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Old 4th Dec 2014, 12:02
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Flightmech
 
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Originally Posted by Midland 331
"Clanspeed"/"Transwede"

If I'm not mistaken, both Fedex and Channel Express once used the same "Express" callsign back in the 1980s, pre "Chan-ex".
FedEx used the Express call sign up until the late 90's then simply changed to "FedEx". Several old timers took a while to get used to it and there were many corrections for the first 6 months :-)
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