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2 new jets for Flydubai. A6-FDA & A6-FDB

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Taken on 25-04-2009 Boeing's 737 assembly faciliy at Renton Washington

Nice pics, cheers! Interesting Livery, not what i expected!

2 down, 52 to go! :ok:

Is the callsign for this airline?

''Dubai''

Heard this particular callsign on frequency can't remember if it was Manchester or London ATC sector but it was only a few days ago, thought it might have been on its positoning flight.

Aka.

Dubai call sign is for the Royal Family and their horses etc!!

Guess it will be Fly Dubai XYZ....or maybe The Fly Dubai XYZ depending on the PNF and where he is from .

Thanks RFusmoke,

I was going to be cheeky and ask the controller but the frequency was busy :}... good thing I didn't!

I remember when Etihad started flying I used to hear controllers say 'ETDxxx' instead of the word 'Etihad'.

The funny one was when after the controller had several responses after saying 'ETDxxx' the pilot responded and tried to help the controller on how it was pronounced (saying it slowly E-T-I-H-A-D xxx) but she still replied with 'ETDxxx'.

Maybe that was protocol by ATC for the new carrier but I think it was more to do with the fact that they didn't know how to pronounce the callsign properly. I'm ready to be corrected :)

Anyways I digress, thanks for clearing that up.