This will not be new to most people here -- it is an expansion of a list that has been around for years.
However, I'm always interested in new items for the list. I'm also interested in more non-english nicknames for the list -- as long as they come with translations!
Without further ado, here is the fairly comprehensive list of airline nicknames:
A
Aer Lingus
Air Fungus
Arousing Erotic Randy Ladies In Nice Green Uniform Suits
Aermediterranea
Aermediterroranea
Aeroflot
Accidents Expected Regularly On F*cking Lethal Old Tupolevs
Aeroflop
Aeroflotsam
Aerosplat
Aircraft Everywhere Run On Fuel Left Over by Tanks
Airline Every Russian Or Foreigner Leaves on Terrified
Almost Everyone Retches Once Finished Landing On This
Ancient Engines, Really Old Fleet, Lots Of Trouble
An Exciting Russian Offer For Lashings Of Terror
AwfulLot
the bus
Cosmoplot
Scareoflot
Aeromexico
AeroMaybe
AeroMiedo (Spanish: AirScare)
Aerowrecksico
Aeronaves de Mexico
AeroNervous
Aero Peru
Aero P.U.
Aero Puree
Aeroperhaps
Aero Virgin Airlines
Aero burnin' Airlines
Air Afrique
Air Freak(out)
Air Tragique
Air Atlantique
Air Antique
Air Frantic
Air BC
Air Bash & Crash
Air Burn & Crash
Scare BC
AirCal
AirCrawl
Airkill
Scare Cal
Air Cambodia
Air forbodia
Air Canada (AC)
Air Cannibal
Air Cannibis
Air Can't...uh...duh...
Air Cattle Car
Air Chaos
Air Crappy
Always Crappy
Err Canada
Mapleflot
Scare Canada
Trash Can
Air Charter International (ACI)
Air Crash International
Always Crashing In flames
Air Florida
Air Florideath
Air France
Air Chance
Air Delay
Air Dirt
Air Frogs
An International Reputation For Rude and Non Caring Employees
Air Gabon
Air Go Down
Air Illinois
Air what's that noise?
Scare Illinois
Air India (AI)
Airplanes In Repo In Nigeria, Delay Inevitable Anyway
Allah Informed
Always Indefinite
After I Return, I’ll Never do It Again
Air Inuit
Air Imaha (Inuktitut: Air Maybe)
Air Jamaica
Air Jerks kill ya
Air Jammin'
Air Lanka (UL)
Air Clunker
Always Intended Return to Land And Not Kill Anyone
Usually Late
Air Malta
Air Melt ya
Always In Repair May All Learners Take Advantage
Air Mauritius
Air Murderous
Air Midwest
Air Mudwest
Air New England
Scare No Engines
Air New York
Air New jerk
Air New Zealand
Air No wheels land
Air Of Vermont
Air Of Vomit
Air Ontario
Scare Ontario
Air Pacific
Air Pacifwreck
AirTran
Air Transvestite
Air Trash
Atlanta Is Ready To Re-route Arriving Narrowbodies
ScareTran
Air Transat
Air Transient
Air Trashcan
Air UK
Air yuck
Air West
Air Worst
Scare Best
Scare West
Air Wisconsin
Air Whiskey
Dairy Air
'ere We're crashin'
Scare Wisconsin
Air Zaire
Air Peut-être (French: Air Perhaps)
Air scare
Air Zimbabwe
Air Zimbobsled
Alaska
Another Late Arrival, Start Kissing Ass
Alaska Coastal-Ellis
I'll ask a ghost to tell us
ALIA
Always Late In Arrival
ALITALIA
A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude
Airplane Landed In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta
All landed in Turin, All luggage in Athens
Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival
Always Late In Transit Always Late In Arrival
Always Late ITALIAns
Genitalia
Allegheny Airlines (AL)
Agony Airlines
Air Late
Allemaybe
Alligator
Always Late
Allegheny Commuter
Agonizing Commuter
All Nippon Airways (ANA)
Airplane Never Arrives
All fall down Airways
All New Aviators
ALM (Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
Always Late Machine
Aloha Airlines
All over Airlines
Altair Airlines
All scare Airlines
Alyemda
Airborne Lunatic YEMenites Destroying Airplanes
American Airlines (AA)
A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
Abort! Abort!
Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and Nausea
Alcoholics Anonymous
Always Awful
Amateurs Anonymous
American't
Ameriflot
Antique Aircraft
Arrogant A**holes
Atrocious Airways
Sham-erican
American Eagle
Screamin' Eagle
American Trans Air (ATA)
Alcoholics Transporting Alcoholics
All Times Approximate
Always Tardy Airlines
Americans Take Alternatives
American Trash Air
Another Trashed Airline
Arrives Tardy Always
America West Airlines (AWA)
Always Wasting Assets
America Pest
America Worst
Ansett
Aircraft Nosewheel Stuck, Expect Tricky Touchdown
Any New Stewardess Expects Traumatic Temptations
Chance-it
Apache
Arizona Planes Always Crash Horribly & Explode
Aerolinas Peruvianas SA (APSA)
Angry Peruvians Smashing Airplanes
Ariana
Afghans Really Into Always Neglecting Airplanes
Arrow Air
Error Air
Harrowing Scare
Atlantic Coast Airways (ACA)
Another Crappy Airline
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA)
A Sad Airline
Always Stuck in Atlanta
Always Sucks Anytime
America's Sh---iest Airline
America's Sorriest Airline
Another Sorry Airline
Aspen Airways
Crashpen Airways
ATI
Alternative: Take Iberia
Austral
Argentina's Useless Shitty Third Rate Airline
Argentinian Users Shun This Rotten Airline
Austrian Airlines (AUA)
Absolutely Unecessary Airline
Almost Unknown Airline
Aviaco
Airplanes Violently In Awful Crashes Often
Avianca
A Very Inferior And Nasty Colombian Airline
Avinunca
Awful anca
Aviogenex
Aviogen wrecks
B
Bahamasair
By llamas air
Balair
Fallair
Balkan Bulgarian
Broken Bulgarian
Bangladesh Biman
Bangladeath flamin'
Bar Harbor Airlines
Bar Hopper Airlines
Barf Harbor AIrlines
Scar Harbor AIrlines
Big Sky Airlines
Big Scare Airlines
Bonanza Air Lines
Banana Air Lines
Banzai
Braathens SAFE
Braathens UNSAFE
Bratwurst
Braniff Airlines
Bastards Incorporated
Brainless Airlines
Brand-F
Braniff's green 747 = Super Pickle
Braniff's orange 747 = The Great Pumpkin
Chiclet Airlines
Easter Egg Airlines
Pepsi Cola Airlines
Rainbow Airlines
British Air Ferries
British scare Ferries
British Airport Authority (BAA)
Brits Against Aviation
British Airtours
British scaretours
British Airways (BA)
Bad Attitude
Badly Ailing
Best Avoided
Bloody Awful
Bogus Airline
British Aircrimes
British Apoplectic
British Scareways
Broken Aircraft
Brutish Airways
Bully Airways
Conair
British Caledonian (BCAL)
Better Crawl Across Lover
British European Airways (BEA)
Back Every Afternoon
Been ‘Ere Already
Better Eat Afterwards
Bloody Expensive Airline
British Excuse for an Airline
Broken Engines Everywhere
Bugger Everyone About
British Island Airways
Blimey, It's Arrived
British Midland Airways (BMA)
British Mangling Airplanes
British North West Airlines (BNWA)
Bankrupt Next Week – Again!
