U.s. Airways?

[speedbird86]

I know this is trivial but the spelling of US Airways bothers me. I see signage in airports directing psgrs to U.S. Airways. Most of the time the media spells it U.S. Airways. We got a new airport a few years back and sure enough, there it was, U.S. Airways. We brought it to the attention of the airport authority and it was changed to correctly spell US Airways. I just don't get it. Is it that difficult to figure out? Maybe we spell it wrong. Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[EyeInTheSky]

Corporate Communications should be on the ball on this. Most companies are very particular about how the company's name is spelled, not US Airways. Publications that don't do it correcty should be contacted by US Airways' CC department, but they don't. I just saw "US Air" in MSNBC, didn't the company spend a fortune painting planes, name, all that? If the company doesn't care how the name is spelled, do you think the publishers and media will? I can guarantee you when a newspaper spells "Delta Airlines" they get a call from the Delta people saying it's correctly spelled Delta Air Lines.

 

[Light Years]

I agree. Newspapers are always calling it U.S. Airways or U.S. Air or USAir. Whats so difficult about US Airways? I have seen several airports with new signage that says US Air.

 

[mweiss]

Couple of things come to mind. First, Delta has been Delta Air Lines since the piston days, unlike US Airways nee USAir nee Allegheny. Second, I do see Delta Airlines fairly often, despite the name (BTW, does anyone know why they're the oddball name in that regard?). People will get things wrong.

How many people on this very board refer to SouthWest Airlines? How hard is that one to get right?

 

[RowUnderDCA]

Hey, here's an idea: USE STANDARD ENGLISH, if you want to be understood.

Don't let idiotic corporate image makers convince you that US Airways isn't us airways. Is there a form of speech that is somewhere between a word and initials? Again, it isn't United States Airways.

What's wrong with real words and real english? (I recognize the irony of decrying poor english on an internet bulletin board, so don't bother pointing that out)

 

[Light Years]

Technically, the logotype has a dot type thing between the U and the S, but the corporate name is US Airways. Two words. People dont write Star Bucks or A and P supermarkets, they write Starbucks and A&P. When its a person or entity's name, you cant change it, you write it as it is.

I have seen on very few occassions, journalists say British Air, American Air, United Air etc, and it just sounds really dumb and uninformed. People use USAir not only because its the former name, but because they think they are coming off as knowing or speaking the lingo, too cool for the -ways, too much effort for that fourth syllable...

News articles shouldnt use slang names, or shortened names, particularly if its the former name of the entity, similar or not. One may argue that they hear employees say USAir, but so? That doesnt make it the company's name. You wouldnt put a headline that says "Mickey D's CEO dies of heart attack" because people dont say McDonalds.