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Airline: Western Airlines

These are posts from Fly the Branded Skies about Western Airlines.

ICAO Code: WAL

Western Airlines Jr. Stewardess Wings
Western Airlines Junior Pilot Wings
Western Airlines Junior Pilot Wings (Pink)
Western Airlines Junior Pilot Wings (red)
Western Airlines Junior Stewardess Wings (Pink)
Western Airlines Junior Stewardess Wings (Red)
Western Airlines Jr. Stewardess Wings
Western Airlines Junior Pilot Wings
Western Airlines Junior Pilot Wings
Western Airlines Junior Stewardess Wings
Western Airlines Jr. Crew Member Wings
Western Airlines Wings

Jingle: Western “Western Pays a Buck a Flub” (1966)

Western Airlines Flub Stub

Listen: Western Airlines: “Western Pays a Buck a Flub — Rude”

Gawrsh, running an airline sure hurts your noggin. So many things to remember. Smile at the passengers, clean the lavatory, put down the landing gear… who could blame ya for goofin’ up sometimes? Aw-hyuck!

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Tropes: Employee-Owners

Every kind of advertising has—well, let’s call them “conventions.” Airline advertising is no different. This is part of a series of posts on the clichés of airline advertising.

When airlines get into trouble, as they often do, they eventually end up being worth more dead than alive. But there’s one group of people that always has an interest in keeping the planes flying: the employees. Over the past few decades, a number of airlines have been saved — however temporarily — when employees took ownership stakes in them, usually in exchange for pay cuts.

And as soon as employees become stockholders, the airline advertises.


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