British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC)
Badly Organized Airways Corporation
Bail Out And Crash
Barely Own Any Clocks
Bend Over Again Christine
Better Off At Caledonian
Better On A Camel
Better On Air Canada
Bloody Old and Careless
Boeing Only Aircraft Club
Book On Another Carrier
Bought On American Credit
Bring Over American Cash
British Overdue Airways Corporation
British Overseas Air Catastrophes
Britain's Only Airborne Circus
Bumping Over African Countryside (after an altimeter-setting incident many moons ago)
British West Indies Airways (BWIA)
Baggage Wandering In Africa
Be Waiting In Airport
Best Women In Air
Better Walk If you're Able
Better Wish It Arrives
Born to Wait In Airports
Bound to Wait In the Airport
Britain's Worst Investment Abroad
But Will It Arrive?
Brittannia Airways
Shit on ya Airways
Brockway Air
Shockway Air
Brymon Airways
Die mon Airways
Business Express, the Delta Connection
Business Distress, the Delta Rejection
C
CAA (UK Civil Aviation Authority)
Campaign Against Aviation
Cameroon Airlines
Become marooned Airlines
No Room Airlines
Canada 3000
Cattlecar 3000
Canadian Airlines International (CAI)
Call Ambulance Immediately
Call Attendants "Idiots"
Cancel Alaskan Itinerary
Casual Atmosphere Inside
Check All Items
Circle Airport Indefinitely
Copilots Are Imbeciles
Crash And Ignite
Cruise Above Iceland
Canadian Pacific Airlines/CP Air (CPA)
Cabbage Patch Airlines
Can’t Predict Arrival
Can't Promise Anything
Completely Penniless And In Receivership
Crashing Planes Air
Sleepy Air
Canjet
Cannedjet
Can't jet
Capital Airlines
Crap it all Airlines
Cargolux
Cargosucks
Cathay Pacific
Crappay Pathetic
Crash in Pacific
CCAir
Crash & Catastrophe Air
Central Airlines
Bentral Airlines
Chautauqua Airlines
Chiquita
Sh** Taco
China Airlines (CA)
China scarelines
Choose Another
Chinese Aviation Airline Company (CAAC)
Cancel At Any Cost
China Airlines Almost (Always) Crashes
Chinese Airline Always Canceled
Civil Air Transport (CAT)
Crashes After Takeoff
Cochise Airlines
No peace Airlines
Comair
CommieAir
Commune Air
Communist Air
Conair
Kamikaze Air
Command Airways
Commando Airways
Conair
Conned air
Condor Flugdienst
Condor Flugdeath
Continental
Can't....Mental
Contemptible
Crapinental
Detrimental
InContinental
The Big Bird with the Brass Ass
(in reference to a golden tailed 60’s paint scheme)
Cordova Airlines
Cart over Airlines
Crossair
Crashair
Cruzeiro do Sul
Crasheiro do Sul
CSA (Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie)
Crappy Service Aboard
Czechs Smashing Airplanes
Cubana
Castro Usually Boards Another National Airline
Crashes Usual Before Arriving at Nearest Airport
Cuburn ya
Cyprus Airways
Try a bus Airways
D
Dan Air
Damn Air
Dan Dare
Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough
Delta
Damaged Engines Limit Takeoff Ability
Darn, Everything Leads To Atlanta
Dazed Executives Leading This Airline
Deliver Everyone's Luggage To Atlanta
Delayed Even Later Then AirTran
Delta Gets You Close (Parody on advertising campaign slogan "Delta Gets You There", after landing at the wrong airport a few times)
Deltoid (The Chicken Flight) Air Lines
Departing Even Later Than Anticipated
Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
Didn't Expect to Land There Anyway
Dirty Exteriors Lack Travellers' Approval
Do Every Little Thing Awkwardly
Do Everything Late To Annoy
Does Eventually Limp To an Airport
Doesn't Ever Leave The Airport
Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
Doing Everything Less Than Average
Don't Even Leave The Airport
Don't Even Let Them Aboard
Don't Ever Land There Again
Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive
Don’t Expect to Leave Terminal Alive
Don’t Expect Luxury Treatment Aboard
Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly
Hell-ta
Melt ya
Delta Connection
Delta Conniption
"We're Learning to Fly and it Shows" (from the Delta slogan: "We love to fly and it shows" )
DHL
Huey, Duey, & Louie
Damaged, Hidden, or Lost
Day and a Half Late
Desperately, Hopelessly Lost
Drop it, Hide it, Lose it
DLT (Deutsche Luftverkehrsgesellschaft )
Dis ist your Last Trip (pronounce with German accent)
E
Eastern
Eastburn Air Lines
Eastern's Always Late
Every Airplane Seems To Explode & wReck Normally
The Wings of Death (from old Eastern slogan "The Wings of Man")
EastWest Airlines
LeastWorst Airlines
Easyjet
Difficultjet
Economy Airline Slows Your Journey Every Time
Queasyjet
Sleazyjet
Squeezyjet
Ecuatoriana
Wreckuatoriana
Egypt Air
Gypped Air
El Al
EverLasting Always Late
Every Landing Always Late
Every Landing Always Lousy
Everyone's Luggage Always Lost
Emirates
Emirats
Enema
English Managed, Indian Run, A Thousand Ex-pats Suffering
Empire Airlines
Impure Airlines
ETOPS (not an airline, but aviation-related nonetheless)
Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim
F
FedEx
Fed up
Foul-ups and Errors in Delivery EXpected
Finnair
Finished air
Finally in Norway, No Airport In Range
Flies Ideally? Nah, Not Airborne In Reality
Flights Into Nomadic Northern Arctic Isolated Regions
Freezing Inside, Not Necessarily Air In Restrooms
Thin air
First Choice Airways
Last Choice Airways
Flying Tigers
Crying Tigers
Frying Tigers
Frontier Airlines
Front in rear Airlines
G
Garuda
Get Another Reservation Unless Dead Already
Get Rooted
Gets Airborne Relying On Divine Assistance
Go And Relax Until Delay Announcement
Good Airline Run Under Dutch Administration
Gruesome (pronounce Gah-ROO-sum) Indonesian
Ghana Airways
Gone Airways
Gibraltar Air (GB Air)
Getting Better Airways
Great Lakes Airlines
Great Mistakes
Great Shakes Airlines
Great Plains Airlines
Flaming Planes Airlines
Gulf Air
Get Used To Late Flights - Aircraft In Repair
Get Used To Late Flights And Incorrect Reservations
Goof Air
Gulp Air
H
Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-destroyed
Hawaiian Airlines
Why are we on Airlines
Henson
Horrible Engines Never Seem to Operate Normally
Horizon
Hair raising
Horizontal
Hughes Airwest
Flying banana (yellow DC-9s)
Hughes Airworst
Huge Aircrash
Huge Scare West
Who's Aircraft?
I
Iberia
I Barely Even Relax In Airplanes
I'll bury ya
It Beats Every Record In Awfulness
It Breaks Every Rule In Aviation
Icelandair (FI)
Fish International
Icelandscare
Imperial Airways
Imperious Airways
Independence Air
Co-dependence Air
Indian Airlines
Indian scarelines
Inex Adria
I wrecks Adria
Interflug
Inter puke
Intermountain
Into the mountain
Iran Air
I ran here
Iraqi Airways
I wrecked it Airways
J
Japan Air Lines (JAL)
Japanese Always Late
Jets Along Lazily
Jittery And Late
Journey Always Late
JAT (Yugoslav Airlines)
Jets Always Tumbling
Joke About Time
Jetblue
Jetblows
Jetsgo
Jets go nowhere
Jets going, going, gone...
