I was looking for fun callsigns that weren't just "southwest" or "air Canada" but more like Cactus or Speedbird. Any more historical or current that come to mind?

Here are a couple:

Virgin Australia: "Velocity"

 

South African Airlines: "Springbok"

 

Tiger Airways: "Go Cat"

 

Air Asia Indonesia: "Wagon Air"

 

Aer Lingus: "Shamrock"

This east coast-based US airline had an advertising claim, that was picked up frequently by ATC - not exactly a callsign - what's this airline again (somewhere around KBOS)?!?

Not exactly an official thing, but still quite funny to listen to:

 

PHL Tower looking for better Callsign for Air Wisconsin

 

Sorry for not embedding the video, I seem to be too dumb to do that :rolleyes:

Edited May 31, 201313 yr by FloG

Republic RPA - "Brickyard"

Foudn another one (an official, this time), but the airline ceased to exist in 2011:

Robin Hood Aviation - "Sherwood" - an Austrian regional airline operating between Graz (LOWG), Linz (LOWL) and Zurich (LSZH).

Middle east airlines = cedar jet

Found it:

 

mocha hagotdi =

 

Making
Our
Customers
Happy
And

Having
A
Good
Time
Doing
It

("Boston John", Boston ATC, when referring to Cape Air)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_codes-All

 

call signs of the world in the above link

Thomas Cook use Kestrel.

China Airlines use Dynasty.

Pan Am used used Clipper.

 

Regards,

Ró.

Hmm..British Airways' Speedbird, Brussels Airlines' Bee-Line, VLM Airlines' Rubens (after the famous painter from Antwerp as well), Air Nippon's Alfa Wing, American Eagle's Eagle Flight and [...]'s Candler come to mind!

The now-defunct Shuttle American was called "Shuttlecraft."

Virgin America: Redwood

I always liked Critter which was used for ValuJet because of it's little mascot they had. Ours was Moku which meant island in Hawaiian or in some other dialects also meant bird so it was fitting.

Looking down the Wikipedia list, I noticed one.

 

1 Time Airlines: NEXTIME