You are both so busy with your sarcasm and superior knowhow that you fail to see my point. OK, here goes in plain language. For years JERSEY EUROPEAN used the callsign "Jersey". In other words "Jersey" was synonymous with JERSEY EUROPEAN. The company changes its name to BRITISH EUROPEAN but retains the callsign "Jersey". In THIS particular case I see this as potentially confusing. Liveries are not the issue in this post. Speedbird, Clipper, etc. are well established callsigns and, again, are irrelevant to my point.
By the way, "Clipper" is still in use today! It's used by Pan Am (now that's a coincidence), a U.S. company operating scheduled flights from Portsmouth NH with B727s. Our intrepid airline tycoon THE GUVNOR was intending to operate his Tristars to Portsmouth and link up with Pan Am if you remember.
[This message has been edited by Avman (edited 02 April 2001).]