Jetsgoat
Jetsgone
Jetsgrounded
JetsNo
Jetstop
Jetstar
Deathstar
Just Expect Terrible Service; They’re Always Rotten
Jetstream Airlines
Jetscream Airlines
JMC Airlines
Just Might Crash
Just More Crap
K
Kenya Airways
Can't ya Airways?
KLM Royal Dutch
Keep Looking Miserable
Keep Luggage Missing
Keeps Losing Money
Kindly Leave Money
KLM Royal Ditch
Knowledge-Less Management
Komische Landungs Metoden (German: Funny ways of landing)
Koop Lockheed Majesteit (Dutch: "Buy Lockheed, Your majesty", after the Lockheed bribe scandal)
Korean Air Lines (KAL)
Careenin' Air Lines
Karate After Lunch
Kuwait Airways
You wait Airways
L
Lake Central Airlines
Shake Central Airlines
Laker
Shaker
LAN-Chile
Lost Airplanes Network
Lots of Airplanes Non-functioning in Chile
Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT)
Land In A Tree
Leaves In Another Terminal
Leaves Island Any Time
Lost In between Antigua and Trinidad
Lucky If Able To
Luggage In Another Timezone
Luggage Is Always Tardy
Luggage Isn't Arriving Today
Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA)
Libyan Airborne Accidents
Linjeflyg
When we die
Loftledir
Lostledir
Long Island Airlines
Long die land Airlines
LOT (Polish Airlines)
Lands Often at Tempelhoff (somehow old nowadays)
Last One There
Leave On a Train
"Look Out, Tower!"
Lots Of Trauma
Lots of Trouble
Luggage On Tarmac
LTU (Luft Transport Union)
Landings Total Us
Lufthansa Training Unit
Lufthansa
Lousy Useless Fliers: They Haven't Any Navigational Systems Aboard
Luftwaffe
Luggage Usually Flown To Hamburg And Never Seen Again
Lusthansa
Luxair
Sucks air
M
Maersk
Many Airplanes Explode; Riders Smashed & Killed
Malaysian Airlines System (MAS)
Malaysian Airplane Smashers
Most Asians Sail
Malev
Many Airplanes Leave; Everyone Vomits
Many Awful Landings Encourages Vomiting
Mall Airways
Sprawl Airways
Merpati
Miserable experience. Routinely pilots are totally incompetent
Mesa Airlines
Maintenance Especially Sucks Airlines
Metrojet
Ghettojet
Jethrojet
Tomatojet
Mexicana
Mexicaca (Caca is spanish for feces)
Wrecksicana
MIAT (Mongolian Airlines)
Maybe I'll Arrive Tomorrow
Middle East Airlines
Monotonous Experience Always
Muddle East Airlines
Midway Airlines
Mayday Airlines
Midair
Midwest Express
Midwest Distress
Midwest Excess
Midworst
Minerve
My nerves!
Mohawk
Schmohawk Airlines
Slow hawk
Monarch Airlines
Bomb ark Airlines
Mid-South Airlines (MSA)
May Still Arrive
MyTravel
MyDelay
N
National Airlines (NA)
Crash ‘em all Airlines
Never Again
Smashional
National Jet
National Joke
Neos
Never, Ever On Schedule
Nigeria Airways
Die Geria Airways
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA)
Notify Coast guard, Alas
Numerous Catastrophes when Airborne
NLM (Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
Numerous Landing Malfunctions
NorOntair
Not in air
North Central Airlines
The Blue Goose (logo)
Northeast Airlines
North least Airlines
Northwest (NWA)
Cobra Airlines (They’ll strike at anything) – reflecting the state of the airline’s unions
Nation's Worst Airline
Neglect With Attitude
Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport
Northworst
Northwaste
Noneworse
Not Wanted Again
Northwest Orient
Northwest Disorient
Northworst Arrogant
O
Olympic
Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash
Orion Airways
Cryin' Airways
Otter Air
Slaughter Air
Overseas National Airways (ONA)
Often Never Arrives
Ozark Air Lines
"krazO" spelled backwards
Noah's ark
Oh jerk
Slowzark
P
Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA)
Planes Never Airborne
Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA)
Paul's Saturday Airline
People Scattered About
Perennially Slow Airlines
Please Send Ambulances
Please Stay Airborne
The cattle car
Pacific Western Airlines (PWA)
Panic West Airlines
Pete's Wobbly Airline
Piddly Widdly Airline
Piggly Wiggly Airlines
Please Wait Awhile
Poor Willy Airlines
Pray Whilst Aloft
Probably Won’t Arrive
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
Pain In the Ass
Panic In Air
Passenger's Illegal Abductor
Pay Insurance Ahead
Perhaps I arrive
"Please, I ate"
Pray Inform Allah
Pan Am
Pan slam
PAinful, Nauseating And Miserable
Pandemonium
Passengers Always Need A Mortician
Passengers Always Neglected At Mealtimes
Passengers Always Nervous And Mad
Pathetic And Nasty And Mean
Pathetic And Nonsensical Aircraft Maintenance
Pilots Are Not A Must
Pilots Are Nuts, Attendants Maybe
Plan On Arriving Nervewracked And Mad
Poor Airline Needs Any Money
Probably Another Night At the Moon
We have killed more people on more continents than any other airline!
People Express
Cattle Express
Feeble Express
People Compress
People Depress
People Distress
PEOPLES' EXPRESS (pronounce in a revolutionary tone)
Red Army Express
Philippine Airlines (PAL)
Philippines Always Late
Plane Always Late
Please Avoid
Piedmont Airlines
Peatmoss Airlines
Peed m' pants Airlines
Piedmonster
Pilgrim Airlines
Kill grim Airlines
Planes Inspected Lazily by Grass-smoking, Really Incompetent Mechanics
Pinnacle Airlines
Pinch Nickel Airlines
Precision Airlines
Incision Airlines
Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA)
Planes Broken All over
Q
QANTAS
Quaint Arse
Queasy and Nauseous, Tired And Sick
Queers And Nasty Types As Stewards
Queers And Nymphomaniacs Trained As Stewards
Quell All Nice Thoughts About Survival
Quick And Nasty Transportation, Australian Style
Quit Always Neglecting The Airplane, Stupid
Quite A Neat Trick, Arriving Safely
Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?
Quite Another Thing to Arrive Safely
Quits Air-travel, Next Time Approaches Ship
Queen Charlotte Airlines (QCA)
Queer Collection of Aircraft
R
Ransome Airlines
(this airline doesn't NEED a nickname)
Reeve Aleutian
Real confusion
Reno Air
Rarely Early, Never On Time, Always In Repair
Reno Scare
Republic Airlines
Repugnant Airlines
Repulsive Airlines
Rocky Mountain Airways
Bloody Fountain Airways
Rocky Mountain Scareways
Royal Airlines
Rarely organized-you're always late
Screwed Royally
Royal Air Maroc
Read Airplane Manual
Royal Air Shock
Runways Always Missed
Royal Jordanian
Air Jordan
Ryanair
Cryin’ Air
Eireoflot
Lyin’ Air
Micky O'Leary's F*ck You Airways
Ruin Air
Running Your Ailing National Airline Into Receivership
S
Sabena
Select A Better European National Airline
Such A Bad Experience, Never Again
Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again
SAHSA (Servicio Aero de Honduras SA)
Stay At Home, Stay Alive
Saudia
Saudi Airlines Underhand Deals Include Alcohol
Slaughteria
Scandinavian Airline System (SAS)
Same As Sabena
Service After Sex
Sex Always Supplied
Sex And Satisfaction
Sex And Service
Sex and Smorgasbord
Sexy A** Stewardess
Silly and Stupid
Sit And Suffer
Slow And Safe
SOS
Stays At the Surface
Striking Airline Systems
Sweet And Sexy
Swim and Smile
Shuttle-by-United
Cattle-by-United
Scuttle by United
Singapore Airlines (SIA)
Sex In the Air
Sick In Air
Singapore Imitates America
Sing no more Airlines
So Incredible Aah
Skybus
Skybust
Skyservice
Skynervous
Skyways
Die ways
SkyWest Airlines
ScareWorst
SkyWorst Airlines
SMB
Should've landed in Missouri, not Brazil
Sobelair
Sober air (rarely)
Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín (SAM)
Súbase, Amárrese, y Mátese (Spanish: get on board, strap yourself in, and kill yourself)
Song Airways
Same Old Nasty Girls
Thong Airways
South African Airways/Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAA/SAL)
Service An Afterthought
Skyborne Apartheid Always
Sold All Assets
Sommer Altyd Laat (Afrikaans: Pretty Much Always Late)
South Central Air
South Central Scare
Southern Airways
South burn Airways
Southwest Airlines (SWA)
Greyhound Air
Should We Abort?
