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From: stephenb@mako.UUCP (Stephen A. Blair)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Airline acronyms
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 13:58:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 13:58:53 1986
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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I used to work at the Aurora, Illinois Air Route Traffic Control Center. 
Some of the names we used were:

	BOAC 		British Overseas Air Catastrophes
	Air France	Air Chance
	SAS		SOS
	Aer Lingus	Cunning Lingus
	Mohawk		SlowHawk
	Lufthansa	Luftwaffe
	Allegheny	Alligator
	Singapore	Sling'n'pore
	Ozark		Slowzark
	United		Untied
	Delta		Deltoid

	and others too numerous to type in the short time that I have