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Technically speaking, Amsterdam is the official capital of the Netherlands but the government sits in The Hague. Just to be pedantic. :p

I was gonna say. You call that a Canadawank? Where's the Lesser Antilles? Where's Belize? Where's Guyana? :p

The full quote is "Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!", attributed to both Porfirio Diaz and Bismarck I believe, although no idea who actually said or wrote it. It seemed fitting to me. :o

An inversion of the old "so far from God and so close to the United States" line perhaps? Something along the lines of "So Close To God, So Far From Her Rivals"?

Or perhaps just "The Sun Never Sets" or even "The Sun Never Sets On..."? "No Chinese, Germanic, Greco-Roman, Japonic, or Slavic"? :p Anyway, I like Pluricontinental/The Sun Never Sets and Manifest Destiny, but I think my favorite is Dark Horse Superpower. Although, perhaps the concept...

Well… I spent a good half the contest period procrastinating and thinking and only the last few days working obsessively, actually. :p

Yeah right, I'll totally finish two more planes in 85 minutes. :p Honestly, it seems like mostly finished entries count, since your airline was on the poll VT45 posted by mistake a few days ago.

That's a shame. :(

And fares are much cheaper, and if you're paying for the expensive seats (or your company is) the experience is much better. The amenities in economy have suffered and people love to complain about it, but it's market pressure at work; if the average Joe chose the flight based on how good the...

Well... That's inconvenient. :o

The problem was unique to the Rolls-Royce Trent IIRC (and could potentially have struck other Trent powered aircraft I believe), which has also had some other unrelated problems in the recent past (the problem with the fuel-oil heat exchanger that caused BA38 to crash on landing, for instance)...

"Shuttle bus", from French "navette", as I don't think English influence exists ITTL. Of course, a modern form of Latin is probably more spoken than Gallian (alt-French) but I'm not a fan of the whole surviving Roman Empire with eternal unchanging Latin scenario that some people like, so I'm...

It's close to the Dutch G, I guess. It also represents voiceless palatal fricative after I and E. And in my defense, the POD is something like 350 AD. :p Map is here, although it doesn't well represent the modern state and was a quick job and thus not very good.

Infobox for my entry in VT45's contest. An airline in the countries of an alternate world thread: 2* ("second asterisk") timeline. Went with French as English per se doesn't exist in this world and the closest equivalent isn't really a world language. That and I really didn't want to use Latin.

Yeah, it is. :)

Good question I guess, since I didn't notice anything Muslim-sounding. :p:o Hafyr-Sted is the co-capital (with Lundyn) of Friesland, if that's it. :)

Page-stretchitty maps below; Europa-ruten Interxontinentel-ruten XautlandsFluyg Exspres

Slowly working towards meeting a non-slow deadline on VT45's airline contest. I started far too late and have a vanishingly slim chance of meeting it unless I do something silly like make myself tea right now and pull an all-nighter tonight, but I'm hoping I get an E for Effort. :p From the...

...I am totally not going to make this in time. :o XautlandsFluyg ruten Europa-ruten Interxontinentel-ruten XautlandsFluyg Exspres XautlandsFluyg flotta Némes N353-200 Némes N353-300 Némes N353-400 Némes N373-600 SONAECI TA4300 SONAECI TA4400...

…Seriously? I was working to that midnight deadline tomorrow and had some (tiny) chance of making it. :(