Phil Lufthansa is still around. The airline with - in my experience - the best re-interpretation of its initials was SABENA. Officially "Societe Autonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne" it was much better known as "Such a Bl**dy Experience Never Again" which, to be fair, has not so much to do with why in its place today is SN Brussels Airlines. What does the SN mean I hear you ask. Well, it only means that the company managed to inherit SABENA's IATA carrier code and has no other significance.
Why don't we have SABENA any more to complain about? The answer is that SABENA got too close to Swissair and they both took to the sky together never to land. SABENA still has an extensive web site where the demise is explained: http://www.sabena.com/EN/Historique_FR.htm If you want to get the story of Swissair, Wikipedia has it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair Incidentally the successor company, Swiss International Air Lines, has IATA code LX and is getting into bed with Lufthansa. A reasonable guess was that Wikipedia also had the SABENA story and so it does - the URL is obvious. Originally I was going to say that the reason we can no longer use that famous interpretation of the initials is because of the perfidious Swiss. That seemed too hard on the poor Swiss but, reading the Wikipedia entry, I can see that is exactly what the Belgian authorities think. However by and large they have only themselves to blame - read it, it's a delight! Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 05 November, 2006 1:32 AM Subject: FW: The PSI Letter V4 ... one at Lufthansa (it stands for Let Us F*ck The Hostess As No Steward's Available) ... ... -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.co.uk +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
