Airline Nick Names
A
ACI
Always Crashing In flames
Air Crash International
Aermediterranea
Aermediterroranea
Aeroflot
the bus
Aeroflop
Cosmoplot
Aerosplat
Aeromexico
Aerowrecksico
AeroMiedo (This means AirScare in spanish)
AeroMaybe
Aero Peru
Aero P.U.
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
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 Zealand
Air No wheels land
Air Of Vermont
Air Of Vomit
Air Ontario
Scare Ontario
Air Pacific
Air Pacifwreck
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
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
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B
British Airways
Bloody Awful
British Apoplectic
British Scareways
Bogus Airline
Badly Ailing
Bully Airways
Conair
British Aircrimes
Brutish Airways
Bahamasair
By llamas air
Balair
Fallair
Balkan Bulgarian
Broken Bulgarian
Bangladesh Biman
Bangladeath flamin'
Bar Harbor
Scar Harbor
Bar Harbor Airlines
Bar Hopper Airlines
BEA
Better Eat Afterwards
Back Every Afternoon (as opposed to BOAC: Better On A Camel)
Big Sky Airlines
Big Scare Airlines
BMA
British Mangling Airplanes
BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp.)
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 (Not an airline, but hey)
Broken Off Engines In Numerous Gardens
Bits Of Engine In Neighbors' Garden
Bonanza Air Lines
Banana Air Lines
Bonanza
Banzai
Braathens SAFE
Braathens UNSAFE
Braniff Airlines
Brainless AirlinesBrand-F
Rainbow or Chiclet Airlines
Braniff's green 747 = Super Pickle
Braniff's orange 747 = The Great Pumpkin
Easter Egg Airlines
Pepsi Cola Airlines
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 (British West Indies Airways)
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
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C
Cameroon
No room
Cameroon Airlines
Become marooned Airlines
Canadair Regional Jet (RJ)
Skidoo
Cascade
Crashcade
CAT
Crashes After Takeoff
Cathay Pacific
Crash in Pacific
CCAir
Crash & Catastrophe Air
Central Airlines
Bentral Airlines
China Airlines
China scarelines
Cochise Airlines
No peace Airlines
Comair
Kamikaze Air
Command Airways
Commando Airways
Continental
InContinental
Can't....Mental
Detrimental
CX (Cathay Pacific)
Crappay Pathetic
CA (China Airlines)
Choose Another
CAAC (Chinese Avation Airline Company)
Chinese Airline Always Canceled
China Airlines 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
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D
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
Delta: "We love to fly and it shows"
Delta Connection: "We're Learning to Fly and it Shows"
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
Delta Gets You Close (Parody on advertising campaign after landing at the wrong airport a few times -- "Delta Gets You There")
Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive
Do Everything Late To Annoy
Dirty Exteriors Lack Travellers' Approval
Don't Ever Land There Again
DHL
Huey, Duey, & Louie
Damaged, Hidden, or Lost
DLT
Dis ist your Last Trip (pronounce with German accent)
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E
Eastern
The Wings of Man (really!)
Eastern's Always Late
Eastburn Air Lines
Every Airplane Seems To Explode & wReck Normally
The Wings of Death
Eastburn Air Lines
EastWest Airlines
LeastWorst 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 (not an airline but aviation-related nonetheless)
Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim
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F
FedEx
Fed up
Finnair
Flies Ideally? Nah, Not Airbourne In Reality
Finished air
First Air
First Scare
Fly First, Arrive Last
Flying Tigers
Frying Tigers
Frontier
Front Rear
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G
Garuda (Indonesian carrier)
Good Airline Run Under Dutch Administration
Get Rooted
Gruesome (pronounce Gah-ROO-sum) Indonesian
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
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H
Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-destroyed
Henson
Horrible Engines Never Seem to Operate Normally
Horizon
Horizontal
Hughes Airwest
Flying banana (yellow DC-9s)
Hughes Airworst
Huge Aircrash
Who's Aircraft?
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I
Iberia
I'll bury ya
I Barely Even Relax In Airplanes
Icelandair
Icelandscare
Fish International (Two-letter code - FI)
Indian Airlines
Indian scarelines
Inex Adria
I wrecks Adria
Interflug
Inter puke
Intermountain
Into the mountain
Iran Air
I ran here
Iraqi Airways
I wrecked it Airways
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J
JAL
Japanese Always Late
Jittery And Late
JAT (Yugoslav Airlines)
Joke About Time
Jets Always Tumbling
Jetstream Airlines
Jetscream Airlines
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K
Kenya Airways
Can't ya Airways?