Southwaste
Southwimps
Southworst Airlines
The Ghetto Express
Spantax
Spandex
Spirit
Fear It
Sterling Airways
Burning Airways
Sun Country
Scum Country
Swiss
So What, It's Still Swissair
Swissair
Sexy Women In Swissair Service Are Incredibly Raunchy
Sexy Woman In Swissair Service Are Indeed Rare
Syrian Air
Serious scare
T
TAAG Angola Airlines
Targeted by Anti-Aircraft Gunners
Troubled Airplanes Always Grounded
TAM (Transportes Aéreos Marília)
Terror Aéreo Mundial (Portugese: worldwide airborne terror)
Todos A bordo Morrerão (Portugese: all on board will die)
Transportes Aéreos Malditos (Portugese: Cursed air transportation)
Tudo Acaba Mal (Portugese: everything goes badly)
Tango (Air Canada)
That's All, Now Get Off!
TAP Air Portugal
Take A Parachute
Take A Pill
Take A Propjet
Take Another Plane
Tamancos Aereos Portugueses
(Portuguese Flying Wooden Shoes)
TAPs
Try A Pilot
TAROM
Those Awful Russian-Operated Machines
Try to Avoid this Russian-Organized Mess
Touraine Air Transport (TAT)
Take A Train
TED
Tardy Every Day
Texas Air
Wrecks us Air
Texas International Airways (Formerly Trans Texas Airways)
Travel In Agony
Thai Airways
Cry Airways
THY Turkish Airlines
They Hate You
Try Hijacking Yourself
Time Air
Slime Air
TNT
Tomorrow, Not Tonight
TOA
Take-Off Aborted
Taxi Off Airstrip
TOrA, TOrA, TOrA!
Tower Air
Take Off Without Essential Repair
Transamerica
Transamericrash
Trans Australia Airlines (TAA)
Ta Ta's
Take Another Airline
Travel Ansett Always
Transavia Holland
Can't save ya Holland
Transbrazil
TransbraKill
Trans Canada Airlines (TCA)
Tin Can Airlines
Turboprops Crashing on Arrival
Transcontinental and Western Airlines, later Trans-World Airlines (TWA)
Tacky Wacky Airlines
Take Weapons Aboard
Take Whatever's Available
Tammy Wynette Airlines
Teeny Weeny Airlines
Terrible Worst Airlines
Terrorists' Wanted Airlines
Terrorists Welcome Aboard
Terrorists Will Attack
Terrorists With AK-47s
Terrorists With Arms
That Was Accidental
That Was Awful
Thieves, Whores and Alcoholics
Thousands Wandering Aimlessly
TightWad Airlines
Time Wasting Airline
Tiny Wings A-flappin'!!!!!
That Was Accidental
The Worst Airline
Today's Worst Airline
Tomorrow We'll Arrive
Tomorrow's Widebody Accident
Took Wrong Airline
Top Whop Aboard
Totally Wasted Airlines
Touch Wood Again
Trans Witch Airlines
Travel With Amal
Travel With American
Travel With Arabs
Travel Without Arrival
Travelling With Angels
Traveling Without Air
Trembling Wings Airlines
Trolleys Without Airconditioning
Trouble, Worry, and Aggravation
Try Waiting Awhile
Try Walking Across (transoceanic perspective)
Try Western Airlines
Try With Another
Twenty Wobbly Airplanes
Trans European Airlines (TEA)
Turbojets Exploding on Arrival
Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) (Not an airline, but still relevant)
Take Scissors Away
Thousands Standing Around
Transportes Aereos Centro-Americanos (TACA)
Take A Chance Airlines
Take A Coffin Along
Take Another Carrier Amigo
Tenemos Accidente Cada Año (Spanish: We have an accident every year)
Tragedias Aéreas Centro Américanas.
Tres Accidentes Cada Año (Spanish: Three accidents each year)
Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda
Transportes Aereos Da Bacia Amazonica (TABA)
Take A Bus Always
Taxi Along Back Alleys
Transportes Aereos Nacionales (TAN)
TAke off? Never!
Trans Texas Airways (TTA)
Teeter-Totter Airways
Texas Threat to Aviation
Tinker Toys Airways
Too Tardy Airways
Tree Top Airlines
Try to Take an Automobile
U
Union de Transports Aeriens (UTA)
Unable To Ascend
Under the Atlantic
Unlikely To Arrive
United (UA/UAL)
Ignited
Spewnited
U Again?
U Ain’t Leaving
U Always Late
Undeniably Awful
U Need Insurance That Exempts Death
U Never Intend to Expedite Delivery
U Never Intended To Eat Didya
Untied
Untidy
Unusually Awful Landings
Ur Not Intended To Ever Depart
Usually Always Late
Usually No Idea (of) Time Estimated Departure
Usually Not Inclined To Eliminate Disasters
UPS (United Parcel Service)
Oops
United Parcel Smashers
USAir
Underwater Seats Available In Rear
Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality
US err
US Flare
US Prayer
US Scare
Useless Air
Usually Stewardesses Are Irrationally Romantic
US Airways
US Deathways
Useless Airways
V
ValuJet
Cheap A** Airways
Crispy Critter
JunkJet
VARIG
Very Arrogant Rogues In General
Vomit At Regular Intervals Gracefully
Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo (VASP)
Viasao Aereo Sem Preca (Portugese: Airline without a time schedule)
VIASA (Venezolana Internacional de Aviación, Sociedad Anónima)
Vomit In A Sack Always
Virgin
Very Interesting Ride: Going Into Nymphos
Virgin Atlantic
Burn in Atlantic
Virgin Blue
Vermin Blue
VLM (Vlaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
Very Little Maintenance
W
Wapiti Aviation
Whop A Tree Aviation
Wardair
Wart Air
Westair Commuter Airlines (WCA)
We Crash A lot
Western Airlines (WAL)
Western's Always Late
Worst Airlines
Worrisome Airlines
Western Pacific
Western Pathetic
Westjet
Pestjet
Worstjet
Wien Alaska Airlines
Weird Alaska Airlines
Windward Island Airways (WIA)
Whenever It Arrives
World Airways
We Organize Really Long Delays
Weird Airways
Worldways
We Organize Really Long Delays: Wait Around, You'll See
Wright Airlines
Wrong Airlines
Z
Zambia Airways
Zombia Airwa
However, I'm always interested in new items for the list. I'm also interested in more non-english nicknames for the list -- as long as they come with translations!
