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Acronym         Alphabetic Collocation Reducing Or Numbering Your Memory
                A Concise Reduction Of Nomenclature Yielding Mnemonics
                Another Cheap Round Of Network Yawn Makers
                A Capitalised Representation of Names You Memorize

        Airlines

        AA                      Abort! Abort!
                                Always Awful

        AI                      Allah Informed
        Airbus                  Airlines Impose Regrettable Bullshit Upon Us
        Alitalia                Always Late In Transit, Always Late In Arrival
                                Airplane Landed In Tokyo And Luggage In Atlanta
                                A Little Italian Tit And Lotsa Italitan Ass
                                A Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude

        American                A Miracle Each Rider Is Currently Alive Now
                                Airline Meals Eaten Regularly Induces Cramps and 
                                Nausea

        AUA                     Almost Unknown Airline

        AWA                     Always Wasting Assets

        BA                      Bloody Awful
                                British Apoplectic

        BEA                     Better Eat Afterwards

        BOAC                    Better On A Camel
                                Blast Off And Crash

        Boeing                  Broken Off Engines In Numerous Gardens

        BWIA                    Baggage Wandering In Africa
                                Better Walk If you're Able
                                Born to Wait In Airports
                                But Will I Arrive?

        CAAC                    Chinese Airlines Always Cancel

        Dan Air                 Dangerous And Nearly Always Incredibly Rough

        Delta                   Damaged Engines Limit Take-off Ability
                                Departures Extra-Late, Tardy Arrivals
                                Directed Everybody's Luggage To Atlanta
                                Doesn't Even Leave The Airport
                                Doesn't Ever Let Terrorists Aboard
                                Doesn't Experience Like This Andrenalize?
                                Don't Even Let Them Aboard
                                Drunken Engineers Land Too Abruptly

        EAA                     Even Apes Aviate

        El Al                   Egyptian Louting Arab Loathing
                                Every Landing Always Late
                                Every Landing Always Lousy
                                Everyones Luggage Always Lost

        Finnair                 Flies Ideally?  Nah, Not Airbourne In Reality

        JAL                     Journey Always Late

        JAT                     Joke About Time

        Liat                    Luggage Is Always Tardy

        Lot                     Lots Of Trouble

        Lufthansa               Let Us Fiddle The Hostess And Not Say Anything
        
        MAS                     May Actually Shit

        Northwest               Nobody Out Ranks This Horrid, Worthless,
                                Excruciatingly Sluggish Transport

        Olympic                 Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash

        PAL                     Prick Always Long

        Pan Am                  Passengers Always Need A Mortician
                                Pilots Are Not A Must
                                Poor Airline Needs Any Money
        PIA                     Passenger's Illegal Abductor
                                Perhaps I Arrive
                                Please Inform Allah

        PSA                     Paul's Saturday Airline

        PWA                     Pete's Wobbly Airline
                                Piddly Widdly Airline
                                PLease Wait Awhile

        Qantas                  Queasy and Nauseous, Tired And Sick
                                Queers And Nymphomaniacs Trained As Stewards
                                Quick And Nasty Transportation, Australian Style
                                Quite A Neat Trick, Arriving Safely
                                Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors?
                                Quits Air-travel, Next Time Approaches Ship

        Sabena                  Such A Bad Experience - Never Again     

        SAHSA                   Stay At Home, Stay Alive

        SAS                     Service After Sex
                                Sex And Satisfaction
                                Such A S***
        SATA                    Such a Terrible Airline
        Sia                     Sex In the Air
                                Singapore Imitates America

        TACA                    Take Another Carrier Always
                                Take A Coffin Along
                                Tome Alcohol Cuanda Aborda

        TAP                     Take A Parachute
                                Take Another Plane

        Thy                     They Hate You

        TWA                     That Was Accidental
                                That Was Awful
                                Travel With Arabs
                                Teeny Weeny Airlines
                                Try Walking Across
                                Try With Another
                                Today's Worst Airline
                                Tomorrow We'll Arrive
                                Tomorrow's Widebody Accident
                                Totally Wasted Airlines

        United                  U Need Insurance That Exempts Death
                                Usually Not Enclined To Eliminate Disasters

        USAir                   (used to be Allegheny Airlines):
                                Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality

        Uta                     Unlikely To Arrive
                                Unable To Ascend
        
        Varig                   Virgin's Are Rare In Glasgow

        Virgin                  Very Interesting Ride: Going Into Nymphos
 
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