{"id":2499,"date":"2016-06-16T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2016-06-16T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:36:20","slug":"what-are-some-unusual-airline-call-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/what-are-some-unusual-airline-call-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"What are some unusual airline call signs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many codes each airline uses is one known as a &#8220;call sign.&#8221; This is how pilots and air traffic controllers identify an airline when talking to each other. For example, &#8220;This is Cactus 313 requesting &#8230;&#8230;&#8221; Cactus was the call sign for US Airways. Over the years we&#8217;ve lost some other funny call signs to mergers as well. Who remembers &#8220;Citrus&#8221; for AirTran, or my personal favorite, &#8220;Critter&#8221; for Valuejet. Most U.S. based airlines today just use the name of the carrier, but if we look overseas there are still some that bring a smile. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aer Lingus &#8211; Shamrock<\/li>\n<li>British Airways &#8211; Speedbird<\/li>\n<li>South African Airways &#8211; Springbok<\/li>\n<li>Tigerair &#8211; Go Cat<\/li>\n<li>Virgin Australia &#8211; Velocity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many codes each airline uses is one known as a &#8220;call sign.&#8221; This is how pilots and air traffic controllers identify an airline when talking to each other. For example, &#8220;This is Cactus 313 requesting &#8230;&#8230;&#8221; Cactus was the call sign for US Airways. Over the years we&#8217;ve &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}