Without further ado, here is the fairly comprehensive list of airline nicknames:
A
Aer Lingus
Air Fungus
Arousing Erotic Randy Ladies In Nice Green Uniform Suits
Aermediterranea
Aermediterroranea
Aeroflot
Accidents Expected Regularly On F*cking Lethal Old Tupolevs
Aeroflop
Aeroflotsam
Aerosplat
Aircraft Everywhere Run On Fuel Left Over by Tanks
Airline Every Russian Or Foreigner Leaves on Terrified
Almost Everyone Retches Once Finished Landing On This
Ancient Engines, Really Old Fleet, Lots Of Trouble
An Exciting Russian Offer For Lashings Of Terror
AwfulLot
the bus
Cosmoplot
Scareoflot
Aeromexico
AeroMaybe
AeroMiedo (Spanish: AirScare)
Aerowrecksico
Aeronaves de Mexico
AeroNervous
Aero Peru
Aero P.U.
Aero Puree
Aeroperhaps
Aero Virgin Airlines
Aero burnin' Airlines
Air Afrique
Air Freak(out)
Air Tragique
Air Atlantique
Air Antique
Air Frantic
Air BC
Air Bash & Crash
Air Burn & Crash
Scare BC
AirCal
AirCrawl
Airkill
Scare Cal
Air Cambodia
Air forbodia
Air Canada (AC)
Air Cannibal
Air Cannibis
Air Can't...uh...duh...
Air Cattle Car
Air Chaos
Air Crappy
Always Crappy
Err Canada
Mapleflot
Scare Canada
Trash Can
Air Charter International (ACI)
Air Crash International
Always Crashing In flames
Air Florida
Air Florideath
Air France
Air Chance
Air Delay
Air Dirt
Air Frogs
An International Reputation For Rude and Non Caring Employees
Air Gabon
Air Go Down
Air Illinois
Air what's that noise?
Scare Illinois
Air India (AI)
Airplanes In Repo In Nigeria, Delay Inevitable Anyway
Allah Informed
Always Indefinite
After I Return, I’ll Never do It Again
Air Inuit
Air Imaha (Inuktitut: Air Maybe)
Air Jamaica
Air Jerks kill ya
Air Jammin'
Air Lanka (UL)
Air Clunker
Always Intended Return to Land And Not Kill Anyone
Usually Late
Air Malta
Air Melt ya
Always In Repair May All Learners Take Advantage
Air Mauritius
Air Murderous
Air Midwest
Air Mudwest
Air New England
Scare No Engines
Air New York
Air New jerk
Air New Zealand
Air No wheels land
Air Of Vermont
Air Of Vomit
Air Ontario
Scare Ontario
Air Pacific
Air Pacifwreck
AirTran
Air Transvestite
Air Trash
Atlanta Is Ready To Re-route Arriving Narrowbodies
ScareTran
Air Transat
Air Transient
Air Trashcan
Air UK
Air yuck
Air West
Air Worst
Scare Best
Scare West
Air Wisconsin
Air Whiskey
Dairy Air
'ere We're crashin'
Scare Wisconsin
Air Zaire
Air Peut-être (French: Air Perhaps)
Air scare
Air Zimbabwe
Air Zimbobsled
Alaska
Another Late Arrival, Start Kissing Ass
Alaska Coastal-Ellis
I'll ask a ghost to tell us
ALIA
Always Late In Arrival
ALITALIA
A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude
Airplane Landed In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta
All landed in Turin, All luggage in Athens
Always Late In Takeoff Always Late In Arrival
Always Late In Transit Always Late In Arrival
Always Late ITALIAns
Genitalia
Allegheny Airlines (AL)
Agony Airlines
Air Late
Allemaybe
Alligator
Always Late
Allegheny Commuter
Agonizing Commuter
All Nippon Airways (ANA)
Airplane Never Arrives
All fall down Airways
All New Aviators
ALM (Antilliaanse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
Always Late Machine
Aloha Airlines
All over Airlines
Altair Airlines
All scare Airlines
Alyemda
Airborne Lunatic YEMenites Destroying Airplanes
American Airlines (AA)
A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
Abort! Abort!
Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and Nausea
Alcoholics Anonymous
Always Awful
Amateurs Anonymous
American't
Ameriflot
Antique Aircraft
Arrogant A**holes
Atrocious Airways
Sham-erican
American Eagle
Screamin' Eagle
American Trans Air (ATA)
Alcoholics Transporting Alcoholics
All Times Approximate
Always Tardy Airlines
Americans Take Alternatives
American Trash Air
Another Trashed Airline
Arrives Tardy Always
America West Airlines (AWA)
Always Wasting Assets
America Pest
America Worst
Ansett
Aircraft Nosewheel Stuck, Expect Tricky Touchdown
Any New Stewardess Expects Traumatic Temptations
Chance-it
Apache
Arizona Planes Always Crash Horribly & Explode
Aerolinas Peruvianas SA (APSA)
Angry Peruvians Smashing Airplanes
Ariana
Afghans Really Into Always Neglecting Airplanes
Arrow Air
Error Air
Harrowing Scare
Atlantic Coast Airways (ACA)
Another Crappy Airline
Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA)
A Sad Airline
Always Stuck in Atlanta
Always Sucks Anytime
America's Sh---iest Airline
America's Sorriest Airline
Another Sorry Airline
Aspen Airways
Crashpen Airways
ATI
Alternative: Take Iberia
Austral
Argentina's Useless Shitty Third Rate Airline
Argentinian Users Shun This Rotten Airline
Austrian Airlines (AUA)
Absolutely Unecessary Airline
Almost Unknown Airline
Aviaco
Airplanes Violently In Awful Crashes Often
Avianca
A Very Inferior And Nasty Colombian Airline
Avinunca
Awful anca
Aviogenex
Aviogen wrecks
B
Bahamasair
By llamas air
Balair
Fallair
Balkan Bulgarian
Broken Bulgarian
Bangladesh Biman
Bangladeath flamin'
Bar Harbor Airlines
Bar Hopper Airlines
Barf Harbor AIrlines
Scar Harbor AIrlines
Big Sky Airlines
Big Scare Airlines
Bonanza Air Lines
Banana Air Lines
Banzai
Braathens SAFE
Braathens UNSAFE
Bratwurst
Braniff Airlines
Bastards Incorporated
Brainless Airlines
Brand-F
Braniff's green 747 = Super Pickle
Braniff's orange 747 = The Great Pumpkin
Chiclet Airlines
Easter Egg Airlines
Pepsi Cola Airlines
Rainbow Airlines
British Air Ferries
British scare Ferries
British Airport Authority (BAA)
Brits Against Aviation
British Airtours
British scaretours
British Airways (BA)
Bad Attitude
Badly Ailing
Best Avoided
Bloody Awful
Bogus Airline
British Aircrimes
British Apoplectic
British Scareways
Broken Aircraft
Brutish Airways
Bully Airways
Conair
British Caledonian (BCAL)
Better Crawl Across Lover
British European Airways (BEA)
Back Every Afternoon
Been ‘Ere Already
Better Eat Afterwards
Bloody Expensive Airline
British Excuse for an Airline
Broken Engines Everywhere
Bugger Everyone About
British Island Airways
Blimey, It's Arrived
British Midland Airways (BMA)
British Mangling Airplanes
British North West Airlines (BNWA)
Bankrupt Next Week – Again!
