Back on the subject of inter-airline/international rivalty ....
Another one concerning PAN AM .... and which apparently came from their rival TWA in the USA is this one ....
"PAN AM THE WORLDS MOST EXPERIENCED AIRLINE" .... because they have the world's most experiences
And theres´certainly no shortage of rivalrous nicknames for most of the worlds airlines too .... as follows ....
ACI - "Always Crashing In flames" - "Air Crash International"
Aermediterranea - "Aermediterroranea"
Aeroflot - "the bus" - "Aeroflop" - "Cosmoplot" - "Aerosplat"
Aeromexico - "Aerowrecksico" - "AeroMiedo" (AirScare in spanish) - "AeroMaybe"
Aero Peru - "Aero POOH"
Aerosucre - "Aero Mugre (Spanish for air dirty)
Aero Virgin Airlines - "Aero burnin' Airlines"
Air BC - "Air Bash & Crash - ""Air Burn & Crash" - "Scare BC"
Airbus - "Airbust" - "Scarebus"
AirCal - "AirCrawl" - "Airkill" - "Scare Cal"
Air Cambodia - "Air forbodia"
Air Canada - "Air Can't...uh...duh" - "Trash Can" (sorry Benoit
)
Air Florida - "Air Florideath"
Air France - "Air Chance"
Air Illinois - "Air what's that noise?" - "Scare Illinois"
AI (Air India) - "Allah Informed"
Air Jamaica - "Air Jerks kill ya" - "Air Jammin"
Air Malta - "Air Melt ya" - "Always In Repair May All Learners Take Advantage"
Air Mauritius - "Air Murderous"
Air New England - "Scare No Engines"
Air New York - "Air New jerk"
Air New Zealan - "Air No wheels Land" (bloody hell
)
Air Of Vermont - "Air Of Vomit"
Air Ontario - "Scare Ontario"
Air Pacific - "Air Pacifwreck" - "Air Pathetic"
Air UK - "Air yuck"
Air West - "Air Worst" - "Scare Best" - "Scare West"
Air Wisconsin - "ere We're crashin"
Air Zaire - "Air scare"
Alaska Coastal-Ellis - "I'll ask a ghost to tell us"
ALIA - "Always Late In Arrival"
ALITALIA - "Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival" - Always Late in Takeoff Always Late In Arriving" - "Always Late In Transit Always Late In Arrival" - "Airplane Landed In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta" - "A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude" - "Always Late ITALIANS" - "All landed in Turin All luggage in Athens"
Allegheny Airlines "Agony Airlines" - "Allemaybe Alligator"
Allegheny Commuter - "Agonizing Commuter"
All Nippon Airways - "All fall down Airways"
ALM - "Always Late Machine"
Aloha Airlines - "All over Airlines"
Altair Airlines - "All scare Airlines"
Alyemda - "Airborne Lunatic Yemenites Destroying Airplanes"
American Airlines - "Sham-erican" - (AA) "Always Awful" - "Abort! Abort!" - "Always Awful" - "American't" - "A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now" - "Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and Nausea" - "Amateurs Anonymous"
American Eagle - "Screamin' Eagle"
America West - "America Worst"
Ansett - "Chance-it"
Apache - "Arizona Planes Always Crash Horribly & Explode"
APSA - "Angry Peruvians Smashing Airplanes"
Ariana - "Afghans Really Into Always Neglecting Airplanes"
Arrow Air - "Error Air" - "Harrowing Scare"
Aspen Airways - "Crashpen Airways"
ATA - "Americans Take Alternatives" - "Alcoholics Transporting Alcoholics" - "Always Tardy Airlines"
ATI - "Alternative: Take Iberia"
AUA - "Almost Unknown Airline"
Austral - "Argentinian Users Shun This Rotten Airline"
Aviaco - "Airplanes Violently In Awful Crashes Often"
AVIANCA - "Awful anca"
Aviogenex - "Aviogen wrecks"
AWA - "Always Wasting Assets"
British Airways - "Bloody Awful" - (BA) "British Apoplectic" - "British Scareways" - "Bogus Airline" - "Badly Ailing" - "Bully Airways" - "British Aircrimes" - "Brutish Airways" - "Conair"
