Originally Posted by
ANAmateur
I'm a fairly regular flyer on Middle Eastern routes, in the arrival announcement thanking us for our custom, I have noticed that the Arabic announcement often includes the words "Britain Air". I'm not an Arabic speaker, so there may be a good reason for this, but has anyone else heard this? Is "British Airways" impossible to say in Arabic?
From a strictly linguistic standpoint a proper noun is a proper noun and does not change with a change in language. Scotch Tape in French is Scotch Tape. British Airways is British Airways in Arabic. Of course there are accent pronunciations of the proper noun.
I'm not too sure why the CC that was making this announcement was saying that (albeit in Arabic). I've been on a few flights to DXB and usually hear the Arabic with "Breetish Avweys" somewhere in there.