FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Why a different callsign than flight number?
Thread: Why a different callsign than flight number?
View Single Post
Old Apr 2, 2007 | 3:57 pm
  #7  
UNITED959
FlyerTalk Evangelist
10 Countries Visited
20 Countries Visited
30 Countries Visited
25 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 20,405
This happens for all the multi-segment, same flight number flights.

UA 941 = FRA-ORD-LAX. Generally, the FRA-ORD goes by UA 941, whereas the ORD-LAX gets the 8xxx number.

Also, the "UA 8527" that the OP found which operates YYZ-ORD is a UA codeshare number for an Air Canada-operated flight. ATC will "call" that flight as Air Canada 513.
UNITED959 is offline