The BBC headline read, "Baby born on Armenia plane named after stewardess". The story went on to say the baby was named Hasmik after Hasmik Ghevondyan, who helped deliver her. Ms. Ghevondyan later modestly recounted how "the whole crew helped deliver the baby."
Two comments: Apparently political correctness hasn't yet made it to Armenia. Years ago (before K) I dated a "flight attendant" and I can tell you they are very touchy about being called "stewardesses".
Secondly, if "the whole crew helped deliver the baby", who was flying the friggin' airplane? I always feel better when my airline keeps one pilot (minimum) up front looking at least a little interested in keeping the wings level and pointed in the right direction.
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And in keeping with this post's aviation theme, have you ever thought about airport names? New York has John F. Kennedy, Washington has Ronald Reagan, Houston has George Bush, New Orleans has Louis Armstrong, OK City has Will Rogers, and even some hole in Pennsylvania has an airport named after their hometown King of Pork, Congressman John Murtha.
Paris has Charles De Gaulle, Tel Aviv has Ben Gurion, Warsaw has Frederic Chopin, and Istanbul has Mustafa Ataturk Airport. Now I read (again via the BBC) that Birmingham, England is considering re-naming their airport Ozzy Osbourne International Airport after the Black Sabbath musician and former resident.
Let me throw another few proposals into the ring:
Dallas/Ft. Worth could re-name their airport JR Ewing International.
Seattle's SeaTac could become Starbucks/Howard Schultz International.
Memphis...."The King". Just The King.
Detroit Metro could become MoTown/Berry Gordy International.
Las Vegas' McCarran could be re-named the Bugsy Siegel Casino, Wedding Chapel and Elvis Venue. And Airport.
Miami could re-name theirs the Ricky Ricardo World SmugglePort.
Newark Liberty could become Joe Pesci International.
Bogata, Colombia's El Dorado could become Juan Valdez International.
Astana, Kazakhstan could re-name their airport Borat Field ('cause, you know, it's just a mowed field).
Rome's Leonardo da Vinci could become the Sophia Loren Fountain of Eternal Youth and World Airport. (Come on Leonardo....you and Michelangelo have Rome pretty well sewn up. Share, OK?)
Help me out here. There's bound to be lots more. Dazzle me! ;)
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That would be a good name for Detroit's airport except that airport isn't in Detroit; it's about 15 miles away from the city in Romulus.
ReplyDeleteDFW isn't in either Dallas or Ft. Worth, technically, but I'm not not gonna let geography muck up my plans. Just humor me. ;)
DeleteLOVE your name for the Vegas airport - ha! I think they should rename the Charlotte airport with some sort of Nascar theme. Dale Earnhardt? Richard Petty? Junior Johnson?
ReplyDeleteOr maybe "Web"? Get it? ;)
DeleteGood ones all!
ReplyDeleteLooks like retirement is kicking in, this post must have taken a lot of time!
I like Borat Field. That character really cracks me up. Now that Colorado has legalized recreational marihuana, it's not just the Denver airport that's a mile high!
ReplyDeleteOkay, I know this isn’t playing along properly, but I always felt it was a bad idea to name airports after famous people. I much preferred Liverpool’s airport under the name of Speke (after Speke Hall, in whose grounds it partly stands), rather than John Lennon International Airport. It seems a little tacky to me: you can be pretty sure that in John Lennon’s younger days he wasn’t much respected by the city’s elders. But when he became famous they wanted to cash in on his name.
ReplyDeleteFor that matter I preferred Idlewild Airport. It seems a more appropriate name than (and I mean no disrespect to JFK) a rather bland personal name, which has no such strong local association.
I just hope that Manchester doesn’t do something similar: it does not have a celebrity name yet, but to me it will always be remembered under its local name of Ringway, which preserved the name of the farm on whose land it was built, and where I went plane-spotting when I was a kid.
Well, I suppose I might accept ‘Simon Butler International Airport’, if only so people travelling there can say “Who the hell is Simon Butler?”
the new Berlin airport is named after a former chancler and Berlin Mayor, Willy Brandt, and it's not even open yet! Have you read about the poor construction, many delays, extreme rise in cost and perhaps already planned too small? Next planned opening date... late 2014, maybe! (it was supposed to open last summer). If you find English news about it, you might be interested in reading about it. Very embarrising considering the formerly good reputation German engineering used to have.
ReplyDeletehere's a link for ya... http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/how-berlin-s-new-international-airport-opening-was-delayed-a-833122.html
ReplyDeleteDorrie, I've been reading about the airport disaster in Berlin. Aren't there calls for the current mayor of Berlin to resign over this?
ReplyDeleteScott, Buffalo's airport is actually in Cheektowaga (say that fast three times). Great name for it: The Blizzard.
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