Shamrock or Aer Lingus?

Artur.PL

Listening ATC Dublin Tower I could hear controllers calling Aer Lingus planes "Shamrock". Why is that?

bandit197

Its their callsign, British Airways is 'speedbird', BMI baby is 'baby'.
The shamrock in Aer Lingus callsign is self-explanatory. Hint, its on the tail.....:pac:

Jim236

Every airline has a radio callsign. Aer Lingus' is just 'Shamrock'. Ryanair's is 'Ryanair', CityJet's is 'City-Ireland', and Aer Arann's is 'Aer Arann'.

Tenger

Personally I love the US Airways callsign..........'Cactus'

David086

They use it to keep the syllable at a minimum also.

globemaster1986

Tenger wrote: »

Personally I love the US Airways callsign..........'Cactus'

The 'Cactus' callsign originally belonged to America West but they merged with US Airways and their callsign was kept.

SAA use 'Springbok' which is pretty cool! Also like 'Citrus' - Air Tran, 'Relax' - Sky Europe, 'Giant' - Atlas but my personal favourite after 'Shamrock', is 'Blue Streak':D - PSA Airlines!

LondonIrish90

I must admit to having quite a liking for British Airways' "Speedbird" call sign. As call signs go I think it is one of the more elegant and identifiable.

cyrusdvirus

LondonIrish90 wrote: »

I must admit to having quite a liking for British Airways' "Speedbird" call sign. As call signs go I think it is one of the more elegant and identifiable.

Speedbird certainly suited Concorde.


I liked the old Pan Am one too, Clipper.

Lustrum

Here's a full list of them

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

Check out HRH the duke of york!

kevjob

When British Airways were flying the Concorde they used the callsign "Concorde" for the flights. Speedbird was and is used on all other flights.

Kev.

Teebor15

When British Airways were flying the Concorde they used the callsign "Concorde" for the flights. Speedbird was and is used on all other flights

Thats not correct. British Airways Concorde flights used the callsign "Speedbird Concorde". Also not all BA flights use Speedbird. The callsign "Shuttle" is used on the regular flights between Heathrow and Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh and also between Gatwick and Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

tfitzgerald

Very interesting I did not know these call signs wonder what bono's would be god air

Bearcat

Tenger wrote: »

Personally I love the US Airways callsign..........'Cactus'

I don't....every time I hear the call sign cactus I think of sully putting that 320 in the Hudson and what a lucky escape those folk had. Anyone care to put the link to the transcript with atc up? That cactus call sign will ring in your ears for a while thereafter!

A320

here bearcat, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSPsrhCPt-0

Turbo Porter

Sometime back Aer Lingus used to use call sign "Lingus"...I think up to the early 1970`s and before that registrations were used.

EchoIndia

Turbo Porter wrote: »

Sometime back Aer Lingus used to use call sign "Lingus"...I think up to the early 1970`s and before that registrations were used.

It was officially "Aer Lingus" so dropping the "Aer" was just a form of shorthand.

Turbo Porter

EchoIndia wrote: »

It was officially "Aer Lingus" so dropping the "Aer" was just a form of shorthand.

Maybe so but we are talking about vocal not written and "Lingus"is what I remember been used all the time then.While still on the subject was "Shamrock"used for the trans Atlantic services before been adopted for all services?Something in the back of my mind has me thinking this but I could be mistaken.

Tenger

Turbo Porter wrote: »

.....While still on the subject was "Shamrock"used for the trans Atlantic services before been adopted for all services?Something in the back of my mind has me thinking this but I could be mistaken.

Could well have been the case as originally 'Aer Lingus' was the European operator while 'Aerlinte Eireann' was the TransAtlantic operation with the Constellations. (This wasin addition to Aer Rianta running the airports themselves)
Not sure when they merged though.

EchoIndia

Tenger is correct. In the 1970s the transatlantic flights used "Shamrock" while all others used "Aer Lingus". Then it was "Aer Lingus" for all flights and finally "Shamrock" was adopted for all! I don't know the dates of the changes but this is the sequence as I recall it.

Turbo Porter

EchoIndia wrote: »

Tenger is correct. In the 1970s the transatlantic flights used "Shamrock" while all others used "Aer Lingus". Then it was "Aer Lingus" for all flights and finally "Shamrock" was adopted for all! I don't know the dates of the changes but this is the sequence as I recall it.

Ah well Tenger I`am sure is a sound person..but what you quoted sounds a bit like what I said see reply 17 :rolleyes:

sharkman

When listening to the Tower I sometimes hear them refer to "Company" taking up position etc .. What does this refer to ?

Turbo Porter

sharkman wrote: »

When listening to the Tower I sometimes hear them refer to "Company" taking up position etc .. What does this refer to ?

Tower use the term "Company"when talking to talking to a specific airlines aircraft and advising them of what an other aircraft of the same airline is doing or intends to do.An example would be lets say a Ryanair is holding short of the active runway and another Ryanair is on short finals the tower may say "Ryanair(flight no.)cleared to line up after the company on short final has passed".The same would apply if it was any other airlines same two aircraft it just means another aircraft of the same company.

Tenger

Turbo Porter wrote: »

Ah well Tenger I`am sure is a sound person..but what you quoted sounds a bit like what I said see reply 17 :rolleyes:

I am sound, thanks for that. But I thought I was responding to your query of T/A vs Euro callsigns.

Turbo Porter

Tenger wrote: »

I am sound, thanks for that. But I thought I was responding to your query of T/A vs Euro callsigns.

It was not your post I was replying to Tenger I have not quibble with that I quoted and was referring to EchoIndia in post 19.

pclancy

I was told to line up after the "company cherokee at 2 miles" the other day in my little piper tomahawk. He was referring to another plane from the same aeroclub but funny to hear the company description being applied to GA aircraft