He introduces himself as Rednose, controller is totally baffled and needs to use callsign He introduces by his callsign, controller acks Rednose He introduces himself as Rednose. "That is interesting"
The second controller probably still didn't know what the Rednose callsign was about, he just accepted that Rudolph is coming in to land and he was much too busy to worry about it.
I love how the first approach controller caused the pilot to say the full flight number, then called the second approach with the same flight number, only to get called red nose xD
cowbert It’s still 2019 and I stand by my word. Soon! They’ve abandoned Argentina. They’ve abandoned ARL and CPH long-distance flights. They’ve abandoned the US Northeast 737 bases, including flights to the Caribbean and Europe. They’ve sacked their CEO. Don’t you worry... it’s coming.
That would be so cool. Does anyone know how the planes get their names? Can a pilot just make it up? Some of these seem rather informal, like rednose which is not a company nor an airline name.
Hi, Alex! Aviation call signs are proposed by the airlines but have to be approved by an international governing body called the ICAO. Some of the most entertaining ones are some of the earliest (British Airways = "Speedbird," which still makes me grin a little) and some of the dumbest (United = "United," which still makes me grin a little). There's a wikipedia page about Aviation Call Signs and some external links to individual airline pedigrees.
All of the other airplanes Used to laugh and call his callsign They never let poor Norwegian Join in any air traffic Then one foggy airport Eve Tower came to say "Norwegian, with your callsign so bright Won't you guide tower tonight?" Then how the airplanes loved him As they shouted out with glee "Norwegian the Red-Call Signed Airplane You'll go down in history"
D'awwww!! That's adorable! Rednose - love it! I've flown Norwegian a couple of times and never had anything but good experiences with them. (Well, except for having to pay extra for literally everything - but that's a budget airline for you. Can't say I didn't know what I signed up for.) They're such a great little airline.
I've flown 4 times in total now. their ordering system is brilliant and dangerous. just swipe your card on the tv screen for the first order and it'll leave the tab open until you land.
The ‘Red Nose’ callsign suits them very well! It’s always fun to catch JFK off guard on the call signs. The guy on Kennedy tower wins (oh, that is interesting). Slight correction at 1:47, “it’s a different AOC.”
Yup. Absolutely true! Former Rednose cabin crew here, and our callsign was Nortrans for Irish AOC (NAI). Norshuttle is for NAS, as far as I can recall ^___^. We also call ourselves "rednoses".
LOL poor Rednose! It's like being that one kid who has an unusual name and gets constantly questioned and made fun of for it in elementary school. Loved it when someone yelled "Rudolf" haha
If Norwegian gets "Rednose" , why doesn't like Qantas get "Dingo" or Korean air "Pepsi" . (Lol when I was young, a lot of kids at my elementary school saw a Korean air a380 and they called it "Pepsi Airlines" because of the tail logo and as I was Korean tried to explain to them it wasn't Pepsi lol)
History sometimes! Some airlines do have interesting callsigns. For instance, South African Airways has the callsign Springbok and British Airways is Speedbird. ASL Belgium (formerly TNT) uses Quality, and TUI Belgium (formerly Jetairfly) uses Beauty.
Lol same thing happened when I was listening to my sons flight from Gatwick to Chicago with the same Airline , The controller was getting confused with the call sign and having a laugh. may have been the first NRS flight into ORD.
That day, Norwegian switched all of its flights from Gatwick to out of the EU to Rednose with DI (instead of DY) flight numbers. The difference here is: Norwegian UK is now 20x weekly to JFK while only later in the day to everywhere else.
all airlines need this type of callsign like shamrock or rednose LOT Had this on Cold War - LOT (Landed on Tempelhof, Lot Okęcie-Tempelhof (Flight Warsaw okecie-berlin tempelhof) or Landet oft Tempelhof (often lands on Tempelhof)
he was refering to Norwegians practice of having different AOCs to divide the workforce and to reduce the level of working conditions (and salary) further and further. www.aerotime.aero/en/civil/12395-why-there-is-so-much-noise-about-norwegian-air-flying-in-the-us
@@AgentSmith911 I guess, but when it comes at the cost of circumventing labour laws and avoiding paying social security for the workers, it's very unethical and kinda despicable in my opinion. Anything for cheaper tickets, I guess. "Race to the bottom", indeed.
