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im so confused, I thought an airline would have the callsighn or name of the company, I.E. ame would be america west and asa would be asa, eghh, What the hell is a callsighn anyway? Confused
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I believe that callsigns were originally created for brevity on the radio, in order to prevent frequency congestion. Military squadrons use callsigns for that very reason (Phoenix 23, etc). Alot of airlines probably choose their callsigns just because they're pretty cool!! CC Air, out in NC (when they existed) used "Carolina", and Northwest Airlink is pretty cool with "Flagship". Others are just pretty boring...lol.