PA18
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According to the letter announcing the change, the USA designator will be maintained. Which will further confuse the air traffic controllers. Especially the ones in Europe.
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According to the letter announcing the change, the USA designator will be maintained. Which will further confuse the air traffic controllers. Especially the ones in Europe.
Bobbie
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I think it's nonsensical. The majority of their aircraft are flying around with US Air as the callsign already... more pilots to retrain. It's an ego thing for the sand royalty. It's important that at least one bit of America West live on for all the pilots to face day in and day out...
If we're going hog wild on call signs, why not call it Piedmont...as long as we're delving into airlines of the past whose names have nothing to do with the current airline name
If we're going hog wild on call signs, why not call it Piedmont...as long as we're delving into airlines of the past whose names have nothing to do with the current airline name
flybynite
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I still think SNAFU would be a good match.
Yet the call sign "Speedbird" is ok for British Airways?
N965VJ
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This will prove amusing if US ever flies to Australia:
Australian slang link
Cactus : dead, not functioning ("this bloody washing machine is cactus")
New FA sales contest; first prize a Cadillac, second prize a set of steak knives, third prize you’re fired!
Australian slang link
Cactus : dead, not functioning ("this bloody washing machine is cactus")
New FA sales contest; first prize a Cadillac, second prize a set of steak knives, third prize you’re fired!
exB717Flyer
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Has USAPA activated the CIRP to help Easties deal with this devastating news?
Piney Bob: dude, if you think something as insignificant as our callsign has anything to do with anything else you really don't understand this industry at all.
Piney Bob: dude, if you think something as insignificant as our callsign has anything to do with anything else you really don't understand this industry at all.
wopr21
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Exactly, Its just another great move for the company to bring us all together in harmony. The call sign should have been something different. They had the opportunity again to do something for better moral and failed.
Until we are all paid the same and are truly one company I will say whatever they want me to say.
wopr21
GorgeousGeorge
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Does it matter? Who cares what the callsign is, or the color of the aircraft, or the style of uniform. Unlike seniority, none of those things are important to trade unionism and because pilots don't get it, it is why unionist like the longshoremen working on the docks make more than pilots. The pilot profession ceased to be a trade union a long time ago and is shouldn't be any wonder why the job is in the toilet.
In keeping with FOM procedures, effective 9/01 I will start using the phraseology of Cactus, but identifying the livery, so as to minimize confusion. e.g. Cactus 2117, US Airways livery.....
Can't wait to see the flood of ASAP's over this one....
BoeingBoy
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Speedbird was the name of the BOAC logo (and their predecessor airline Imperial Airways, although the logo appeared on the nose of the aircraft at Imperial), so when ATC instituted callsigns they chose Speedbird as theirs. The merger of BOAC and British European Airlines formed BA, which kept the Speedbird callsign.
Of course, Speedbird became especially fitting when the Concorde entered service.
Jim
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lynyrdskynyrd
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Looks more like keeping with the east mentality to me. You know the one, my way or the high way, and I'll stomp and kick and resort to all kinds of underhanded tactics if anything is not to my liking.
I think they're copying me 
I own an East Coast company named Solid Cactus. It should be interesting, first off, I'd say half the people who live on the East Coast can't spell cactus. They for some reason thing its cacus or catus. Is there a way I could change my forum name? Now everyone is going to really think I work at the sand castle...
I own an East Coast company named Solid Cactus. It should be interesting, first off, I'd say half the people who live on the East Coast can't spell cactus. They for some reason thing its cacus or catus. Is there a way I could change my forum name? Now everyone is going to really think I work at the sand castle...
Bobbie
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The big question! How can a pilot add the letter s to the end of Cactus?
The death of "USairs" is upon us!
The death of "USairs" is upon us!
