what a silly call sign TOPJET

lol I think a good one is Virgin!

Mind you at Aldergrove i heard female atc asking a pilot if he really was easy!!

ATC brings a few funny bits now and then. Its amazing how much atc talk generally to pilot like at EGAC (belfast city) female atc was talking to a bmi A321 pilot for a good few minutes and on another occasion told her husband (a flybe pilot) he could “collect his stuff in the morning” – lol

There’s a Dutch airline that use the call sign “Dutch Bird” which is always mildly amusing if it’s a female crew member calling on the r/t.

This site is good for determining an airline’s identity from its callsign:

http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/callsign.asp

It’s just a callsign. Who cares? Passengers don’t hear it, and why would pilots bother…

Uh, I do, when I listen to channel 9 on UA flights. About a year ago I found out America West was “Cactus.”

It’s just a callsign. Who cares? Passengers don’t hear it, and why would pilots bother…

Bull, the airline decides on the call sign and it must be for a reson not just ATC, otherwise why change it.

Topjet makes we cringe just typint it!

No your wrong, your telling me you go around saying:

“who you flying with?”
“Oh im flying with topjet!”

Thats like saying:

“Im flying with Speedbird oh and Jersey

ATC cant get used to TOP-JET either! Theystill keep saying Globe!That is so much nicer.
I think Speedbird is one of the best,also Air Atlantas SNOWBIRD.

For callsigns, you can’t beat Speedbird, thats gotta be one of, if not THE, coolest callsign.

I don’t have much of a problem with Topjet.

Bmi Baby requently use “baby”, now thats bad,

still think it’s pants,

and less of the she SOFTLAD

Callsigns are one of those interesting symbolic names that airlines have that only pilots in the industry or hardcore aviation nuts know about. There is also a lot of historic or just interesting meaning behind them too that sometimes isn’t apparent.

One of them on this side of pond is the callsign of Atlantic Southeast Airlines, which is a feeder for Delta Airlines out of Atlanta as well as Cincinnati. The Callsign for ASA is “Candler.”

The land that the first Atlanta city airport was built on was owned by a Mr. Asa Candler. Mr. Candler was one of the original founders of Coca-Cola which is based in Atlanta as well as a mayor for the city. That first Atlanta airport was named after Mr. Candler and was called Candler Field. That airport eventually became the Hartsfield-Atlanta International Airport that we know now.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines was started in Atlanta and took the name of the original airport as its callsign. Another interesting item is that Mr. Candler’s first name was Asa which is also the common name for Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA).

Our callsign is “Jetlink” which is pretty lame. Our ICAO identifier is BTA due to the original certificate of operation that was used was borrowed from Brit-Airways back in the early ’80’s when Continental Express was formed from the merger of 3 small regional airlines.

Yes, the Spanish didn’t like using Globe because it sounds very similar to a Spanish colloquialism for a condom. We had a poll amongst the pilots for suggested callsigns and then we voted for our favourite from the top 5. We chose Tommy however one of our management undemocratically forced the exceedingly arrogant Top Jet on us. I don’t know any line pilot that likes it.

Pity you’re not still JMC then you could have used the UK colloquialism for a condom “Johnny”. :rolleyes:

Yes, the Spanish didn’t like using Globe because it sounds very similar to a Spanish colloquialism for a condom. We had a poll amongst the pilots for suggested callsigns and then we voted for our favourite from the top 5. We chose Tommy however one of our management undemocratically forced the exceedingly arrogant Top Jet on us. I don’t know any line pilot that likes it.

Is it me or is there a vague association with the callsign JetSet here?

Has nothing on Speedbird!!

Ignore Wilag she’s only after an argument. 😀

Callsigns are for ATC use only, no ulterior motive for them. The reason it was changed was partyl because of Moondances reason, and also monosyllabic callsigns are not recomended and were proving difficult for many foreign ATC to pronounce/understand.

‘Globe’ may have sounded pretty swish to the English speaking world, but apparently it means (or is a brand of) condom in the Spanish speaking world (….childish smirk…)