Talk:Lufthansa

Lufthansa
Purely an airline, belongs in Wikipedia--Pilot 12:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Keep. Major national airline. --Dmol 13:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep, possibly RfV. I think it has a life of its own in movies and novels, esp. WW II vintage. DCDuring 15:00, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Either keep, or delete all airlines. We have at least SAS, Aer Lingus, Qantas, American Airlines, Finnair, Iberia, TWA. On the other hand, many important ones are missing: Alitalia, Swissair, Austrian Airlines, Varig, Aeroflot, British Airways, Air France, TAP, LOT. 06:54, 14 November 2007 Hekaheka.


 * Perhaps we could make a case for keeping in English Wiktionary the acronyms and names that are not obvious and unconfusing to English speakers, but have some currency in English. I would expect that implementing such a proposal would lead to dropping "American Airlines", omitting "British Airways", "Air France", and "Austrian Airlines". It would mean adding "LOT", "Aeroflot", "Alitalia", "Varig", "TAP" and keeping "SAS", "Qantas", "Iberia", and "TWA". I don't know about "Aer Lingus", "Swissair" and "Finnair". DCDuring 12:11, 14 November 2007 (UTC)


 * To be more precise, TWA and SAS are in Wiktionary as initialisms. TAP and, LOT ought to be included on similar grounds. Formerly QANTAS would have made it. Varig, TAROM, Avianca, and others would make it as abbreviations. DCDuring 17:54, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Being an airline is not per se grounds for either inclusion or deletion, AFAIK. "Lufthansa" is used attributively to convey "airline", "german", "international airline", "german airline", and "nazi-controlled airline" (pre-WWII settings) in fiction. I have provided cites. If anyone would like to check, the 4 uses always convey meaning not previously available from the context, IMHO. If I've erred, I can try to find more. DCDuring 18:23, 23 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I have RfV-sense'd American Airlines, which also has a non-airline sense. Iberia does not have an airline sense. that leaves Finnair and Aer Lingus to be RfVd and cited or not. DCDuring 12:43, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. Cited with attributive use per CFI for brand names. DCDuring TALK 16:38, 24 April 2008 (UTC)