British Overseas Airways Corp. (BOAC)
Badly Organized Airways Corporation
Bail Out And Crash
Barely Own Any Clocks
Bend Over Again Christine
Better Off At Caledonian
Better On A Camel
Better On Air Canada
Bloody Old and Careless
Boeing Only Aircraft Club
Book On Another Carrier
Bought On American Credit
Bring Over American Cash
British Overdue Airways Corporation
British Overseas Air Catastrophes
Britain's Only Airborne Circus
Bumping Over African Countryside (after an altimeter-setting incident many moons ago)
British West Indies Airways (BWIA)
Baggage Wandering In Africa
Be Waiting In Airport
Best Women In Air
Better Walk If you're Able
Better Wish It Arrives
Born to Wait In Airports
Bound to Wait In the Airport
Britain's Worst Investment Abroad
But Will It Arrive?
Brittannia Airways
Shit on ya Airways
Brockway Air
Shockway Air
Brymon Airways
Die mon Airways
Business Express, the Delta Connection
Business Distress, the Delta Rejection
C
CAA (UK Civil Aviation Authority)
Campaign Against Aviation
Cameroon Airlines
Become marooned Airlines
No Room Airlines
Canada 3000
Cattlecar 3000
Canadian Airlines International (CAI)
Call Ambulance Immediately
Call Attendants "Idiots"
Cancel Alaskan Itinerary
Casual Atmosphere Inside
Check All Items
Circle Airport Indefinitely
Copilots Are Imbeciles
Crash And Ignite
Cruise Above Iceland
Canadian Pacific Airlines/CP Air (CPA)
Cabbage Patch Airlines
Can’t Predict Arrival
Can't Promise Anything
Completely Penniless And In Receivership
Crashing Planes Air
Sleepy Air
Canjet
Cannedjet
Can't jet
Capital Airlines
Crap it all Airlines
Cargolux
Cargosucks
Cathay Pacific
Crappay Pathetic
Crash in Pacific
CCAir
Crash & Catastrophe Air
Central Airlines
Bentral Airlines
Chautauqua Airlines
Chiquita
Sh** Taco
China Airlines (CA)
China scarelines
Choose Another
Chinese Aviation Airline Company (CAAC)
Cancel At Any Cost
China Airlines Almost (Always) Crashes
Chinese Airline Always Canceled
Civil Air Transport (CAT)
Crashes After Takeoff
Cochise Airlines
No peace Airlines
Comair
CommieAir
Commune Air
Communist Air
Conair
Kamikaze Air
Command Airways
Commando Airways
Conair
Conned air
Condor Flugdienst
Condor Flugdeath
Continental
Can't....Mental
Contemptible
Crapinental
Detrimental
InContinental
The Big Bird with the Brass Ass
(in reference to a golden tailed 60’s paint scheme)
Cordova Airlines
Cart over Airlines
Crossair
Crashair
Cruzeiro do Sul
Crasheiro do Sul
CSA (Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie)
Crappy Service Aboard
Czechs Smashing Airplanes
Cubana
Castro Usually Boards Another National Airline
Crashes Usual Before Arriving at Nearest Airport
Cuburn ya
Cyprus Airways
Try a bus Airways
D
Dan Air
Damn Air
Dan Dare
Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough
Delta
Damaged Engines Limit Takeoff Ability
Darn, Everything Leads To Atlanta
Dazed Executives Leading This Airline
Deliver Everyone's Luggage To Atlanta
Delayed Even Later Then AirTran
Delta Gets You Close (Parody on advertising campaign slogan "Delta Gets You There", after landing at the wrong airport a few times)
Deltoid (The Chicken Flight) Air Lines
Departing Even Later Than Anticipated
Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
Didn't Expect to Land There Anyway
Dirty Exteriors Lack Travellers' Approval
Do Every Little Thing Awkwardly
Do Everything Late To Annoy
Does Eventually Limp To an Airport
Doesn't Ever Leave The Airport
Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
Doing Everything Less Than Average
Don't Even Leave The Airport
Don't Even Let Them Aboard
Don't Ever Land There Again
Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive
Don’t Expect to Leave Terminal Alive
Don’t Expect Luxury Treatment Aboard
Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly
Hell-ta
Melt ya
Delta Connection
Delta Conniption
"We're Learning to Fly and it Shows" (from the Delta slogan: "We love to fly and it shows" )
DHL
Huey, Duey, & Louie
Damaged, Hidden, or Lost
Day and a Half Late
Desperately, Hopelessly Lost
Drop it, Hide it, Lose it
DLT (Deutsche Luftverkehrsgesellschaft )
Dis ist your Last Trip (pronounce with German accent)
E
Eastern
Eastburn Air Lines
Eastern's Always Late
Every Airplane Seems To Explode & wReck Normally
The Wings of Death (from old Eastern slogan "The Wings of Man")
EastWest Airlines
LeastWorst Airlines
Easyjet
Difficultjet
Economy Airline Slows Your Journey Every Time
Queasyjet
Sleazyjet
Squeezyjet
Ecuatoriana
Wreckuatoriana
Egypt Air
Gypped Air
El Al
EverLasting Always Late
Every Landing Always Late
Every Landing Always Lousy
Everyone's Luggage Always Lost
Emirates
Emirats
Enema
English Managed, Indian Run, A Thousand Ex-pats Suffering
Empire Airlines
Impure Airlines
ETOPS (not an airline, but aviation-related nonetheless)
Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim
F
FedEx
Fed up
Foul-ups and Errors in Delivery EXpected
Finnair
Finished air
Finally in Norway, No Airport In Range
Flies Ideally? Nah, Not Airborne In Reality
Flights Into Nomadic Northern Arctic Isolated Regions
Freezing Inside, Not Necessarily Air In Restrooms
Thin air
First Choice Airways
Last Choice Airways
Flying Tigers
Crying Tigers
Frying Tigers
Frontier Airlines
Front in rear Airlines
G
Garuda
Get Another Reservation Unless Dead Already
Get Rooted
Gets Airborne Relying On Divine Assistance
Go And Relax Until Delay Announcement
Good Airline Run Under Dutch Administration
Gruesome (pronounce Gah-ROO-sum) Indonesian
Ghana Airways
Gone Airways
Gibraltar Air (GB Air)
Getting Better Airways
Great Lakes Airlines
Great Mistakes
Great Shakes Airlines
Great Plains Airlines
Flaming Planes Airlines
Gulf Air
Get Used To Late Flights - Aircraft In Repair
Get Used To Late Flights And Incorrect Reservations
Goof Air
Gulp Air
H
Hapag-Lloyd
Hapag-destroyed
Hawaiian Airlines
Why are we on Airlines
Henson
Horrible Engines Never Seem to Operate Normally
Horizon
Hair raising
Horizontal
Hughes Airwest
Flying banana (yellow DC-9s)
Hughes Airworst
Huge Aircrash
Huge Scare West
Who's Aircraft?
I
Iberia
I Barely Even Relax In Airplanes
I'll bury ya
It Beats Every Record In Awfulness
It Breaks Every Rule In Aviation
Icelandair (FI)
Fish International
Icelandscare
Imperial Airways
Imperious Airways
Independence Air
Co-dependence Air
Indian Airlines
Indian scarelines
Inex Adria
I wrecks Adria
Interflug
Inter puke
Intermountain
Into the mountain
Iran Air
I ran here
Iraqi Airways
I wrecked it Airways
J
Japan Air Lines (JAL)
Japanese Always Late
Jets Along Lazily
Jittery And Late
Journey Always Late
JAT (Yugoslav Airlines)
Jets Always Tumbling
Joke About Time
Jetblue
Jetblows
Jetsgo
Jets go nowhere
Jets going, going, gone...