Bahamasair - "By llamas air"
Balair - "Fallair"
Balkan Bulgarian - "Broken Bulgarian"
Bangladesh Biman - "Bangladeath flamin"
Bar Harbor Airlines - "Scar Harbor" - "Bar Hopper Airlines"
BEA - "Better Eat Afterwards" - "Back Every Afternoon"
Big Sky Airlines - "Big Scare Airlines"
BMA - "British Mangling Airplanes
BOAC - "Boys Own Aero Club" - "Better On A Camel" - "Bloody Old and Careless" - "Bail Out And Crash" - "British Overseas Air Catastrophes" - "British Overdue Airways Corporation" - "Bring Over American Cash" - "Britain's Only Airborne Circus"
Boeing - "Broken Off Engines In Numerous Gardens" - "Bits Of Engine In Neighbors Garden"
Bonanza Air Lines - "Banana Air Lines" - "Banzai"
Braathens SAFE- "Braathens UNSAFE"
Braniff Intrnational Airways - "Brainless Airlines" - "Brand-F" - "Rainbow or Chiclet Airlines" - "Easter Egg Airlines" - "Pepsi Cola Airlines" (then Braniff's green 747 - "Super Pickle" and Braniff's orange 747 - "The Great Pumpkin".
British Air Ferries - "British scare Ferries"
British Airtours - "British scaretours"
Brockway Air - "Shockway Air"
Brymon Airways - "Die mon Airways"
Business Express/the Delta Connection - "Businss Distress, the Delta Rejection"
BWIA - "Britain's Worst Investment Anywhere" - "Bound to Wait In the Airport" - "But Will It Arrive" - "Britain's Worst Investment Abroad" - "Baggage Wandering In Africa" - "Better Walk If you're Able" - "Born to Wait In Airports" - "But Will I Arrive?" - "Better Wish It Arrives" - "Best Women In Air"
Cameroon Airlines - "No room Airlines" - "Become marooned Airlines"
Canadair Regional Jet - "Skidoo"
Cascade - "Crashcade"
CAT - "Crashes After Takeoff"
Cathay Pacific - "Crash in Pacific" - "Crappay Pathetic" - "The green Latreen"
CC Air - "Crash & Catastrophe Air"
Central Airlines - "Bentral Airlines"
China Airlines - "China scarelines"
Cochise Airlines - "No peace Airlines"
Comair - "Kamikaze Air"
Command Airways - "Commando Airways"
Continental Airlines - "InContinental" - "Can't....Mental" - "Detrimental"
China Airlines - (CA) "Choose Another"
CAAC - "Chinese Airline Always Canceled" - "Caution Almost Always Crashes"
Comair - "Conair"
Conair - "Conned air"
Condor Flugdienst - "Condor Flugdeath"
Cordova Airlines - "Cart over Airlines"
CPA (Canadian Airlines International) - "Can't Promise Anything" - (New code CAI) "Crash And Ignite" - "Call Ambulance Immediately" - "Circle Airport Indefinitely" - "Cruise Above Iceland" - "Cancel Alaskan Itinerary" - "Call Attendants Idiots" - "Check All Items" - "Copilots Are Imbeciles" - "Casual Atmosphere Inside" -
CP Air - "Crashing Planes Air"
Crossair - "Crashair"
Cruzeiro do Sul - "Crasheiro do Sul"
CSA - "Czechs Smashing Airplanes"
Cubana - "Cuburn ya" - "Castro Usually Boards Another Aircraft" - "Crashes Usual Before Arrival At Next Airport"
Cyprus Airways - "Try a bus Airways"
Dan Air - "Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough"
DC-10 - "Greasy Ten" - "Death Cruiser"
Delta - "Doesn't Ever Leave The Airport" - "Didn't Expect To Land There Anyway" - "Don't Even Leave The Airport" - "Don't Even Let Them Aboard" - "Departing Even Later Than Anticipated" - "Deliver Everyones Luggage To Atlanta" - "Deltoid (The Chicken Flight) Air Lines" - "Do Every Little Thing Awkwardly" - "Damaged Engines Limit Takeoff Ability" -
