New contributions to this list would be appreciated. Boerge Haga, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo Kjeller , Norway A I R L I N E J O K E S =============================================================================== AA (American Airlines) - Always Awful AI (Air India) - Allah Informed ALITALIA - Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival - Air Line In Tokyo And Luggage In Amsterdam BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp.) - Better On A Camel - Bloody Old and Careless CA (China Airlines) - Choose Another CAAC (Chinese Avation Airl.Comp.) - Chinese Airline Always Canceled (Civil Aviation Authority of China ?) - China Airlines Almost (Always) Crashes CPA (Canadian Airl.Intl.) - 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 DELTA - Don't Even Leave The Airport - Don't Ever Leave The Airport - Don't Even Let Them Aboard (referring to the arabs ?) - Departing Even Later Than Anticipated EAL (Eastern) - Eastern's Always Late ELAL - Every Landing Always Late JAT (Yugoslav Airlines)- Joke About Time LOT (Polish Airlines) - Last One There - Luggage On Tarmack (wave 'bye!) LUFTHANSA - Let Us Fuck The Horses, Are No Stewardesses Available PA (Philippine Airways)- Please Avoid PAL (Phil. Airlines) - Philippines Always Late PAN AM - Plan On Arriving Nervewracked And Mad PIA (Pakistan Intl.Airl) - Please Inform Allah - Panic In Air - Perhaps I Arrive QANTAS - Queer And Nasty Types As Stewards SABENA (Belgium) - Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again - Such A Bad Experience, Never Again SAHSA (Servicio Aero Honduras SA) - Stay At Home, Stay Alive SAS (Scandinavian Airl. System) - Sweet And Sexy - Sex And Service SIA (Singapore Intl.Airl.) - So Incredible, Aah TACA - Take A Chance Airline TAP (Portuguese Airl.) - Take Another Plane TWA (Transworld Airl.) - Travel Without Arrival - Try Walking, Asshole - Try Walking Again - The Worst Airline - Took Wrong Airline - Try Walking Across (transatlantic perspective) - Travel With Arabs - Terrorist Welcome Aboard - Terrorists With Arms - Teenie Weenie Airlines - Traveling Without Air - Tiny Wings Aflappin'!!!!! USAir - Unfortunately, Still Alleghany In Reality SOUNDALIKES: ============ Aer Lingus Aer Fungus, Aeroperu Aeroperhaps Air Afrique Air Freak(out) Air Canada Err Canada (as in "To err is human...") Air France Air Chance Air Wisconsin Scare Wisconsin Alleghany Air Agony Air (USAir since many years) British Airways Brutish Airways Brutish Scareways Cascade Airways Crashcade Scareways Continental Contemptible Lufthansa Lusthansa Midwest Express Midwest Excess (True, but worth it) Mohawk Slowhawk Northwest Northworst Northwaste People Express CattleCar Express People Distress People Compress Piedmont Piedmonster (merged with USAir) QuebecAir Quick Air TWA TightWad Airlines United Untied US Air Useless Air US Scare YouSAir USAirheads OTHERS: ======= Delta "We love to fly and it's close" "We love to show our flies" Eastern Who? Mexicana Where being Late is Fashionable THANKS TO: ========== Tom Davis tmd@austin.lockheed.com Merrick Burkhardt sks7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Steven K Smith) njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich) Noah Cole cncole@u2.dartmouth.edu Israel Nelken <israel@cs.toronto.edu> fsbern8@venus.lerc.nasa.gov (Ambady Suresh (Sverdrup)) Ajay.Modi@cs.cmu.edu eric@advansoft.COM (Eric Rindner) FSBERN8@VENUS.LERC.NASA.GOV woody@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk (Ian Woodrow) trogers@yosemite.Eng.Sun.COM (Tom Rogers - Database Engineering) ping@ISI.EDU (Ping Luo) Frank C. Paterra <paterra@xanth.cs.odu.edu> ssid@qsun.att.com (Sameer Siddiqui) Ian <chai@hawk.cs.ukans.edu> dxp%hector@bellcore.bellcore.com Howard Lem <howard@utcs.utoronto.ca> 8614903@ul.ie (Desmond P. O'Donoghue) cjc@rruxu.UUCP (Catherine J Curtis) launce@pluto.med.utah.edu (Launce Gouw) lzs@indetech.com (Lynn Z. Schneider x2077) jordan@tcs.com (Jordan Hayes) ethan miller--cs grad student elm@cs.berkeley.edu owen blevins <blevinso@copper.ucs.indiana.edu> Adrian W. Martin <martin@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au> Derek Elsworth 863-1643 <FKD@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Mike Godfrey migod@csri.toronto.edu David Brooks dbrooks@osf.org microsoft!estim@uunet.uu.net ms17@prism.gatech.edu (Martha Ann Stegar) gford%nunki.usc.edu@usc.edu (Gregory Ford) george@Seri.GOV (George Scott) djs4944@zeus.tamu.edu (Dave) Lisa Wolfisch <lingling@wam.umd.edu> mccurley@cs.sandia.gov (Kevin S. McCurley) Andrew Philpot <philpot@kepler.arc.nasa.gov> ktibv!rdb@nluug.nl (Rob den Braasem) CC70@SDSUMUS (Denise Bauer) UMAXWE@UNC (June Maxwell) Annemarie Kreyenberg <annie@madeira.stanford.edu> SRDJAN%CATHY@YUBGEF51 (Srdjan Cvjetovic) JN0@psuvm.psu.edu (Joyce Neu) V2153A@TEMPLEVM (Eleanor Cicinsky) WHITE@URVAX (Tom White) C535447@UMCVMB (Kirk Arnold Missouri University) healy@spca.bbn.com johnL@radius.com (John Lee) (and all others that I have forgot, please inform me)
(From the "Rest" of RHF)