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Old Jan 17, 2017, 11:44 am
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Alaska Airlines 3931 - 1/17/2017 YVR-SFO

I accidentally discovered an odd Alaska Airlines flight in google: Link

It shows Alaska Airlines 3931 for today from YVR-SFO. It is listed as departing ANC at 12:52 and arriving YVR at 5:10pm, continuing on to depart YVR at 5:50pm and arrive SFO at 8:12pm.

Is this a cargo flight that google somehow mistakenly has offered up in its flight status search?

It doesn't seem to turn up on the AlaskaAir.com website flight status, so I'm a bit confused.

Any ideas?
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Old Jan 17, 2017, 11:47 am
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Looks like a ghost in the Google machine. Neither flightstats nor flightaware have a record of the flight.

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Old Jan 17, 2017, 11:51 am
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Seems to be scheduled for tomorrow too: Link

How odd! I checked the Alaska Cargo schedule and that flight doesn't seem to be there either: https://www.alaskaair.com/content/ca...-schedule.aspx

I'm really confused!
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Old Jan 17, 2017, 11:51 am
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A 3000 number would indicate a flight operated by Sky West.
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Old Jan 17, 2017, 11:57 am
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Doesn't seem to be any Skywest flights from ANC-YVR I can find, and no Skywest flights from YVR-SFO at that time.

I'm really curious now!
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Old Jan 17, 2017, 12:05 pm
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Cargo flights are 7000-series flight numbers. Probably just a typo of some kind.
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Old Jan 17, 2017, 9:14 pm
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Originally Posted by Chugach
Cargo flights are 7000-series flight numbers. Probably just a typo of some kind.
Never realized that.

Is 7xxx flights used exclusively for cargo?

Know 9xxx tends to be repositions...
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Old Jan 17, 2017, 9:42 pm
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Never realized that.

Is 7xxx flights used exclusively for cargo?

Know 9xxx tends to be repositions...
Somewhere in a thread long, long ago there was a detailed listing of how AS does their flight numbers. It has got to be around somewhere. 9xxx is broken in to sets for repositions, private charters, additional segments, etc.
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Old Jan 17, 2017, 10:22 pm
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Originally Posted by beaver
Somewhere in a thread long, long ago there was a detailed listing of how AS does their flight numbers. It has got to be around somewhere. 9xxx is broken in to sets for repositions, private charters, additional segments, etc.
I seem to recall this thread...somewhere
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Old Jan 18, 2017, 7:40 am
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It's a training flight (used for CSA training). If Google is reading raw Sabre, it could find any number of odd flights.
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Old Jan 18, 2017, 7:43 am
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Should have booked it and then show up at the airport with your Google boarding pass
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