<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Bytepusher:
but why they landed on SS instead of IBM's suggestion of PSS or some thing else for the rest of the name - who can say? </font>
Because IATA would have a rather large committee to ok all of this through and someone did not want to wait for two or three more years to get everyone to agree to the name change in the three official languages.