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Flight Numbers Explained: How Airlines Decide Route Numbers
Sitting in a bright corner office of the ninth floor of Chicago’s Willis Tower, Patrick Quayle, VP of international network at United Airlines, beams as I walk in to meet him. Earlier this month, United Airlines announced new service between Newark and Cape Town, South Africa, one of the first carriers in the United States to ever offer that route, and the airline’s only service into sub-Saharan Africa. We’re here to talk not necessarily about why United chose that route, but how the route… (thepointsguy.co.uk) More...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Probably the most iconic flight numbers were PA001 and PA002 for Pan Am's round-the-world service.
Interesting. I have noticed that some AAL domestic flights carry the same flight number in both directions, so a MIA-RDU and RDU-MIA (returning with the same a/c and crew I think) carries just one flight number. Not sure of the reason but noticed this last year.
Something to do with not running out of flight numbers. AA used to run 1158 FLL-PAP and PAP-FLL on the AM flight and 22 77 both ways when they had the PM FLL-PAP flight. Not sure were flight 1158 and 2277 go now
"Not sure were flight 1158 and 2277 go now"
Uhmmmmm, this is the Flightaware website, it's not too hard to find out...
Uhmmmmm, this is the Flightaware website, it's not too hard to find out...
Seems to be quite a common thing for them. In my home country, they used 2703 for both the MIA-POS and return POS-MIA legs.
Similarly, my favorite to Aruba AUA from Philly PHL and back, both flights AA870.