I do look up information about WN, AA, DL, and UA from multiple sources, not just on Wikipedia or Google, but on, ,, aa.com,, and. Virgin America was named after Virgin Group, the owner of the Virgin brand, and Virgin America was partially owned by Virgin Group prior to its acquisition by Alaska Airlines.Īre you a bot forming sentences from information found on Wikipedia and Google? The current Frontier Airlines, which is now an ULCC, took its name from a defunct legacy carrier that discontinued operations in 1986, and the original Frontier Airlines, which operated between 19, took its name from its location in the Frontier of the United States. Even though Alaska Airlines has expanded beyond the state of Alaska, Alaska Airlines still has an Alaskan hub at ANC and Alaska Airlines does still operate intrastate routes within the state of Alaska. along with destinations in the West Coast, Mountain West, Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast regions of the U.S., and in addition to that, Southwest also now serves international destinations in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.Īlaska Airlines is named after the state of Alaska, the state where its original operations were located in. In addition, Southwest now serves additional destinations in the Southwestern U.S. Southwest Airlines is named after the Southwestern United States, the region where the airline was founded and the region where its DAL home base and HOU and PHX focus cities are located. But despite its use of all caps in the title (always EVA Airways, never Eva Airways), is not an initial or abbreviation - the name is pronounced Eva, not E. But Evergreen International didn't like it and contested Evergreen Airways' ICAO and US trademark applications so Evergreen Group decided to shorten the English name of its airline to Eva Airways, which later became EVA Airways. But there was an US-based cargo airline call Evergreen International Airline (now also defunct) so Evergreen Group initially named its airline Evergreen Airways to differentiate from the US company. The airline was incorporated by the Evergreen Group, at one point the largest container shipping company in the world.
Safe to say, it didn't go thru any sort of focus group or proper vetting by someone with reasonable proficiency in the English language.Īnother Taiwanese airline with nonsensical name is EVA. The English name "U-Land" was a trans-iteration of the parent company's Mandarin name "Ruìlián". The short Wikipedia article does not do justice the short but color history of this airline. It was a LCC based in Taiwan with an implied optimistic view of the aviation skills of its passengers. My favorite defunct airline name of all time is U-Land Airlines. The long haul airline's crews used to refer to BEA as Back Every Afternoon. When the government decided to merge BOAC and BEA, they used the dormant British Airways name which was still owned by BOAC. All of these were state owned corporations. After a couple of disastrous crashes BSAA was folded back into BOAC. European routes were hived off after the war to the newly formed British European Airways Corporation (always known as BEA) and the South American routes went to British South American Airways Corporation. In fact BOAC was formed from a merger of state owned Imperial Airways and privately owned British Airways just before WW2. The idea that British Airways would want to be in any way associated with British Railways (by that time shortened to British Rail anyway) is hilarious. And the mystery of them all - Delta Air Lines.
And then we have a whole bunch of "Air" in both preceding and following positions - Air France, Air India, but Gulf Air. Etihad is also "Airways" while Emirates doesn't have any "suffix". But still, we have Pakistan Airlines but Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines but Thai Airways. I suppose British Airways was named after British Railways to keep the commonality. Why some are Airlines and some are Airways.
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