Originally Posted by mooney

Guys we have learned probably 20,000 aviation acronyms/abbreviations since we started flying. Everything from systems to weather reports to LEO's. Is reading/learning 10 more airline codes a year on a gossip board in your free time really going to kill you? Why don't we tell the FAA to do away with weather codes and have everything as it is for Grandma on the local news at 6 pm while we're at it?

all this discusion even when the OP says in plain english who the 2 airlines are if you actually read his post....