Airline acronyms

Air wing

 

AA (Adria Airways)
Always Awful

AI (Air India)
Allah Informed

Alitalia (Italy)
A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude

American
A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now

AUA (Austrian Airlines)
Almost Unknown Airline

AWA (America West Airlines)
Always Wasting Assets

BA (British Airways)
Bloody Awful

BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp.)
Better On A Camel

BWIA (Carribean airline)
Better Walk If you're Able

CA (China Airlines)
Choose Another

CAAC (Chinese Avation Airline Company)
Chinese Airlines Always Cancel

CAI (Canadian Airlines International)
Circle Airport Indefinitely

DELTA (USA)
Doesn't Even Leave The Airport

EAL (Eastern Airlines, USA)
Eastern's Always Late

El Al (Izrael)
Everyones Luggage Always Lost

JAT (Yugoslav Airlines)
Joking About Time
Jamais à temps (akronim je prispevala Jasna)

LOT (Poland)
Lots Of Trouble

LIAT (Carribean airline)
Lost Inbetween Antigua and Trinidad

NORTHWEST (USA)
Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport

OLYMPIC (Greece)
Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash

PA (Philippine Airways)
Please Avoid

PAL (Philippine Airlines)
Plane Always Late

PAN AM (USA)
Plan On Arriving Nervewracked And Mad

PIA (Pakistan International Airlines)
Perhaps I'll Arrive

PLUNA (Air Uruguay)
Pocos Locos Usan Nuestros Aviones (peščica norih ljudi uporablja naša letala)
(contributed by Argentina Guy)

QUANTAS (Australia)
Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?

SABENA (Belgium)
Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again

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

SAS (Scandinavian Airline System)
Sweet And Sexy

SIA (Singapore Airlines)
So Incredible, Aah

TACA (a group of Latin American airlines)
Take-A-Chance Airline

TAP (Air Portugal)
Take A Parachute

TWA (Transworld Airlines, USA)
Terrorist Welcome Aboard

UNITED (USA)
Usually Not Inclined To Eliminate Disasters

USAir (former Alleghany Airlines)
Unfortunately, Still Alleghany In Reality

VIRGIN
Very Interesting Ride; Going Into Nymphos

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