"Departures Extra-Late Tardy Arrivals" - "Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta" - "Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard" - "Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?" - "Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly" - "Melt ya" - "Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive" - "Do Everything Late To Annoy" - "Dirty Exteriors Lack Travellers Approval" - "Don't Ever Land There Again"
DHL - "Duey Huey & Louie" - "Damaged Hidden or Lost"
DLT - "Dis ist your Last Trip" (pronounce with German accent)
Eastern Airlines - "The Wings of Man" - (EAL) "Eastern's Always Late" - "Eastburn Air Lines" - "Every Airplane Seems To Explode & wreck Normally" - "The Wings of Death"
Eastburn Air Lines
EastWest Airlines - "Least Worst Airlines"
Easyjet - "Queasyjet" - "Difficultjet"
Ecuatoriana - "Wreckuatoriana"
Egypt Air - "Gypped Air"
El Al - "Every Landing Always Late" - "EverLasting Always Late" - "Egyptian Louting Arab Loathing" - "Every Landing Always Lousy" - "Everyone's Luggage Always Lost"
ETOPS - "Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim"
FedEx - "Fed up"
Finnair - "Flies Ideally? Nah Not Airbourne In Reality" - "Finished air"
First Air - "First Scare"
Flying Tigers - "Frying Tigers"
Frontier - "Front Rear"
Garuda - "Good Airline Run Under Dutch Administration" - "Get Rooted" - "Gruesome (pronounce Gah-ROO-sum) Indonesia" - "Garuda Insya Allah" - "Good and Reliable untill delay announced"
Ghana Airways - "Gone Airways"
Great Lakes Airlines - "Great Shakes Airlines"
Great Plains Airlines - "Flaming Planes Airlines"
Gulf Air - "Gulp Air"
Hapag-Lloyd - "Hapag-destroyed"
Henson - "Horrible Engines Never Seem to Operate Normally"
Horizon Airways - "Horizontal Airways"
Hughes Airwest - "Flying banana (yellow DC-9s)" - "Hughes Airworst" - "Huge Aircrash" - "Who's Aircraft?"
IBERIA - "I'll bury ya" - "I Barely Even Relax In Airplanes"
Icelandair - "Icelandscare" - (FI) "Fish International"
Indian Airlines - "Indian scarelines"
Inex Adria - "Air Wrecks Adria"
Interflug - "Inter puke"
Intermountain - "Into the mountain"
Iran Air - "I ran here"
Iraqi Airways - "I wrecked it Airways"
JAL - "Japanese Always Late" - "Jittery And Late"
JAT - "Joke About Time" - "Jets Always Tumbling" - "The Flying Garbage Can"
Jetstream Airlines - "Jetscream Airlines"
Kenya Airways - "Can't ya Airways?"
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines - "KLM Royal Ditch Airlines" - "Komische Landungs Metoden" (Funny ways of landing) - "Keeps Losing Money"
Korean Air Lines - "Careenin' Air Lines"
Kuwait Airways - "You wait Airways"
LAA - "Libyan Airborne Accidents"
Lake Central Airlines - "Shake Central Airlines"
Laker - "Shaker"
LAN Chile - "Lots of Airplanes Non-functioning in Chile"
Loftledir - "Lostledir"
Long Island Airlines - "Long die land Airlines"
Lufthansa - "Luftwaffe" - Let Us F$%& that hostess As No Steward Available"
LOT - "Last One There" - "Luggage On Tarmac" - "Lots of Trouble" - "Lands Often on Tempelhoff" - "Leave On a Train" - "Look Out Tower!" - "Lots Of Troubles" - "Lots Of Trauma"
LIAT - "Leaves Island Any Time - "Leaves In Another Terminal" - "Luggage Is Always Tardy" - "Lost In between Antigua and Trinidad" - "Luggage In Another Town"
LTU - "Landings Total Us"
Luxair - "Sucks air"
Maersk - "Many Airplanes Explode Riders Smashed & Killed"
MAS - "Malaysian Airplane Smashers"
Malev - "Many Airplanes Leave Everyone Vomits"
Mall Airways - "Sprawl Airways"
Mexicana - "Wrecksicana" - "Mexicaca (Caca is spanish for feces)
Middle East Airlines - "Muddle East Airlines"
Midway Airlines - "Midair" - "Mayday Airlines"
Midwest Express - "Midwest Distress"
Minerve - "My nerves!"
