Tortured language from the world of aviation

by Matthew Stibbe on November 20, 2007

From this week’s Flight magazine (Straight and Level, 20-26 November 2007):

Dubai Aerospace Enterprise announced “DAE, the global aerospace manufacturing and services corporation, and GE have reached a memorandum of understanding for a global co-operation understanding.”

Then there is the American Airlines VP for passenger services called (seriously) Chuck Imhof.

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    Shama Hyder November 21, 2007 at 5:23 am

    Matthew-Can someone please tell Dubai Aersospace that my company can help? = ) This is Corporate Communication at its worst.

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