Comments on: The Secret Lives of Flight Numbers https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/ THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE SITE FOR EVERYONE WHO FLIES Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:36:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Peter https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-411296 Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:36:19 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-411296 Alaska Airlines’ recently discontinued flight from SFO to AUS bore the number 512, which is Austin’s “traditional” area code.

]]> By: Korneel https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-410617 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:47:27 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-410617 KLM’s AMS to BOS flight is: KL617. I don’t know if this is a coincidence or not but 617 is one of Boston’s area codes.

]]> By: Normantex https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-409326 Sun, 14 Sep 2025 05:12:59 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-409326 irinahnmrruio@gmail.com

]]> By: Randy S https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-402361 Wed, 29 May 2024 18:47:15 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-402361 In approximately 1996 I flew an Air France Concorde from Dulles to Orly. Flight number was AF001

]]> By: Stuart Folinsky https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-398543 Tue, 16 May 2023 19:52:44 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-398543 TWA 800 had not one, but two hull losses. One in 1964, the other in 1996. A good friend as a child was on the 1964 crash on the runway in Rome.

]]> By: CAG https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-398315 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:59:18 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-398315 In the 1990s, United had a Denver to Columbus flight designated UA1492.

]]> By: Thomas https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-398263 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 16:11:29 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-398263 In the early 1980s I was on a Pan Am 747 that had just arrived at JFK from Frankfurt. As we were taxiing in to the terminal, one of the pilots came on the PA system to tell us passengers that there was a Concorde also taxiing in on a neighboring taxiway.
It was British Airways, so the flight number would have been BA1; call sign ‘Speed Bird One’.

]]> By: Thomas https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-398262 Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:09:36 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-398262 This is in response to the comment below from Martha Aarons:
“In 1990 I believe we flew from Moscow to NY on Pan American flight #1, a 747. Can someone verify that was likely an accurate memory of the number?”

Beginning in 1947 Pan Am operated a ‘Round the World Service’. Flight #1 was from San Francisco, west-bound, across the Pacific, via Asia and Europe, then trans-Atlantic, to New York City. Flight #2 went in the opposite direction, from New York City, eastbound, to San Fransisco.
For most of its history, until airline deregulation during the Carter Administration, Pan Am did not operate any flights within the United States. A passenger on the ‘Round the World Service’ would have needed to finish their trip on a different US carrier.

]]> By: Albert DeMoya https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-398112 Sat, 04 Feb 2023 22:18:12 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-398112 Who invented the flight number? I cannot find a single reference online.

]]> By: Guillaume https://askthepilot.com/flight-numbers/#comment-398097 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:12:23 +0000 https://askthepilot.com/?p=17173#comment-398097 Finnair is AY, because it was called Aero OY when ir was given its designator.

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