Just watched MayDay about Air Transat 236 gliding into Azores...
Mar 13, 2018, 7:17 pm
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Just watched MayDay about Air Transat 236 gliding into Azores...
Just watched MayDay about Air Transat 236 gliding into Azores...
and realized that they are still using that flight number to go to PUJ!
Why wouldn't they retire that flight number after incidents like other airlines?
and realized that they are still using that flight number to go to PUJ!
Why wouldn't they retire that flight number after incidents like other airlines?
Mar 13, 2018, 7:22 pm
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AA1 has had three fatal crashes -- one in the jet age, and two in the propeller age -- and it is still used for one of AA's JFK-LAX morning nonstops. And rightly so.
Mar 14, 2018, 2:38 pm
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The only flight number with any airline I'd be weary of flying on is 191.
Mar 17, 2018, 3:40 pm
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Mar 21, 2018, 11:40 am
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There is no rational reason to retire a flight number, and a seemingly limitless number of irrational reasons to retire a flight number.
