QF seems right for Qantas. When an announcement is made in a terminal for "all passengers please go to gate to board Qantas Flight 1", it seems fair to call Qantas Flight 1 QF1.
Hence QF seems a fair code to use for Qantas.
Hence QF seems a fair code to use for Qantas.
But announcements for all airlines are of nature "passengers for XXX flight N" ; don't see that meaning anything
"Passengers for Emirates Flight 412...." for example
"Passengers for Emirates Flight 412...." for example
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Don't you mean "y" - such as YYZ, YUL, YVROriginally Posted by moa999
And then you have the canadian x airports
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Older airfields (1930s) used to use the 2 letter abbreviation of their weather station. When they started needing more codes, they added another letter.Originally Posted by imt24
Also, my understanding was 'X' meant international - such as LAX, BHX...
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Aaah, but the "H" in MH means "Hospitality" Originally Posted by whughes3
or the "H" in MH etc etc etc...in short, nothing at all. .
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Originally Posted by og
..and closer to home, the old TAA (Trans Australia Airlines) used TN. It was then swallowed into Qantas. Now TN is used by Air Tahiti Nui.
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Another example for both of these, a couple of years ago I flew YM out of TGD. It wasn't my first flight on YM, I had a few flights on YM many years earlier around 1990/1. (YM= Montenegro Airlines now and many years ago it was Compass a long since dead airline in Australia). TGD is Podgorica, Montenegro, which used to be called Titograd.Originally Posted by RooFlyer
Diversion of topic to airport codes. Doesn't look like these are change-able very easily.