Matt D From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9502 posts, RR: 51 Posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 660 times:
Something I've always wondered about.
Who decides that the 9AM flight between LAX-ORD is flight #1206. Or that the 1:20PM flight between DFW-EWR is flight #488?
How are those numbers determined? Is there any methodology to that; say even numbers correspond to north and west routes and odd numbers to south and east routes?
Do the "mainline" (LAX-JFK) routes get the low digit (say 10-99), "secondary" routes (SJC-LAS) get middle digit (100-999), and the "podunk" routes (LAX-BFL) get high digit (1000-9999) numbers?
Lubcha132 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 2776 posts, RR: 8 Reply 1, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 650 times:
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 2, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 5 days 15 hours ago) and read 642 times:
In timetables they show the difference in flight numbers between codeshare and regional flights.
For mainline routes, I'm not to sure. But I know many Transcon and International flights are double digits.
Ex. Delta: ATL-LGW #002
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