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Mar 28, 2017, 2:56 pm

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Originally Posted by flowersrj

What does the acronym 'AS' stand for?

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It's not an "acronym", it's a two-character IATA* airline code. Every commercial airline has a two letter code. American is AA, United is UA, and those might seem obvious. But the Delta is DL, Alaska is AS, Southwest is WN, and Jet Blue is B6.

Here's a chart which shows all of them:

http://www.iata.org/about/members/Pa....aspx?All=true

* IATA = International Air Transport Association

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