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Re: Best airline call signs
I always thought the former Atlantic Southeast Airlines has a very clever callsign before they switched to “Acey”. Their call sign was “Candler”, which is an homage to Asa Griggs Candler, the founder of Coca Cola. The airline was headquartered in Atlanta, the home of Coca Cola and typically went by their initials of ASA. Pretty clever, in my opinion.
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I honestly love all callsigns that are not the airline name.
Giant, Speedbird, Connie, Dynasty... all amazing!!!
Some European charter airlines also have nice ones... Beauty (TUI Belgium), Moonflower (Neos), etc...
Giant, Speedbird, Connie, Dynasty... all amazing!!!
Some European charter airlines also have nice ones... Beauty (TUI Belgium), Moonflower (Neos), etc...
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Avianca’s callsing is Avianca, and to me it’s a beautiful name, so I’ll make it my no. 1.
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I liked Air Florida: Palm and New York Air: Apple. Air South used Khaki Blue a reference to their colors. A blue blazer and khaki slacks is often referred to as the southern tuxedo.
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Hawaiian Airlines flight 50 from HNL to JFK
"Hawaii 5-0"
"Hawaii 5-0"
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Endeavor Air used "Flagship" as its call sign when it was Pinnacle.
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I've always liked SAA callsign "Springbok", especially given the 1995 flyover of the Rugby World Cup final
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Confuscius wrote:American
Delta
United
Southwest
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PDX757 wrote:Seaport airlines: Sasquatch
This is the correct answer. Notable runners-up are "Redwood," "Speedbird" and "Critter."
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BoeingGuy wrote:Ziyulu wrote:Dynasty! Given their safety record, many called it "die-nasty"!
This is at the top of my list too. However, your comment is unnecessary. While CI has had safety incidents in the past, their track record is very good of late. They have greatly improved. I flew them last year to RGN and was very impressed with them.
I didn't hear anyone say Springbok yet. That's another classic.
I was just stating what I heard. I too, like them. It is one of my favorite airlines, their service is much better than SQ, NH, or TG, in my opinion.
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nikeherc wrote:I liked Air Florida: Palm and New York Air: Apple. Air South used Khaki Blue a reference to their colors. A blue blazer and khaki slacks is often referred to as the southern tuxedo.
You beat me to the punch, I was definitely going to give a nod to Khaki Blue, it's where I got my screen name.
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nikeherc wrote:I liked Air Florida: Palm and New York Air: Apple. Air South used Khaki Blue a reference to their colors. A blue blazer and khaki slacks is often referred to as the southern tuxedo.
You beat me to the punch, I was definitely going to give a nod to Khaki Blue, it's where I got my screen name.
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JBo wrote:Endeavor Air used "Flagship" as its call sign when it was Pinnacle.
Must have been passed down
That was our call sign at Republic Express
in the 80’s
Always thought it was a good one
Prior to the merger with UA there was a
move at Continental to change our radio
call sign for brevity’s sake
My suggestion was ‘Cal’
It was not taken up
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Max Q wrote:JBo wrote:Endeavor Air used "Flagship" as its call sign when it was Pinnacle.
Must have been passed down
That was our call sign at Republic Express
in the 80’s
Always thought it was a good one
Prior to the merger with UA there was a
move at Continental to change our radio
call sign for brevity’s sake
My suggestion was ‘Cal’
It was not taken up
Cal probably couldn’t have happened when Air Cal was still flying. Has anyone used Cal before?
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Really love critter and had forgotten about pan am clipper .
Interestingly beeline was first used by BEA before they merged with BOAC. Call signs can be re used . I know that Thomson now tui wanted to go back to Thomson from tui air but someone had got it so they are now tomjet.
Also like ascot which is raf transport flight and reach which is usaf .
Is there a website like domain names where you have to see what’s available when you start an airline ?
Interestingly beeline was first used by BEA before they merged with BOAC. Call signs can be re used . I know that Thomson now tui wanted to go back to Thomson from tui air but someone had got it so they are now tomjet.
Also like ascot which is raf transport flight and reach which is usaf .
Is there a website like domain names where you have to see what’s available when you start an airline ?
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Ps have also heard callsign
Thundercat and Jedi don’t know who they are though
Thundercat and Jedi don’t know who they are though
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Some that I've used over the years:
Titan : Zap
XL UL : Exbo
Van Air: Eurovan
Linksair: Fastlink
DHL Europe: EuroTrans
TNT: Quality
Star Air: White Star
Flybe: Jersey
Titan : Zap
XL UL : Exbo
Van Air: Eurovan
Linksair: Fastlink
DHL Europe: EuroTrans
TNT: Quality
Star Air: White Star
Flybe: Jersey
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Is there any rules regarding what the callsign can be? I’d guess there’s a requirement for uniqueness although there might be leeway for someone in NZ to have the same as someone in Spain. What about the actual words, can I have “ Buttscratcher 69” and who is the arbiter if when it becomes silly?
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I think only one carrier worldwide can use a callsign at one time . When a carrier stops using it . It goes back in the pool for others to use . For eg Thompson call sign was taken by a Australian billionaire that’s why they could re use it
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f4f3a wrote:Ps have also heard callsign
Thundercat and Jedi don’t know who they are though
Thundercat would be Catreus, a small private jet charter company based out of UK
http://avcodes.co.uk/details.asp?ID=28579
Jedi is Jet Story, a charter company based in Poland
https://aerosavvy.com/more-airline-call-signs/ (This list actually has quite a few of "interesting" callsigns that other in the thread already points out).
Ziyulu wrote:BoeingGuy wrote:Ziyulu wrote:Dynasty! Given their safety record, many called it "die-nasty"!
This is at the top of my list too. However, your comment is unnecessary. While CI has had safety incidents in the past, their track record is very good of late. They have greatly improved. I flew them last year to RGN and was very impressed with them.
I didn't hear anyone say Springbok yet. That's another classic.
I was just stating what I heard. I too, like them. It is one of my favorite airlines, their service is much better than SQ, NH, or TG, in my opinion.
Getting somewhat off topic, but CI's old safety record was definitely awful, to the point that my family avoid them back in late 1990s even though their fare were dirt cheap (compare to CX or even NW back then) flying from HKG to mainland US via TPE. Their problems were not too different than KE's safety problem back around the same time period anyway, i.e. mostly ex-military pilots that formed the fairly toxic "hierarchial" culture with no regards to CRM.
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ORDfan wrote:
Straight and to the point. No confusion at all.
Unlike this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw3CeVKUtwE
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hooverman wrote:CHC Helicopters: Maple
Maple currently is the callsign of Skyregional airlines operating E175s as Air Canada Express.
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Super is a required atc add on telling the controller an a/c is above a certain certified weight for spacing purposes.
Like heavy for 747,767,a340 etc. every aircraft has to use it.
Like heavy for 747,767,a340 etc. every aircraft has to use it.
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So all this begs the question...how does an airline get its call sign and who or what assigns them?
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dfwjim1 wrote:So all this begs the question...how does an airline get its call sign and who or what assigns them?
An airline will submit an application to ICAO with their preferred callsign(s)
ICAO hold the register and allocate the callsigns to avoid duplication.
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