remember a few weeks ago we had an interesting exchange about flight numbers?
Originally Posted by
Herb687
It's funny how some flight numbers stick in your head. ... Another flight number I remember though I never took it: for years UA711 was always an ORD-LAS flight! And I believe AA1776 flew DFW-PHL.
Originally Posted by
jrl767
here's my first post (# 2775) on this thread, back in June of 2013
Originally Posted by
jrl767
that would most likely have been TWA 708, L-1011 (evening return from JFK was 701)
I also knew those without looking at my log, from having taken them easily half a dozen times each in the ~1988-94 timeframe
Originally Posted by
jlemon
And for me it's American 606 operated with a DC-10-10 from Los Angeles to San Juan via a stop at DFW back in the mid 1980's. ...
Originally Posted by
Seat 2A
Back as early as 1969, I remember flying United 164, the 830am departure from Denver to New York JFK....
Another flight number I remember well is Continental 615, my first 747 flight taken on June 15, 1971.
And finally, CO 600, which for many years back in the 1970s was my go-to flight from LAX to Denver. It was a DC-10 that departed LAX at 500pm.
Originally Posted by
jrl767
... I can doubtless come up with *many* others ...
- UA485 was about the only Caravelle that came through DCA (BWI-DCA-CMH-DAY-ORD ...)
- AA704 was an Electra that operated ORD-IND-CVG-CRW-DCA and then turned to AA789 DCA-MEM
- TW247 was one of the last Constellation flights
- NA105 was a midafternoon 727 to MIA
I was browsing some old TWA schedules on
timetableimages.com earlier today, and was quite surprised to discover that TW had kept a few flight numbers on the same routes for a **VERY** long time ...
- TW72 was a LAX-STL redeye as early as 1960 (using a 707; I flew it on a TriStar in 1986)
- TW8 was the late evening arrival from LAX into Idlewild as early as 1957 (a Super-G Constellation leaving ~1030 and arriving ~2100); I flew it on both a 747 and an L-1011 in 1987, when it departed ~1630 and arrived JFK around midnight
- TW44 was the SFO-IDL redeye that operated with a Jetstream (L-1649A) in 1959, and an L-1011 when I flew it to JFK in 1989