Mohawk - "Slow hawk" - "Schmohawk Airlines"
Monarch Airlines - "Bomb ark Airlines"
MSA - "May Still Arrive"
McDonnell Douglas - "McGuzzle Does-less"
NCA - "Notify Coast Guard Alas" - "Numerous Catastrophes when Airborne"
NorOntair - "Not in air"
North Central Airlines - "The Blue Goose"
Northeast Airlines - "North least Airlines"
Northwest - "Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport" - "Northworst" - "Noneworse"
Northwest Orient - "Northwest Disorient"
Olympic Airways - "Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash"
Orion Airways - "Cryin' Airways"
ONA - "Often Never Arrives"
Otter Air - "Slaughter Air"
Ozark Air Lines - "krazO" (spelled backwards) - "Noah's ark" - "Oh jerk" - "Slowzark" -
Pilgrim Airlines - "Kill grim Airlines" - "Kill them Airlines"
PNA - "Planes Never Airborne" - "Planes Never Arrive"
Precision Airlines - "Planes Never Airborne" Incision Airlines"Planes Never Airborne"
PIA - "Panic In Air" - "Please Inform Allah" - "perhaps I arrive" - "Please I ate" - "Pray Inform Allah" - "Passenger's Illegal Abductor"
PAL INC - "Plane Always Late If Not Cancelled"
Pan Am - "Pandemonium" - "Plan On Arriving Nervewracked And Mad" - "Painful Nauseating And Miserable" - "Pan slam" - "Passengers Always Neglected At Mealtimes" - Probably Another Night At the Moon" - "Passengers Always Need A Mortician" - "Passengers Always Need A Mortician" - "Pilots Are Not A Must" - "Poor Airline Needs Any Money" - "Passengers Always Nervous And Mad" - (corporate advertising) "We have killed more people on more continents than any other airline".
PAL - "Please Avoid" - "Philippines Always Late" - "Plane Always Late"
PSA - "People Scattered About" - "Perennially Slow Airlines" - "Please Send Ambulances" - "Please Stay Airborne" - "the cattle car" - "Paul's Saturday Airline"
People Express - "Cattle Express" - "Feeble Express" - "People Compress" - "People Depress" - "People Distress" - "Red Army Express"
Piedmont Airlines - "Peed m' pants Airlines" - "Piedmonster"
PWA - "Pete's Wobbly Airline" - "Piddly Widdly Airline" - "Please Wait Awhile" - "Piggly Wiggly Airlines" - "Poor Willy Airlines" - "Panic West Airlines"
QANTAS - "Queasy and Nauseous Tired And Sick" - "Quite A Neat Trick Arriving Safely" - "Quite A Nice Trip Any Survivors?" - "Quits Air-travel Next Time Approaches Ship" - "Quit Always Neglecting The Airplane Stupid" - "Qaint Arse" - "Quick and nasty, typical Australian service" (sorry Nanthan
)
Ransome Airlines (needs no explanation)
Reeve Aleutian - "Real confusion"
Republic Airlines - "Repulsive Airlines" - "Repugnant Airlines"
Rocky Mountain Airways - "Bloody Fountain Airways" - "Rocky Mountain Scareways"
Reno Air - "Reno Scare"
Royal Airlines - "Rarely organized-you're always late" - "Screwed Royally"
Royal Air Maroc - "Royal Air Shock"
SAS - "Slow And Safe" - "Same As SABENA" - "Striking Airline Systems" - "Silly and Stupid" - "Swim and Smile" - "Sex after service" - "Sex and services"
Saudia - "Slaughteria"
SABENA - "Such A Bloody Experience Never Again" - "Such A Bad Experience Never Again"
Southwest - "Southworst" - "Southwaste"
SAHSA - "Stay At Home Stay Alive"
SAM - "subase amarrese y matese" (Spanish for sit and prepared to die)
Simmons Airlines - "Stupid Idiots Moving Morons Over Nothing Slowly"
Skyservice - "Skynervous"
Skyways - "Die ways"
SkyWest Airlines - "SkyWorst Airlines"
Sobelair - "Sober air"
South Central Air - "South Central Scare"
Southern Airways - "South burn Airways"
Southwest Airlines - "Southworst Airlines" - "Southwimps"
Spantax - "Spandex"
Sterling Airways - "Burning Airways"
SWA - "Should We Abort?"
