Azul Linhas Aéreas is the name of a brazilian airline founded 10 years ago by David Neeleman.
In the brazilian market they are:
- 1st in number of destinations
- 2nd in number of aircraft
- 3rd in number of passangers
Fig.1: Azul's Embraer ERJ195 (PR-AYA) [2]
The origin of the airline's name is interesting, as explained by the brazilian aviation legend (I take the responsibility of this designation) Gianfranco Beting, a.k.a. Panda, in the brazilian's Youtube vloger (Aero por Trás da Aviação) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ThXtJasw3I.
They launched the challenge to the public to choose the name of a brand new brazilian airliner!
The result: +158 000 people took the challenge and then voted in the chosen ones
The result: +158 000 people took the challenge and then voted in the chosen ones
Samba and Azul where the first and second most voted, respectively.
When David Neeleman met Frederico Curado (CEO of Embraer) and announced the results, Curado told Neeleman Samba would be a bad choice because if a flight is delayed, people would say the flight "sambou" - a brazilian expression meaning it's gone/we've lost it.
So the name became Azul (blue in portuguese), related with another David Neeleman's airline: Jet Blue.
If you want to learn more about Gianfranco and Joselito Sousa (two brazilian aviation experts I had the pleasure to meet in LusoAvia - an unprecedented event of the Lusophony aeronautic sector, in October 2017), you must see a conversation between them (in portuguese): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2SgZGugU00&t=11s
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