Jetsgoat
Jetsgone
Jetsgrounded
JetsNo
Jetstop
Jetstar
Deathstar
Just Expect Terrible Service; They’re Always Rotten
Jetstream Airlines
Jetscream Airlines
JMC Airlines
Just Might Crash
Just More Crap
K
Kenya Airways
Can't ya Airways?
KLM Royal Dutch
Keep Looking Miserable
Keep Luggage Missing
Keeps Losing Money
Kindly Leave Money
KLM Royal Ditch
Knowledge-Less Management
Komische Landungs Metoden (German: Funny ways of landing)
Koop Lockheed Majesteit (Dutch: "Buy Lockheed, Your majesty", after the Lockheed bribe scandal)
Korean Air Lines (KAL)
Careenin' Air Lines
Karate After Lunch
Kuwait Airways
You wait Airways
L
Lake Central Airlines
Shake Central Airlines
Laker
Shaker
LAN-Chile
Lost Airplanes Network
Lots of Airplanes Non-functioning in Chile
Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT)
Land In A Tree
Leaves In Another Terminal
Leaves Island Any Time
Lost In between Antigua and Trinidad
Lucky If Able To
Luggage In Another Timezone
Luggage Is Always Tardy
Luggage Isn't Arriving Today
Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA)
Libyan Airborne Accidents
Linjeflyg
When we die
Loftledir
Lostledir
Long Island Airlines
Long die land Airlines
LOT (Polish Airlines)
Lands Often at Tempelhoff (somehow old nowadays)
Last One There
Leave On a Train
"Look Out, Tower!"
Lots Of Trauma
Lots of Trouble
Luggage On Tarmac
LTU (Luft Transport Union)
Landings Total Us
Lufthansa Training Unit
Lufthansa
Lousy Useless Fliers: They Haven't Any Navigational Systems Aboard
Luftwaffe
Luggage Usually Flown To Hamburg And Never Seen Again
Lusthansa
Luxair
Sucks air
M
Maersk
Many Airplanes Explode; Riders Smashed & Killed
Malaysian Airlines System (MAS)
Malaysian Airplane Smashers
Most Asians Sail
Malev
Many Airplanes Leave; Everyone Vomits
Many Awful Landings Encourages Vomiting
Mall Airways
Sprawl Airways
Merpati
Miserable experience. Routinely pilots are totally incompetent
Mesa Airlines
Maintenance Especially Sucks Airlines
Metrojet
Ghettojet
Jethrojet
Tomatojet
Mexicana
Mexicaca (Caca is spanish for feces)
Wrecksicana
MIAT (Mongolian Airlines)
Maybe I'll Arrive Tomorrow
Middle East Airlines
Monotonous Experience Always
Muddle East Airlines
Midway Airlines
Mayday Airlines
Midair
Midwest Express
Midwest Distress
Midwest Excess
Midworst
Minerve
My nerves!
Mohawk
Schmohawk Airlines
Slow hawk
Monarch Airlines
Bomb ark Airlines
Mid-South Airlines (MSA)
May Still Arrive
MyTravel
MyDelay
N
National Airlines (NA)
Crash ‘em all Airlines
Never Again
Smashional
National Jet
National Joke
Neos
Never, Ever On Schedule
Nigeria Airways
Die Geria Airways
Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA)
Notify Coast guard, Alas
Numerous Catastrophes when Airborne
NLM (Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
Numerous Landing Malfunctions
NorOntair
Not in air
North Central Airlines
The Blue Goose (logo)
Northeast Airlines
North least Airlines
Northwest (NWA)
Cobra Airlines (They’ll strike at anything) – reflecting the state of the airline’s unions
Nation's Worst Airline
Neglect With Attitude
Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless, Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport
Northworst
Northwaste
Noneworse
Not Wanted Again
Northwest Orient
Northwest Disorient
Northworst Arrogant
O
Olympic
Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash
Orion Airways
Cryin' Airways
Otter Air
Slaughter Air
Overseas National Airways (ONA)
Often Never Arrives
Ozark Air Lines
"krazO" spelled backwards
Noah's ark
Oh jerk
Slowzark
P
Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA)
Planes Never Airborne
Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA)
Paul's Saturday Airline
People Scattered About
Perennially Slow Airlines
Please Send Ambulances
Please Stay Airborne
The cattle car
Pacific Western Airlines (PWA)
Panic West Airlines
Pete's Wobbly Airline
Piddly Widdly Airline
Piggly Wiggly Airlines
Please Wait Awhile
Poor Willy Airlines
Pray Whilst Aloft
Probably Won’t Arrive
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
Pain In the Ass
Panic In Air
Passenger's Illegal Abductor
Pay Insurance Ahead
Perhaps I arrive
"Please, I ate"
Pray Inform Allah
Pan Am
Pan slam
PAinful, Nauseating And Miserable
Pandemonium
Passengers Always Need A Mortician
Passengers Always Neglected At Mealtimes
Passengers Always Nervous And Mad
Pathetic And Nasty And Mean
Pathetic And Nonsensical Aircraft Maintenance
Pilots Are Not A Must
Pilots Are Nuts, Attendants Maybe
Plan On Arriving Nervewracked And Mad
Poor Airline Needs Any Money
Probably Another Night At the Moon
We have killed more people on more continents than any other airline!
People Express
Cattle Express
Feeble Express
People Compress
People Depress
People Distress
PEOPLES' EXPRESS (pronounce in a revolutionary tone)
Red Army Express
Philippine Airlines (PAL)
Philippines Always Late
Plane Always Late
Please Avoid
Piedmont Airlines
Peatmoss Airlines
Peed m' pants Airlines
Piedmonster
Pilgrim Airlines
Kill grim Airlines
Planes Inspected Lazily by Grass-smoking, Really Incompetent Mechanics
Pinnacle Airlines
Pinch Nickel Airlines
Precision Airlines
Incision Airlines
Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA)
Planes Broken All over
Q
QANTAS
Quaint Arse
Queasy and Nauseous, Tired And Sick
Queers And Nasty Types As Stewards
Queers And Nymphomaniacs Trained As Stewards
Quell All Nice Thoughts About Survival
Quick And Nasty Transportation, Australian Style
Quit Always Neglecting The Airplane, Stupid
Quite A Neat Trick, Arriving Safely
Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?
Quite Another Thing to Arrive Safely
Quits Air-travel, Next Time Approaches Ship
Queen Charlotte Airlines (QCA)
Queer Collection of Aircraft
R
Ransome Airlines
(this airline doesn't NEED a nickname)
Reeve Aleutian
Real confusion
Reno Air
Rarely Early, Never On Time, Always In Repair
Reno Scare
Republic Airlines
Repugnant Airlines
Repulsive Airlines
Rocky Mountain Airways
Bloody Fountain Airways
Rocky Mountain Scareways
Royal Airlines
Rarely organized-you're always late
Screwed Royally
Royal Air Maroc
Read Airplane Manual
Royal Air Shock
Runways Always Missed
Royal Jordanian
Air Jordan
Ryanair
Cryin’ Air
Eireoflot
Lyin’ Air
Micky O'Leary's F*ck You Airways
Ruin Air
Running Your Ailing National Airline Into Receivership
S
Sabena
Select A Better European National Airline
Such A Bad Experience, Never Again
Such A Bloody Experience, Never Again
SAHSA (Servicio Aero de Honduras SA)
Stay At Home, Stay Alive
Saudia
Saudi Airlines Underhand Deals Include Alcohol
Slaughteria
Scandinavian Airline System (SAS)
Same As Sabena
Service After Sex
Sex Always Supplied
Sex And Satisfaction
Sex And Service
Sex and Smorgasbord
Sexy A** Stewardess
Silly and Stupid
Sit And Suffer
Slow And Safe
SOS
Stays At the Surface
Striking Airline Systems
Sweet And Sexy
Swim and Smile
Shuttle-by-United
Cattle-by-United
Scuttle by United
Singapore Airlines (SIA)
Sex In the Air
Sick In Air
Singapore Imitates America
Sing no more Airlines
So Incredible Aah
Skybus
Skybust
Skyservice
Skynervous
Skyways
Die ways
SkyWest Airlines
ScareWorst
SkyWorst Airlines
SMB
Should've landed in Missouri, not Brazil
Sobelair
Sober air (rarely)
Sociedad Aeronáutica de Medellín (SAM)
Súbase, Amárrese, y Mátese (Spanish: get on board, strap yourself in, and kill yourself)
Song Airways
Same Old Nasty Girls
Thong Airways
South African Airways/Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens (SAA/SAL)
Service An Afterthought
Skyborne Apartheid Always
Sold All Assets
Sommer Altyd Laat (Afrikaans: Pretty Much Always Late)
South Central Air
South Central Scare
Southern Airways
South burn Airways
Southwest Airlines (SWA)
Greyhound Air
Should We Abort?
