
an old 1990's Peach Air survey
A & F Aviation has changed its name to Peach, which is said to symbolise happiness, long life and energy. With 10 planes to start with it will be based at Osaka. It looks as though it will not become a long haul no-frills airline like Air Asia but stay servicing the China-Japan-Korea-Philippines markets. But to call it Peach? It’s a bit snappier than “A&F” but detractors will have fun when it eventually starts next year.
And talking of odd names, TheTimes yesterday had a story about a new hotel chain that is about to be set up. It will be called The Pig and will be a chain of country hotels with attitude – whatever that means. Again, rival hotels could have a field day with the name. There are youth hostels in Amsterdam called The Flying Pig and umpteen pubs with similar names.
It goes to show that there is still some humour in tourism!