C010T3 From Brazil, joined Jul 2006, 852 posts, RR: 7 Posted (2 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 8085 times:
It has just been announced that it will be called Azul. "Azul" means "Blue" in Portuguese. The name was chosen even though "Samba" received more votes.
Nighthawk From United Kingdom (Scotland), joined Sep 2001, 3604 posts, RR: 26 Reply 4, posted (2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 7468 times:
Quoting C010T3 (Thread starter): The name was chosen even though "Samba" received more votes.
Samba is an open source implementation of the Windows file/printer sharing service. The name is fairly well established and probably trademarked - hence why it wasnt chosen despite getting more votes.
"Thats why you need people like me in the secret service" Random Drunk. Manchester. 01/08
AA1818 From Trinidad And Tobago, joined Feb 2006, 1726 posts, RR: 3 Reply 5, posted (2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 7426 times:
Also Samba would be limited in its appeal to Brazil whereas if he decided to expand across South America eventually like LAN, Blue is far more 'universal'.
Miner From Brazil, joined Aug 2007, 72 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 7416 times:
Quoting Nighthawk (Reply 4): Samba is an open source implementation of the Windows file/printer sharing service. The name is fairly well established and probably trademarked - hence why it wasnt chosen despite getting more votes.
Samba is open source and free. I also don't see the conflict as one is an airline and the other a networking protocol.
Revelation From United States, joined Feb 2005, 2100 posts, RR: 1 Reply 7, posted (2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 7365 times:
I think the most common use of Samba is
Quote: Samba (pronunciation (help·info)) is one of the most popular forms of music in Brazil. It is widely viewed as Brazil's national musical style.
And there's plenty more uses, which is why I think Samba was avoided: it just wasn't distinctive enough!
Quote: Samba may have one of the following meanings:
[edit] Culture
* Samba, a genre of Afro-Brazilian music
* Samba (film), a 2004 Telugu-language Indian film
* Samba (book) a non-fiction book about favela life and samba music by Alma Guillermoprieto
* Samba Carnival, another name for the Brazilian Carnival celebration
[edit] Dance styles
* Samba (Brazilian dance), a genre of Afro-Brazilian folk dance
* Samba (ballroom dance), a ballroom dance
* Samba de Gafieira, Brazilian ballroom samba
[edit] Software
* Samba (software), a free, open source implementation of networking protocols to share files between computers.
* Samba (web browser) (MacWWW), very early Web browser for the Macintosh written by Robert Cailliau at CERN, released 1993.
[edit] People
* Martin-Paul Samba, German collaborator and later rebel from Cameroon.
* Christopher Samba, Blackburn Rovers footballer.
* Samba (shoe), a brand of indoor soccer shoe made by Adidas
* Samba (rice), a variety of rice found in Sri Lanka.
* Samba Financial Group, a banking firm in Saudi Arabia, formerly the Saudi American Bank
* Salinas Valley Samba, a soccer team in the National Premier Soccer League
* Samba spy scandal, a spy scandal in Samba, Jammu, India in the 1970s.
* Samba, the son of Lord Krishna
* Samba, a spacecraft forming part of the Cluster mission
* Samba, a variant of the card game canasta
* Samba, a French mousse covered in ganache cake
* Samba, a name for the tropical tree Triplochiton scleroxylon in Ivory Coast
* Samba, a name for one variation of the Volkswagen Type 2
Sampa737 From Brazil, joined May 2005, 510 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 7298 times:
Livery is cool looking.
Any guesses where she'll start flying? Will she serve both CGH and GRU? SDF and GIG? Northeast? Is Azul going to in anyway somehow link Jet Blue to Brasil:
Miner From Brazil, joined Aug 2007, 72 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (2 months 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 7213 times:
Quoting Sampa737 (Reply 8): Is Azul going to in anyway somehow link Jet Blue to Brasil
B6 had applied to Latin America destinations FLL-BOG and MCO-BOG- not sure if this was approved or not.
It wouldn't surprise anyone if there would be some kind of tie-up in the future with JetBlue and the new Azul.
PZ707 From Paraguay, joined Mar 2005, 52 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 months 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 7062 times:
Keep in mind that Samba in portuguese means a shaky-shaky dance, if they choose that name in a country where people is not yet accustomed to fly in an airplane, undoubtedly they will identify flights with turbulences!!!
Dellatorre From Brazil, joined May 2000, 900 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (2 months 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 6790 times:
Quoting Mrocktor (Reply 12): That was the least horrible of the bad names proposed in the poll. They probably had it chosen beforehand. Good pick, I guess.
I have to admit "azul" is acceptable!! Far from being an ideal name though!!
LOL! Dunno what I was thinking. Thanks for catching that. I meant Congonhas, CGH. DUH to this gringo living in Sao Paulo.
As for JETBRA, I always thought BRA was stupid name for an airline, anywhere. I hated to see another airline fold here but what a name. Many in Brazil, especially the business traveler can speak some English. My 17 year old son had a motto for BRA..."BRA, seats for 2!"
I think Azul is roughly original and does tie in to the founder's JetBlue. I think the livery is cool.
ULMFlyer From Brazil, joined Sep 2006, 162 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (2 months 21 hours ago) and read 3952 times:
Quoting Tripleboom (Reply 15): Or for that matter "I Was." Nothing says your doom is imminent quite like speaking of the flyer in the past tense
Although "Fui" may indeed also be translated as "I was," the correct translation here would be "I went." Nonetheless, the true (informal) meaning would actually be "I'm out of here" or "Bye"
Quoting IRelayer (Reply 18): Well it IS the color of the sky after all!
Thank God for TCAS, after all it's hard to avoid what you can't see
According to him, they want the airline to define the name, not the name to define the airline. Azul (blue) inspires feelings like purity, safety, serenity, loyalty, quality and, of course, it brings to mind the sky and flying. At the same time, it's a more neutral name.
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