Many responded to last week's short reference on airline acronyms, so just for fun, I thought I would print a full list this week. Enjoy.

AA (American Airlines) - Always Awful, A Mere Can.

ALITALIA - Air Line In Tokyo And Luggage In Amsterdam, Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival.

BOAC - Better On A Camel.

BA (British Airways) - Bad Attitude, Bloody Awful.

CA (China Airlines) - Choose Another.

CONTINENTAL - Contemptible, Incontinent-al.

DELTA - Departing Even Later Than Expected, Divert Everyone's Luggage To Atlanta.

EL AL - Every Landing Always Late.

JAT (Yugoslav Airlines) - Joke About Time.

KLM - Keeps Losing Money, Keeps Luggage Missing. (One reader responded with the real definition of Koningklike Luchtvaart Maatschapaij, which means Royal Airline Company.)

LOT- (Polish Airlines) - Last One There, Luggage On Tarmac.

NORTHWEST- Northworst.

PAN AM - Plan Arriving Nervous And Mad.

PIA (Pakistan Intl. Air) - Panic In Air, Please Inform Allah.

QANTAS - Queens And Nerds Trained As Stewards.

SAS - Such A Shame.

SABENA - Such A Bad Experience, Never Again.

SIA (Singapore) - So Incredible, Aah! (They even get the nice acronym).

SONG - Scared Of Never Going.

TACA - Take A Chance Airlines.

TAP (Portuguese) - Take Another Plane.

TED - Tired Every Departure. Debt pronounced backwards. The end of United.

THAI AIR - Tired of Hating Airline Incompetence, Thigh Hair.

TWA - The Worst Airline, Try Walking Across, Took Wrong Airline.

USAIR - Unfortunately, Still Awful In Reality.

UNITED AIR - Unconsciously Never Intending To Exit Debt, Always In Reorganization.

An employee from an airline currently in Chapter 11 told me that her airline was shouting "BOHICA, BOHICA, BOHICA," in regard to employee concessions. Bend Over Here It Comes Again.

I guess there is a lot of that going around these days.

What Are the Chances? -- September 2003
Framing Type -- August 2003
Plane Genuis -- October 2003
Passenger Announcements -- November 2003
The Twelve Airline Days of Christmas -- December 2003
Sick and Tired -- January 2004
Where There's a Will -- March 2004
Stinky Rose -- April 2004
Give Her A Hand -- Feb 2004
In-Flight Celebrity Quiz -- May 2004
In-Flight Rats -- June 2004
To Air is Human -- July 2004
All Choked UP -- August 2004
Someone To Lean On -- September 2004
Airlines and Paint Thinner -- October 2004
Looking For Answers -- November 2004
Top Inflight Tips for 2005 -- Jan 2005
Sick and tired -- February 2005
Lavs and lav nots -- March 2005
The April Fool -- April 2005
Carry on like a pro- 10 tips -- May 2005
The flight of infertility -- August 2005
50 Tips from...you -- September 2005
Best and worst travel sayings -- October 2005
Airline Thanksgiving -- Nov 2005
Holiday airport sightings -- Dec 2005
Air travel and your cell phone -- Jan 2006
Welcome Arrival -- Feb 2006
Airline coffee leaving you bitter? -- April 2006
You're Fired -- May 2006
Bumpy summer ahead -- June 2006
Flying High on the 4th of July -- July 2006
12 ridiculous things about air travel -- August 2006
10 wacky airline lawsuits -- September 2006
10 Costumes that won't fly -- October 2006
The safety demo: Theater of the absurd? -- January 2007
Holiday Flying: 10 Tips -- November 2006
Boxing Day -- December 2006
Love is in the air -- Feb 2007

Bohica

15 November 2004

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