Name: 部分航空公司讓乘客選擇飛機名稱 (Some Airlines Let Passengers Choose a Plane Name)
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When the pilot greets you on board, they’ll talk about the weather and flight duration

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after introducing themselves and the crew.

But have you ever been on a flight where the Captain introduced the plane itself?

I don’t mean “Boeing 737,” but something like “Miss Moneypenny” – really!

Planes are a relatively recent invention.

Before them, there was another popular means of mass transportation – ships.

Well, it might come as no surprise that aviation inherited a lot of things from seafaring.

Distances are measured in nautical miles, aircraft can also be called ships, and the

pilot is no less than the captain himself.

Plus, he’s got a trusted crew to help him on board.

Each major ship in history had its name: the Santa Maria, USS Constitution, HMS Victory,

A lot of them were named after places they came from, historical figures, or just some

So if you’re wondering where the practice comes from, the aviation industry took this

The first major airline to do it was Pan American Airways, once the largest international air

In 1929, they invited Amelia Earhart (you know, the first female pilot to fly solo across

the Atlantic Ocean) to wish good luck to their first aircraft flying from Miami to Havana.

It was a Ford Trimotor fittingly dubbed Cuba.

They continued naming their aircraft, many of them with maritime monikers, until Delta

Fortunately, the naming tradition grew strong and lived on.

Around that same time in the1920s, similar things were happening across the pond.

KLM, the official Dutch airline, gave its first aircraft the name Dikke Dirk, which

They picked this name after the last two letters in its registration – DD.

The “fat” part was a joke about its unusually chubby fuselage.

The airline still gives names to its planes, but mostly chooses cities, heritage sites,

and sometimes even local bird and insect species for inspiration.

Today, a lot of major airlines like Virgin America, Virgin Atlantic, Qantas, Icelandair,

and JetBlue spend a good amount of time and money coming up with the perfect name for

Now, it seems logical to name a plane after a famous explorer or the city it was built

in, but sometimes the names written below the pilot's cockpit window on the nose of

the aircraft are way more eccentric than that.

Get ready to meet Pepper, Scootalicious, Ladybird, and the Big Yella Fella!

Many airlines name their planes after something that means a lot for their national culture,

In Australia, for example, Qantas aircraft proudly bear the name of local cities, Aboriginal

One plane, for example, is named Nancy-Bird Walton, after the woman who founded the local

Even though she was almost a century old by the time her big metal namesake first took

Another interesting naming example from Down Under is Nullarbor, which is the Latin for

It's also a flat and arid region in Australia with basically nothing in it… certainly

Virgin Australia likes naming their planes after the country-continent’s endless beaches

– there are so many of them that they can keep buying planes and never run out of names!

The national airline of Israel called El Al names its aircraft after local cities.

So there might be a Jerusalem and Tel Aviv flying somewhere above the clouds right now!

They always celebrate the naming of a new plane with a whole ceremony in that city.

In Hawaiian culture, giving a name to a person or even an object is a revered practice.

They say it can make or break a person’s (or object’s) prosperity and spirit.

So, it’s no wonder Hawaiian Airlines always name their planes, and they mostly take inspiration

Makali'i, for example, is a constellation that’s so important in Hawaiian mythology

that there’s an Airbus 330 in the local air fleet bearing its name.

There’s also an aircraft named after the famous Maui-born sumo wrestler Jesse Takamiyama.

Iceland is the place to be if you want to see some striking landscapes and powerful

nature, what with all its volcanoes, geysers, hot springs, and glaciers.

When one volcano with a name I’m not even going to try to pronounce [Eyjafjallajökull]—see?--

erupted back in 2010, the whole world learned about it since flights across the globe were

Well, Icelandair decided to name a Boeing 757 after the thing!

In the Land of Spices, airline marketing agents used that ginormous flavorful variety for

So, head to India, and you just might fly on a plane called Red Chili, Coriander, Pepper,

All those spicy planes are the fleet of Spicejet airlines.

By the way, if you were to name a plane after your favorite food or spice, what would it

“Flaming Hot Cheetos requesting permission to land…”

Let me know your pick down in the comments!

It's also quite popular to name planes after prominent people.

Russian national air carrier Aeroflot looks to the country’s great writers, scientists,

So if you’re ever flying with the carrier, don’t be surprised to hear the plane introduced

Virgin Atlantic airlines give their planes mostly female names, such as Pretty Woman,

Queen of the Skies, Ladybird, and Indian Princess.

These names are accompanied by a painting of Lady Luck on the side of the craft.

She’s painted in the Pinup Girl style of Peruvian artist Alberto Vargas.

The airline also has a plane named after him called Varga Girl.

JetBlue airlines stay true to their brand when naming every new plane they get.

They try to include the word “blue” in that nickname.

Their very first plane was an Airbus A320 called BlueBird that traveled from JFK to

When they purchased the first US-made Airbus, they honored the famous Alabama city it was

built in by calling the plane BluesMobile.

Among other aircraft in their fleet are “Blue by Popular Demand” and “Hopelessly Devoted

And when airlines need some help from the public, they hold competitions among their

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