This flight SUX!

Chernabog · 10-22-2007, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by AP

After Fight, Airport Embraces SUX Code
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Oct. 21) - City leaders have scrapped plans to do away with the Sioux Gateway Airport's unflattering three-letter identifier - SUX - and instead have made it the centerpiece of the airport's new marketing campaign.

The code, used by pilots and airports worldwide and printed on tickets and luggage tags, will be used on T-shirts and caps sporting the airport's new slogan, "FLY SUX." It also forms the address of the airport's redesigned Web site - www.flysux.com.

Sioux City officials petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to change the code in 1988 and 2002. At one point, the FAA offered the city five alternatives - GWU, GYO, GYT, SGV and GAY - but airport trustees turned them down.

Full article here
Haha I think it is a funny marketing campaign but what cracked me up was how the FAA offered the alternate of GAY, like that would be a wholeheartedly embraced alternative.

Although, FLY GAY would have had such a better ring to it!

innerSpaceman · 10-22-2007, 02:45 PM

How about GAY SUX?

oh .... wait

Gn2Dlnd · 10-22-2007, 02:52 PM

Minneapolis is taking that.

Morrigoon · 10-22-2007, 03:15 PM

Would make one hell of a luggage tag.

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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Would make one hell of a luggage tag. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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