cactus callsign driving controllers nuts

[get2flyin]

The new callsign is Cactus. Just deal with it.

Bingo! Regardless if it's "Cactus", "USAir" or "Trash-truck", who really cares? Like all changes, it takes a little time to get use to, but I think it's safe to say we're there. If a pilot/controller is still having trouble with it nearly two weeks later, maybe they need to find a new line of work.

Having a unified call-sign didn't change anybodies paygrade or standing in the industry. Why is this even a big deal?

 

[realmanofgenius]

it isn't a big deal, but to the new york center controller, it was...

 

[b707guy]

I didn't understand what was behind the controller's confusion with a jet painted in USAirways colors while passing through IAD last week, but now it makes sense. Hopefully, it'll all be moot in two days when the tracking code switches to AWE.

Back to the drifted but more interesting aspect of this thread, a number of people over the years have confused KWRI, McGuire AFB in WRIghtstown NJ with Wright-Patterson AFB, whose ident, FFO, came from FairField-Osborn. Those two towns merged as Fairborn after Osborn was basically overrun by the reservior system construction for the Huffman dam.