Southwaste
Southwimps
Southworst Airlines
The Ghetto Express
Spantax
Spandex
Spirit
Fear It
Sterling Airways
Burning Airways
Sun Country
Scum Country
Swiss
So What, It's Still Swissair
Swissair
Sexy Women In Swissair Service Are Incredibly Raunchy
Sexy Woman In Swissair Service Are Indeed Rare
Syrian Air
Serious scare
T
TAAG Angola Airlines
Targeted by Anti-Aircraft Gunners
Troubled Airplanes Always Grounded
TAM (Transportes Aéreos Marília)
Terror Aéreo Mundial (Portugese: worldwide airborne terror)
Todos A bordo Morrerão (Portugese: all on board will die)
Transportes Aéreos Malditos (Portugese: Cursed air transportation)
Tudo Acaba Mal (Portugese: everything goes badly)
Tango (Air Canada)
That's All, Now Get Off!
TAP Air Portugal
Take A Parachute
Take A Pill
Take A Propjet
Take Another Plane
Tamancos Aereos Portugueses
(Portuguese Flying Wooden Shoes)
TAPs
Try A Pilot
TAROM
Those Awful Russian-Operated Machines
Try to Avoid this Russian-Organized Mess
Touraine Air Transport (TAT)
Take A Train
TED
Tardy Every Day
Texas Air
Wrecks us Air
Texas International Airways (Formerly Trans Texas Airways)
Travel In Agony
Thai Airways
Cry Airways
THY Turkish Airlines
They Hate You
Try Hijacking Yourself
Time Air
Slime Air
TNT
Tomorrow, Not Tonight
TOA
Take-Off Aborted
Taxi Off Airstrip
TOrA, TOrA, TOrA!
Tower Air
Take Off Without Essential Repair
Transamerica
Transamericrash
Trans Australia Airlines (TAA)
Ta Ta's
Take Another Airline
Travel Ansett Always
Transavia Holland
Can't save ya Holland
Transbrazil
TransbraKill
Trans Canada Airlines (TCA)
Tin Can Airlines
Turboprops Crashing on Arrival
Transcontinental and Western Airlines, later Trans-World Airlines (TWA)
Tacky Wacky Airlines
Take Weapons Aboard
Take Whatever's Available
Tammy Wynette Airlines
Teeny Weeny Airlines
Terrible Worst Airlines
Terrorists' Wanted Airlines
Terrorists Welcome Aboard
Terrorists Will Attack
Terrorists With AK-47s
Terrorists With Arms
That Was Accidental
That Was Awful
Thieves, Whores and Alcoholics
Thousands Wandering Aimlessly
TightWad Airlines
Time Wasting Airline
Tiny Wings A-flappin'!!!!!
That Was Accidental
The Worst Airline
Today's Worst Airline
Tomorrow We'll Arrive
Tomorrow's Widebody Accident
Took Wrong Airline
Top Whop Aboard
Totally Wasted Airlines
Touch Wood Again
Trans Witch Airlines
Travel With Amal
Travel With American
Travel With Arabs
Travel Without Arrival
Travelling With Angels
Traveling Without Air
Trembling Wings Airlines
Trolleys Without Airconditioning
Trouble, Worry, and Aggravation
Try Waiting Awhile
Try Walking Across (transoceanic perspective)
Try Western Airlines
Try With Another
Twenty Wobbly Airplanes
Trans European Airlines (TEA)
Turbojets Exploding on Arrival
Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) (Not an airline, but still relevant)
Take Scissors Away
Thousands Standing Around
Transportes Aereos Centro-Americanos (TACA)
Take A Chance Airlines
Take A Coffin Along
Take Another Carrier Amigo
Tenemos Accidente Cada Año (Spanish: We have an accident every year)
Tragedias Aéreas Centro Américanas.
Tres Accidentes Cada Año (Spanish: Three accidents each year)
Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda
Transportes Aereos Da Bacia Amazonica (TABA)
Take A Bus Always
Taxi Along Back Alleys
Transportes Aereos Nacionales (TAN)
TAke off? Never!
Trans Texas Airways (TTA)
Teeter-Totter Airways
Texas Threat to Aviation
Tinker Toys Airways
Too Tardy Airways
Tree Top Airlines
Try to Take an Automobile
U
Union de Transports Aeriens (UTA)
Unable To Ascend
Under the Atlantic
Unlikely To Arrive
United (UA/UAL)
Ignited
Spewnited
U Again?
U Ain’t Leaving
U Always Late
Undeniably Awful
U Need Insurance That Exempts Death
U Never Intend to Expedite Delivery
U Never Intended To Eat Didya
Untied
Untidy
Unusually Awful Landings
Ur Not Intended To Ever Depart
Usually Always Late
Usually No Idea (of) Time Estimated Departure
Usually Not Inclined To Eliminate Disasters
UPS (United Parcel Service)
Oops
United Parcel Smashers
USAir
Underwater Seats Available In Rear
Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality
US err
US Flare
US Prayer
US Scare
Useless Air
Usually Stewardesses Are Irrationally Romantic
US Airways
US Deathways
Useless Airways
V
ValuJet
Cheap A** Airways
Crispy Critter
JunkJet
VARIG
Very Arrogant Rogues In General
Vomit At Regular Intervals Gracefully
Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo (VASP)
Viasao Aereo Sem Preca (Portugese: Airline without a time schedule)
VIASA (Venezolana Internacional de Aviación, Sociedad Anónima)
Vomit In A Sack Always
Virgin
Very Interesting Ride: Going Into Nymphos
Virgin Atlantic
Burn in Atlantic
Virgin Blue
Vermin Blue
VLM (Vlaamse Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
Very Little Maintenance
W
Wapiti Aviation
Whop A Tree Aviation
Wardair
Wart Air
Westair Commuter Airlines (WCA)
We Crash A lot
Western Airlines (WAL)
Western's Always Late
Worst Airlines
Worrisome Airlines
Western Pacific
Western Pathetic
Westjet
Pestjet
Worstjet
Wien Alaska Airlines
Weird Alaska Airlines
Windward Island Airways (WIA)
Whenever It Arrives
World Airways
We Organize Really Long Delays
Weird Airways
Worldways
We Organize Really Long Delays: Wait Around, You'll See
Wright Airlines
Wrong Airlines
Z
Zambia Airways
Zombia Airwa
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