Varney callsign
 

Heard a rumor a while back that since Cal and Ual both grew out of the old Varney Speed Lines, UniCal was going to return to using Varney instead of United. Never heard any more of it, so I guess that didn't work out.

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I love the quote in the Continental Wikipedia page. It talked about Bob Six's commitment to customer service. The Customer Service Manual was preceded by the words, "Nothing in this manual supersedes common sense." That sentence has LONG since been removed.

Actually, Varney Air Transport (founded in 1925) which merged with Pacific Air Transport, National Air Transport and Boeing Air Transport in 1933 to become United Airlines, was a totally separate company from Varney Speed Lines which was founded in 1934 and later became Continental in 1937. Little known trivia, the old UAL wings had four stars on them to signify the original four airlines that merged. Our new wings only have two stars unfortunately. History forgotten.

You forgot the history of merging with Continental?

So there should be five stars, not two.

Surely, you must be joking.

Predictably, your forgetting all the airlines that were merged into CAL. That's why there's just two.

apostrophe re:D

I believe the choice was to have two stars or close to ten: Texas International, New York Air, People Express, Frontier, and that doesn't include pilots who came our way through commuter acquisitions and flow-through agreements.

Two stars will do just fine. It was a merger of equals, despite the sentiments of a few.

So...who bought who?