Originally Posted by
dvs7310
I've always been curious as to how CSA got OK. Seems it should be an old enough airline that plenty of combinations starting with C would have been available.
There are two theories:
i) Czech
Oslova
Kia, which is also the country registration code for aircraft (now why Slovakia got OM I don't know!). I'm sure CZ, CS and CK were all available back in 1923!
ii) CSA officials went to an IATA meeting, where some "housekeeping" matters like registration codes for airlines and a/c were being discussed. Being state bureaucrats and not industry people (not much of an industry back then, either), their foreign language skills were lacking. So, when they would be asked things, they would politely nod in approval and tend to say "OK" to whatever they were told/asked.
I can't vouch for the credibility of either.
