Flairport From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (9 years 3 months 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 1035 times:
Airline Southwest
Flight Number 6231
Departure City (Airport) Orlando, FL (MCO)
Departure Time 02/16/2004 06:39 PM
Arrival City (Airport) Fort Lauderdale, FL (FLL)
Arrival Time 02/16/2004 07:13 PM
Remaining Flight Time 00:00
Aircraft Type Boeing 737-300
Current Altitude 4,900 feet
Current Groundspeed 294 mph
Flight Status In Flight
Airline Southwest
Flight Number 6231
Departure City (Airport) New Orleans, LA (MSY)
Departure Time 02/16/2004 03:40 PM
Arrival City (Airport) Orlando, FL (MCO)
Arrival Time 02/16/2004 06:05 PM
Remaining Flight Time 00:00
Aircraft Type Boeing 737-300
Current Altitude 0 feet
Current Groundspeed 0 mph
Flight Status Arrived
Airline Southwest
Flight Number 6231
Departure City (Airport) Houston, TX (HOU)
Departure Time 02/16/2004 02:25 PM
Arrival City (Airport) New Orleans, LA (MSY)
Arrival Time 02/16/2004 03:08 PM
Remaining Flight Time 00:00
Aircraft Type Boeing 737-300
Current Altitude 0 feet
Current Groundspeed 0 mph
Flight Status Arrived
now...there is nothing unusual about the routing, but i've never seen a flight in the 6000s....is this a charter or extra segment and if it is a charter, who'd want to charter WN?
Canoecarrier From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2657 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (9 years 3 months 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 998 times:
I don't know why the 6000 number, but I do know they do charter. I once worked the SMU football charter when they came to town on a WN plane.
OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (9 years 3 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 879 times:
The reason for the 6231 flight number was that this was originally supposed to be -231- and that the flight was "stubbed" with a different aircraft and crew.
Say, 231 goes from XYZ-HOU-MSY-MCO-FLL, and the flight is really late on the XYZ-HOU leg. If there was supposed to be a crewchange in HOU anyway, we'll find a different aircraft (if we can) and use it with the fresh crew to originate 231 from HOU -ontime-. The problem is we can't potentially have -two- flight 231s (XYZ-HOU and HOU-MSY) in the air at the same time, so we add 6000 to the regular flight number, and voila', the HOU-MSY and subsequent legs are all 6231. Sometimes we do this even when a scheduled crewchange isn't planned--we just find another crew somewhere, if we can.
Because SWA has regular flight numbers in the 1000 and 2000 series, you will also sometimes see flight numbers in the 7000 series and 8000 series.
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