KLM Royal Dutch
KLM Royal Ditch
Komische Landungs Metoden (German: Funny ways of landing)
Keeps Losing Money
Korean Air Lines
Careenin' Air Lines
Kuwait Airways
You wait Airways
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L
LAA
Libyan Airborne Accidents
Lake Central Airlines
Shake Central Airlines
Laker
Shaker
LAN-Chile
Lots of Airplanes Non-functioning in Chile
Linjeflyg
When we die
Loftledir
Lostledir
Long Island Airlines
Long die land Airlines
Lufthansa
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffa
Let Us F*ck The hostess As No Steward Available
LOT (Polish Airlines)
Last One There
Luggage On Tarmac
Lots of Trouble
Lands Often on Tempelhoff (somehow old nowadays)
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
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M
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
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N
NCA
Notify Coast guard, Alas
Numerous Catastrophes when Airborne
NorOntair
Not in air
North Central Airlines
The Blue Goose (logo)
Northeast Airlines
North least Airlines
Northwest
Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport
Northworst
Noneworse
Northwest Orient
Northwest Disorient
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O
Olympic
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
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P
Pilgrim Airlines
Kill grim Airlines
PNA
Planes Never Airborne
Precision Airlines
Incision Airlines
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
We have killed more people on more continents than any other airline!
Passengers Always Need A Mortician
Pilots Are Not A Must
Poor Airline Needs Any Money
Passengers Always Nervous And Mad
PAL (Philippine Airways)
Please Avoid
Philippines Always Late
Plane Always Late
PSA
People Scattered About
People Scattered All over
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
PEOPLES' EXPRESS (pronounce in a revolutionary tone)
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
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Q
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
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R
Ransome Airlines
(this airline doesn't NEED a nickname)
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
Royal Jordanian
Air Jordan
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S
SAS
Slow And Safe
Same As Sabena
Striking Airline Systems
Silly and Stupid
Swim and Smile
Sex after service
Sex and services
Saudia
Slaughteria
Shuttle-by-United
Cattle-by-United
Sabena (Belgian carrier)
Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again
Such A Bad Experience, Never Again
Southwest
Southworst
Southwaste
SAHSA (Servicio Aero Honduras SA)
Stay At Home, Stay Alive
SIA
Singapore Imitates America
Simmons Airlines
Stupid Idiots Moving Morons Over Nothing Slowly
Skyservice
Skynervous
Skyways
Die ways
SkyWest Airlines
SkyWorst Airlines
SMB
Should've landed in Missouri, not Brazil
Sobelair
Sober air (rarely)
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?
SWISS
So What, It's Still Swissair
Syrian Air
Serious scare
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T
TAA (Trans Austraila Airlines)
Take Another Airline
TAP
Take Another Plane
Take A Parachute
TACA
Take Another Carrier Always
Take A Coffin Along
Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda
Take A Chance Airlines
Texas International Airways (Formerly Trans Texas Airways)
Try to Take an Automobile
Tree Top Airlines
Travel In Agony
TAA
Take Another Airline
Travel Ansett Always
Ta Ta's
TAAG
Targeted by Anti-Aircraft Gunners
Troubled Airplanes Always Grounded
TABA
Take A Bus Always
Taxi Along Back Alleys
TAN
TAke off? Never!
TAP
Take A Propjet
Take Another Plane
Try A Pilot
TAPs
Tamancos Aereos Portugueses
(Portuguese Flying Wooden Shoes)
TAROM
Try to Avoid this Russian-Organized Mess
TAT (Transcontinental Air Transport or Transport Aeriem Transregional)
Take A Train
TCA (Trans Canada or Trans Caribbean Airlines)
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
TTA (Trans Texas Airways)
Texas Threat to Aviation
Tree Top Airlines
Too Tardy Airways
Tinker Toys Airways
TWA
Tramps, Whores 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 Airline
Try Walking Across (transoceanic perspective)
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
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U
UL (The two-letter code for Air Lanka)
Usually Late
USAir
US Scare
US Prayer
US err
Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality
Useless Air
US Flare
US Airways
Useless Airways (formerly just Useless Air)
US Deathways
United
Spewnited
Untied
Usually No Idea (of) 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
UTA
Unlikely To Arrive
Unable To Ascend
Under the Atlantic
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V
ValuJet
Cheap A** Airways
JunkJet
Crispy Critter
VARIG
Vomit At Regular Intervals Gracefully
VASP
Viasao Aereo Sem Preca
Airline without a time schedule (or always late) (roughly translated from Portuguese, as it does not translate exactly into English)
Vista Jet
Vista Junk
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W
Western Airlines
Western's Always Late (WAL)
Western Pacific
Western Pathetic
World Airlines
We Organize Really Long Delays
And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen
