History of AA flight #9
Nov 24, 2018, 1:38 pm
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History of AA flight #9
I thought that for the past few decades that all of AA’s single digit flight numbers were assigned to flight between LAX/JFK and DFW/Hawaii.
Today I learned that AA9 now flies MSY-DFW. Seems odd - has AA9 been assigned to this route for decades like the other single digit flight numbers? If yes, why? If no, what route was it historically assigned to?
Today I learned that AA9 now flies MSY-DFW. Seems odd - has AA9 been assigned to this route for decades like the other single digit flight numbers? If yes, why? If no, what route was it historically assigned to?
Nov 24, 2018, 1:53 pm
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Glancing through some historic timetables, it looks like AA9 did previously serve JFK-LAX. But it wasn't consistently on the schedule (for instance, it's missing from the 2001 timetable).
Nov 24, 2018, 1:57 pm
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I think the numbering became very scrambled with the two major mergers/acquisitions, TW and US.
I do miss the day of single-digit flight numbers exclusively on the transcons and Hawaii, though!
I do miss the day of single-digit flight numbers exclusively on the transcons and Hawaii, though!
Nov 24, 2018, 4:00 pm
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Nov 24, 2018, 5:52 pm
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The same flight numbers were used by Pan Am for their daily round the world flights, one going east and the other going west. At any instant in time there would be two of them going east and two going west as the trip took over 24 hours. These routes were subsequently acquired and flown by UA although UA discontinued the eastbound segment out of Delhi and the westbound into Delhi after a few years. I had taken these flights on numerous occasions and as a result ended up with a lifetime Clipper Club membership which was converted into a Delta Lifetime Crown Club membership when Delta acquired Pan Am's European routes and the Frankfurt hub.
Nov 24, 2018, 6:37 pm
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Then 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19 were PHX-JFK, with the even numbers the return.
Those kept for a while into the US merger.
Nov 25, 2018, 12:57 am
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