Slawko From Canada, joined May 1999, 3790 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (4 years 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 251 times:
That has always been the way AC has assigned flight numbers..it has nothing to do with Canada. Airlines assign flight numbers as they see fit.
AC, as well as many others assign specific number sets to types of routes. a 4XX flight number is rapidair, 8XX are generally overseas with some USA Exceptions, 9XX are south, 1XX are western domestic, etc etc etc...Im sure that all goes back to they days of manual scheduling, and reservation systems, easier to remember/assign flights when there is some method to the system.
[Edited 2004-11-07 04:12:26]
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MadViking From Canada, joined Jul 2003, 107 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (4 years 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 219 times:
Slawko is quite right. The airline chooses it's own system to relate flight numbers to it's routes. SAS for example on international flights uses 9## odd numbers for flights outbound from Scandinavia and even number for inbound to Scandinavia. Canada 3000 use to number flights by the day of the week it was operating, hence a 3## was a Wednesday flight!
TWA902fly From United States, joined Dec 1999, 2744 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (4 years 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 181 times:
Actually if you take a look at UA flights.... here are some examples
even (EAST/NORTH)
UA 202 LAX-IAD
UA 1140 DEN-BWI
UA 1010 ORD-DAY
UA 1400 SFO-LAS-DEN
UA 1200 ORD-GSO
UA 998 SFO-SEA
UA 1222 MIA-IAD
UA 1558 MCO-IAD
UA 1166 ABQ-DEN
UA 658 SAN-LAX
odd (WEST/SOUTH)
UA 877 EWR-ORD-KIX
UA 455 MHT-ORD-TUS
UA 333 LGA-DEN
UA 145 ORD-SFO
UA 1111 YYZ-ORD
UA 861 BOS-IAD-GRU-GIG
UA 1139 YVR-SFO
UA 975 EWR-ORD-MEX
UA 915 CDG-IAD-SJO
UA 475 BTV-ORD-MSY
you get the point... i am sure there are some exceptions, but i have noticed that even their express and codeshares with other airlines seem to follow these rules, for instance their codes on Air Canada flights go along with the way they number their flights, same with USAirways, Lufthansa, etc...
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