Syrian Air - "Serious scare"
TAA - "Take Another Airline" - "Travel Ansett Always" - ¨"Ta Ta's" (good bye coloquialism)
TAP - "Take Another Plane" - "Take A Parachute" - "Try A Pilot" - "Take A Propjet" - "Tamancos Aereos Portugueses" (Portuguese Flying Wooden Shoes)
TACA - "Take Another Carrier Always" - "Take A Coffin Along" - "Tome Alcohol Cuando Abordo" (Spanish for drink alcohol when abord) - "Take A Chance Airlines"
Trans Texas Airways - "Try to Take an Automobile" - "Tree Top Airlines" - "Travel In Agony" - "Texas Threat to Aviation" - "Too Tardy Airways" - "Tinker Toys Airways"
TAAG - "Targeted by Anti-Aircraft Gunners" - "Troubled Airplanes Always Grounded"
TABA - "Take A Bus Always" - "Taxi Along Back Alleys"
TAN - "TAke off? Never!"
TAROM - "Try to Avoid this Russian-Organized Mess"
TAT - "Take A Train"
TCA - "Turboprops Crashing on Arrival"
TEA - "Turbojets Exploding on Arrival"
Texas Air - "Wrecks us Air"
Thai Airways - "Cry Airways"
TOA - "Take-Off Aborted" - "Taxi Off Airstrip"
Tower Air - "Shower Air"
Transamerica - "Transamericrash"
Transavia Holland - "Can't save ya Holland"
Transbrazil - "TransbraKill"
TWA - "Tramps sleepers and Alcoholics" - "Tacky Wacky Airlines" - "Teeny Weeny Airlines" - "Tammy Wynette Airlines" - "Terrible Worst Airlines" - "Terrorists' Wanted Airlines" - "Travel Without Arrival" - "Try Walking Again - The Worst Airline" - "Took Wrong AirlineTry Walking Across" - "Travel With Arabs" - "Terrorists With Arms" - "Traveling Without Air" - "Tiny Wings A-flappin" - "TightWad Airlines" - "Take Weapons Aboard" - "Terrorists Welcome Aboard" - "Terrorists Will Attack" - "Thousands Wandering Aimlessly" - "Travel With Amal" - "Try Waiting Awhile" - "That Was Accidental" - "Try With Another" - "Today's Worst Airline" - "Tomorrow We'll Arrive" - "Tomorrow's Widebody Accident" - "Totally Wasted Airlines" - "Travel With American" - "Travelling With Angles" - "Trans Witch Airlines" - "Time Wasting Airline" - "Top Whop Aboard" - "Trouble, Worry, and Aggravation"
USAir - "US Scare" - "US Prayer" - "Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality" - "Useless Air" - "US Flare"
US Airways - "Useless Airways" - "US Deathways"
United - "Spewnited" - "Untied" - "Usually No Idea Time Estimated Departure" - "U Never Intended To Eat Didya" - "U Need Insurance That Exempts Death" - "Usually Not Inclined To Eliminate Disasters" - Ur Not Intended To Ever Depart" - "U Never Intend to Expedite Delivery"
URRACA Colombia - "una muerte berraca" (Spanish for Angry Dead Bird)
UTA - "Unlikely To Arrive" - "Unable To Ascend" - "Under the Atlantic"
ValuJet - "Cheap Arse Airways" - "JunkJet" - "Crispy Critter"
VARIG - "Vomit At Regular Intervals Gracefully"
VASP - "Viasao Aereo Sem Preca" (Portuguese for airline without a time schedule or always late)
Vista Jet - "Vista Junk"
Western Airlines - (WAL) "Western's Always Late"
Western Pacific - "Western Pathetic"
World Airways - (corportate advertising) "We Organize Really Long Delays"
Mark C
BOG/CO