West Airlines
    Pete's Wobbly Airline
    Piddly Widdly Airline
    Piggly Wiggly Airlines
    Please Wait Awhile
    Poor Willy Airlines
    Pray Whilst Aloft
    Probably Won’t Arrive

    Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
    Pain In the Ass
    Panic In Air
    Passenger's Illegal Abductor
    Pay Insurance Ahead
    Perhaps I arrive
    "Please, I ate"
    Pray Inform Allah

    Pan Am
    Pan slam
    PAinful, Nauseating And Miserable
    Pandemonium
    Passengers Always Need A Mortician
    Passengers Always Neglected At Mealtimes
    Passengers Always Nervous And Mad
    Pathetic And Nasty And Mean
    Pathetic And Nonsensical Aircraft Maintenance
    Pilots Are Not A Must
    Pilots Are Nuts, Attendants Maybe
    Plan On Arriving Nervewracked And Mad
    Poor Airline Needs Any Money
    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

    Philippine Airlines (PAL)
    Philippines Always Late
    Plane Always Late
    Please Avoid

    Piedmont Airlines
    Peatmoss Airlines
    Peed m' pants Airlines
    Piedmonster

    Pilgrim Airlines
    Kill grim Airlines
    Planes Inspected Lazily by Grass-smoking, Really Incompetent Mechanics

    Pinnacle Airlines
    Pinch Nickel Airlines

    Precision Airlines
    Incision Airlines

    Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA)
    Planes Broken All over

    Q

    QANTAS
    Quaint Arse
    Queasy and Nauseous, Tired And Sick
    Queers And Nasty Types As Stewards
    Queers And Nymphomaniacs Trained As Stewards
    Quell All Nice Thoughts About Survival
    Quick And Nasty Transportation, Australian Style
    Quit Always Neglecting The Airplane, Stupid
    Quite A Neat Trick, Arriving Safely
    Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?
    Quite Another Thing to Arrive Safely
    Quits Air-travel, Next Time Approaches Ship

    Queen Charlotte Airlines (QCA)
    Queer Collection of Aircraft

    R

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

    Reeve Aleutian
    Real confusion

    Reno Air
    Rarely Early, Never On Time, Always In Repair
    Reno Scare

    Republic Airlines
    Repugnant Airlines
    Repulsive Airlines

    Rocky Mountain Airways
    Bloody Fountain Airways
    Rocky Mountain Scareways

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

    Royal Air Maroc
    Read Airplane Manual
    Royal Air Shock
    Runways Always Missed

    Royal Jordanian
    Air Jordan

    Ryanair
    Cryin’ Air
    Eireoflot
    Lyin’ Air
    Micky O'Leary's F*ck You Airways
    Ruin Air
    Running Your Ailing National Airline Into Receivership

    S

    Sabena
    Select A Better European National Airline
    Such A Bad Experience, Never Again
    Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again

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

    Saudia
    Saudi Airlines Underhand Deals Include Alcohol
    Slaughteria

    Scandinavian Airline System (SAS)
    Same As Sabena
    Service After Sex
    Sex Always Supplied
    Sex And Satisfaction
    Sex And Service
    Sex and Smorgasbord
    Sexy A** Stewardess
    Silly and Stupid
    Sit And Suffer
    Slow And Safe
    SOS
    Stays At the Surface
    Striking Airline Systems
    Sweet And Sexy
    Swim and Smile

    Shuttle-by-United
    Cattle-by-United
    Scuttle by United

    Singapore Airlines (SIA)
    Sex In the Air
    Sick In Air
    Singapore Imitates America
    Sing no more Airlines
    So Incredible Aah

    Skybus
    Skybust

    Skyservice
    Skynervous

    Skyways
    Die ways

    SkyWest Airlines
    ScareWorst
    SkyWorst Airlines

    SMB
    Should've landed in Missouri, not Brazil

    Sobelair
    Sober air (rarely)

    Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín (SAM)
    Súbase, Amárrese, y Mátese (Spanish: get on board, strap yourself in, and kill yourself)

    Song Airways
    Same Old Nasty Girls
    Thong Airways

    South African Airways/Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAA/SAL)
    Service An Afterthought
    Skyborne Apartheid Always
    Sold All Assets
    Sommer Altyd Laat (Afrikaans: Pretty Much Always Late)

    South Central Air
    South Central Scare

    Southern Airways
    South burn Airways

    Southwest Airlines (SWA)
    Greyhound Air
    Should We Abort?
    Southwaste
    Southwimps
    Southworst Airlines
    The Ghetto Express

    Spantax
    Spandex

    Spirit
    Fear It

    Sterling Airways
    Burning Airways

    Sun Country
    Scum Country

    Swiss
    So What, It's Still Swissair

    Swissair
    Sexy Women In Swissair Service Are Incredibly Raunchy
    Sexy Woman In Swissair Service Are Indeed Rare

    Syrian Air
    Serious scare

    T
    TAAG Angola Airlines
    Targeted by Anti-Aircraft Gunners
    Troubled Airplanes Always Grounded

    TAM (Transportes Aéreos Marília)
    Terror Aéreo Mundial (Portugese: worldwide airborne terror)
    Todos A bordo Morrerão (Portugese: all on board will die)
    Transportes Aéreos Malditos (Portugese: Cursed air transportation)
    Tudo Acaba Mal (Portugese: everything goes badly)

    Tango (Air Canada)
    That's All, Now Get Off!

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

    TAROM
    Those Awful Russian-Operated Machines
    Try to Avoid this Russian-Organized Mess

    Touraine Air Transport (TAT)
    Take A Train

    TED
    Tardy Every Day

    Texas Air
    Wrecks us Air

    Texas International Airways (Formerly Trans Texas Airways)
    Travel In Agony

    Thai Airways
    Cry Airways

    THY Turkish Airlines
    They Hate You
    Try Hijacking Yourself

    Time Air
    Slime Air

    TNT
    Tomorrow, Not Tonight

    TOA
    Take-Off Aborted
    Taxi Off Airstrip
    TOrA, TOrA, TOrA!

    Tower Air
    Take Off Without Essential Repair

    Transamerica
    Transamericrash

    Trans Australia Airlines (TAA)
    Ta Ta's
    Take Another Airline
    Travel Ansett Always

    Transavia Holland
    Can't save ya Holland

    Transbrazil
    TransbraKill

    Trans Canada Airlines (TCA)
    Tin Can Airlines
    Turboprops Crashing on Arrival

    Transcontinental and Western Airlines, later Trans-World Airlines (TWA)
    Tacky Wacky Airlines
    Take Weapons Aboard
    Take Whatever's Available
    Tammy Wynette Airlines
    Teeny Weeny Airlines
    Terrible Worst Airlines
    Terrorists' Wanted Airlines
    Terrorists Welcome Aboard
    Terrorists Will Attack
    Terrorists With AK-47s
    Terrorists With Arms
    That Was Accidental
    That Was Awful
    Thieves, Whores and Alcoholics
    Thousands Wandering Aimlessly
    TightWad Airlines
    Time Wasting Airline
    Tiny Wings A-flappin'!!!!!
    That Was Accidental
    The Worst Airline
    Today's Worst Airline
    Tomorrow We'll Arrive
    Tomorrow's Widebody Accident
    Took Wrong Airline
    Top Whop Aboard
    Totally Wasted Airlines
    Touch Wood Again
    Trans Witch Airlines
    Travel With Amal
    Travel With American
    Travel With Arabs
    Travel Without Arrival
    Travelling With Angels
    Traveling Without Air
    Trembling Wings Airlines
    Trolleys Without Airconditioning
    Trouble, Worry, and Aggravation
    Try Waiting Awhile
    Try Walking Across (transoceanic perspective)
    Try Western Airlines
    Try With Another
    Twenty Wobbly Airplanes

    Trans European Airlines (TEA)
    Turbojets Exploding on Arrival

    Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) (Not an airline, but still relevant)
    Take Scissors Away
    Thousands Standing Around

    Transportes Aereos Centro-Americanos (TACA)
    Take A Chance Airlines
    Take A Coffin Along
    Take Another Carrier Amigo
    Tenemos Accidente Cada Año (Spanish: We have an accident every year)
    Tragedias Aéreas Centro Américanas.
    Tres Accidentes Cada Año (Spanish: Three accidents each year)
    Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda

    Transportes Aereos Da Bacia Amazonica (TABA)
    Take A Bus Always
    Taxi Along Back Alleys

    Transportes Aereos Nacionales (TAN)
    TAke off? Never!

    Trans Texas Airways (TTA)
    Teeter-Totter Airways
    Texas Threat to Aviation
    Tinker Toys Airways
    Too Tardy Airways
    Tree Top Airlines
    Try to Take an Automobile

    U

    Union de Transports Aeriens (UTA)
    Unable To Ascend
    Under the Atlantic
    Unlikely To Arrive

    United (UA/UAL)
    Ignited
    Spewnited
    U Again?
    U Ain’t Leaving
    U Always Late
    Undeniably Awful
    U Need Insurance That Exempts Death
    U Never Intend to Expedite Delivery
    U Never Intended To Eat Didya
    Untied
    Untidy
    Unusually Awful Landings
    Ur Not Intended To Ever Depart
    Usually Always Late
    Usually No Idea (of) Time Estimated Departure
    Usually Not Inclined To Eliminate Disasters

    UPS (United Parcel Service)
    Oops
    United Parcel Smashers

    USAir
    Underwater Seats Available In Rear
    Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality
    US err
    US Flare
    US Prayer
    US Scare
    Useless Air
    Usually Stewardesses Are Irrationally Romantic
    US Airways
    US Deathways
    Useless Airways

    V

    ValuJet
    Cheap A** Airways
    Crispy Critter
    JunkJet

    VARIG
    Very Arrogant Rogues In General
    Vomit At Regular Intervals Gracefully

    Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo (VASP)
    Viasao Aereo Sem Preca (Portugese: Airline without a time schedule)

    VIASA (Venezolana Internacional de Aviación, Sociedad Anónima)
    Vomit In A Sack Always

    Virgin
    Very Interesting Ride: Going Into Nymphos

    Virgin Atlantic
    Burn in Atlantic

    Virgin Blue
    Vermin Blue

    VLM (Vlaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
    Very Little Maintenance

    W

    Wapiti Aviation
    Whop A Tree Aviation

    Wardair
    Wart Air

    Westair Commuter Airlines (WCA)
    We Crash A lot

    Western Airlines (WAL)
    Western's Always Late
    Worst Airlines
    Worrisome Airlines

    Western Pacific
    Western Pathetic

    Westjet
    Pestjet
    Worstjet

    Wien Alaska Airlines
    Weird Alaska Airlines

    Windward Island Airways (WIA)
    Whenever It Arrives

    World Airways
    We Organize Really Long Delays
    Weird Airways

    Worldways
    We Organize Really Long Delays: Wait Around, You'll See

    Wright Airlines
    Wrong Airlines

    Z

    Zambia Airways
    Zombia Airwa

  • #2
    Some of them are rather good, but as far as I can remember the last fatal accident with Aeroflot was the A310 that crashed.

    Still, some of them are rather funny.
    "And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension." Senna, Ayrton.

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    • #3
      Who's on first?..........

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      • #4
        Air Zimbabwe- Air Zimbab-where?

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        • #5
          Delta: "We love to fly but we try to keep it to ourselves"
          Be alert! America needs more lerts.

          Eric Law

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