Thing is, the whole Norwegian workforce was unionized and worked according to union negotiated T&Cs (and of course paid their social security contributions), unlike most of the 20 Lufthansa AOCs, where there is a real race to the bottom. Flying a 777 for less than a 100k as a captain, or an A330 to the USA for at most 108k as a captain, both well below what Norwegian used to pay. I'm always a bit surprised by the vitriol from the US pilots for Norwegian, when their alliance and code share partners use much more dubious means of employment and setups, operating under united flight numbers.
Race to the top , the only budget airliner that offer long flights. As long as the pilots and staff are happy with the working conditions , which is better than in the US, I see no problems here.
They do actually assign those numbers like 7700, 7600 and 7500 to flights? Isn't that a bit confusing, considering that these are the emergency transponder codes?
"They do actually assign those numbers like 7700, 7600 and 7500 to flights? Isn't that a bit confusing, considering that these are the emergency transponder codes?" No.
Late reply but nobody gave the true answer. The audio pilots or ATC hear is much better quality, because pilots are in the air with no obstructions and ATC simply has a better system. The audio we hear is not great quality because it was picked up by some ground-based radio system (likely amateur/hobbyist).
very late reply but if you want really mad comms look up some saturation diving stuff. The divers are on a helium oxygen mix so all sound like donald duck
I always see the Norwegian planes in the sky and me and my mom call them the tampon planes, they just look like tampons from the ground, i cant help it 😂
Laughing my butt off here over this one. I almost feel sorry for the pilots having to use it. I would love to have heard Kennedy Steve's comment on this one.
Norwegian Air's expansion has definitely been a hot topic because of their labour practices. An AOC in a different country allows them to hire pilots with cheaper contracts than allowed under local laws, and no job security. The unknown pilot's comment of it being a race to the bottom is sadly accurate. This article has a bit more of an explanation: www.bizjournals.com/chicago/news/2017/07/27/united-airlines-pilots-getting-angrierabout.html
Air France : Air Baguette 9087 cleared to land Alitalia : Pizza Airlines 3754 cleated to land China : Fly Corona 7026 requesting pushback I must admit it , I am French
And Noruega for Norwegian Air Argentina. Norwegian also just got a sixth AOC, Norwegian Air Sweden (with two B38Ms due to be registered there as SE-RTA/B).
BA got speedbird from Concordes first commercial flight back in the late 80s to early 2000s ever since then speedbird has stuck around and gained approval from HRH the queen the patron of the Airline
@@edwardmcdermott2672 Nope the "speed bird" refers to the logo first used by Imperial Airways in 1932 and then retained by BOAC, who chose the callsign speedbird. BOAC and BEA merged to form BA two years before the introduction on Concorde. BA chose to retain the call sign
@@molybdomancer195 Thanks for the clarification. I've always wondered where they got Speedbird from. Just dug up your reference on Wiki and it looks like Woody Woodpecker haulin' it! Very cool logo.
@@molybdomancer195 Thanks for the clarification. I've always wondered where they got Speedbird from. Just dug up your reference on Wiki and it looks like Woody Woodpecker haulin' it! Very cool logo.
As I understood it still remains “Norwegian” for Nor Shuttle, the callsign has changed only for Norwegian International, which if you ask me is a pity.
They are legally separate airlines so they can't have the same callsign. It's not that uncommon. Virgin and BA also have a second AOCs with different callsigns.
I wonder why the airplane in the background picture has the electrical fan generator deployed under the fuselage (can’t remember the exact name, I thought that was only required for total loss of electrical power) ? I have only seen that for the Air Transat flight that ran out of gas over the Atlantic.
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