# Help me name an airline **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2013, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976 "2013-03-15T02:58:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/61 "2013-03-19T03:00:01Z")
Give the company a history. Is it a legacy carrier or a low-cost carrier? When was it founded? Where? What’s happened in its corporate lifetime? If it was founded in the 1930s or 1940s, try a bunch of Scandinavian/Germanic/English surnames, as if the company was named after its dead white male founders. Johnson Air, Baker-Smith Airlines, Mason Lines, and so on. Regional names work for this era, too: Great Lakes Air, Mid-American, Schenectady and Western Airlines, Great America Lines, etc. If it was created after deregulation it’ll have a blander, more generic name. City Connect, mentioned above, is good, as is JetAir and Clear Airways and others that have already been mentioned. In fact, you might mention that it isn’t an airline in its own right so much as an appendage of a larger airline, like how Delta Express was a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines. My point is that company names, like a lot of things, come and go in fashions, and grounding your company temporally will narrow the field, which is important to the creative process. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/62 "2013-03-19T03:30:10Z")
Puddle Jumpers Transp-Air-N-C ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/63 "2013-03-19T06:48:23Z")
Well, if it’s for a work of fiction (or you’re willing to spend some more for the naming rights on your startup), you could check out [Airlines Remembered](http://www.amazon.com/Airlines-Remembered-Described-Illustrated-Colour/dp/1857800915), a nice reference book cataloging defunct airlines. (Fun fact: [Greyhound once had an airline!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Air)) Other thoughts: AbAlto Air (Alternate: Air Morsab) Air Phaeton Pan Columbian Airways [White Star](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Star_Line) Lines Air Remex Laputa Airways Langley Layover Lines Aero Zhuravli Seler Aéreas ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/64 "2013-03-19T07:03:28Z")
SSF airlines . Stands for “single serving friend” fight club reference ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/65 "2013-03-19T07:21:52Z")
Conveyer-belt Airlines: Our planes fly, we just can’t explain how! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/66 "2013-03-19T13:42:32Z")
[Singulair](http://www.drugs.com/singulair.html) — Asthma Free Flying Since 2002! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/67 "2013-03-19T13:48:31Z")
When I was a kid in the early-'70s, I had a [Fly Buzzard Airlines](http://www.trademarkia.com/logo-images/harry-p-del-rosso/fly-buzzard-airlines-73100891.jpg) brass belt buckle. It’s a poor image, but it’s that buzzard from the ‘Patience hell, I’m going to kill something’ cartoon. I couldn’t find another image. I’m almost certain I still have that buckle in the drawer of a box in the storage unit. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/68 "2013-03-19T15:10:58Z")
I wish I could find my old Fudpucker World Airlines (“Round the World Since It Was Square!”) baseball hat. ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/69 "2013-03-19T15:58:41Z")
_Sionair_ if you’re serving Moslem countries _Treadmillair_: easy take off ---
**Author:** ![El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_famous_burrito/32/3954_2.png) [@El\_Famous\_Burrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Famous_Burrito)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976/70 "2013-03-19T21:24:55Z")
I’ve always thought that **Azimuth** would make for a good airline name. It fits in with the Navigator, Beacon, and Aurora-type names: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth) Plus, I just like the aesthetics of the word. I have no idea if someone else is already operating in the same space with that name. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-an-airline/652976.md?page=3)