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Old 1st January 2005 | 23:58
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Airline Names..The real meaning

QANTAS
Queens And Nymphomaniacs Trained As Stewards
SAS
Sex After Sandwiches
BA
Beastly Actually
Bloody Awful
BOAC
Better On A Camel
SABENA
Such A Bad Experience Never Again
DELTA
Don`t Even Leave The Airport
UTA
Unlikely To Arrive
TWA
Terrorists Welcome Aboard
TAA
Try Another Airline
ALITALIA
Arrive Late In Tokyo And Luggage In Athens
OLYMPIC
Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash
LUFTHANSA
Let Us F##k The Hosties And Not Say Anything
TEAL(Air New Zealand)
Terrible Experience Always Late
GARUDA
Good Airline Ruined Under Dutch Administration

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Old 2nd January 2005 | 00:02
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Before this gets sent off to JetBlast:

Alitalia:
Always late in taking off, always late in arriving

Lufthansa
Let us F*** the hostesses as no stewards available

BOAC (During Profumo affair)
Bend over again, Christine

SAHSA
Stay at home, stay alive

SAS
Same as Sabena

TWA
Try Walking Across
(Or after TWA800 - three-hundred wet Americans - Nasty)
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 00:42
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Ryanair

Bend over, drop your pants, while I give it to you up the a$$
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 03:12
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EMIRATES

English Manage, Indians Run And The Expats Suffer......
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 03:34
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Spin off of Air Canada called TANGO stands for:

That's All Now Get Off!
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 04:33
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More of the Same

QANTAS
Quite A Nice Trip Awesome Service
LUFTHANSA
Let us F**k the Hostesses As No Stewards Available
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 07:52
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Clever And Trim Hostesses Are Your Perfect Aesthetic Companions In Flight I Contend

or

Cute And Tasty Hosties As Yet Persistently Avoid Consummating Inflight Fantasies If Chatted-up

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Old 2nd January 2005 | 08:45
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BOAC
Used to mean Bought on American credit
finally changed to

Better off at Caledonian

PIA
Please inform Allah

AI
Allah informed

KLM
(K)nights of Love and Madness
Once known as Kill Little Monkeys - a freight charter, seems you had to be there.

SABENA
Such a bloody experience, never again.

AF
Air France - Air Chance

EI
Aer Lingus - Aer Lingum (look that one up)

BEA
Britains Excuse for an Airline

SAS
Sex and Satisfaction

Heat

Almost forgot.

OLYMPIC
Onassis Likes Your Money, Please - In Cash.

Heat
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 09:23
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BEA - Bu**er Everybody About

QANTAS - Quell All Nice Thoughts About Survival
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 09:46
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From: Vilha Abrao
www.hlf.de (Hapag-Lloyd)

world wide warning.have low fuel.declare emergency


ooops
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 10:05
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From: East of the Sun & West of the Moon
Anyone remember Worldways ....

We Organize Really Long Delays, Wait Around, You'll See!
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 12:25
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GARUDA - Grotty Airline Run Under Dutch Administration

SWISS - So What, It's Still Swissair

LUFTHANSA - Luggage Usually Flies To Hamburg And Never (the) Selected Airport

QANTAS - Queers And Necrophiliacs, Transvestites And Sodomites

Does anyone have one for CITIEXPRESS????????
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 12:33
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From: ISLE OF MAN
IBERIA

incompetent, because everyone really isn't arsed
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 14:21
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BA (British Airways) = Bad Attitude

DJ (Virgin Blue) = Very Basic or simply, Very BAD!
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 14:35
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JMC

Just Murdered Caledonian

LIAT

Luggage In Another Timezone

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Old 2nd January 2005 | 14:44
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SWISS

So What Its Still Swissair
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Old 2nd January 2005 | 16:19
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From: 'Merica
Cool

TACA (from Central America) = Take A Chance Airways


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Old 2nd January 2005 | 16:41
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We used to call.....

JMC = Just Might Crash



Also very nasty one for TACA Think about it, might post it later!

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Old 2nd January 2005 | 21:15
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On the day of change to JMC I remember the AML crew straight away came up with JUST MORE CRAP.

How apt.

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Old 2nd January 2005 | 21:26
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hehe FormerFlyer... that one seemed to be a favourite of the tourists complaining to the holiday reps on a jmc holiday I was once on...
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