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Old Dec 16, 2019, 8:51 am
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Long Zhiren
 
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Flights going to/from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan will have lots of 8's (rhymes with the word for prospering) and avoids 4's (rhymes with the word for dead).
Naturally, flight 888 serves PEK.
Maybe this pattern holds for Australia, LAX and SFO flights for similar reasons based on related customer make-up?

There's not many row 13's on planes. I'm surprised there's so many rows in the 40's. I will look at the seat maps coming out of China and see how many row 40 seats are not pre-selected...

Last edited by Long Zhiren; Dec 16, 2019 at 9:00 am
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