Post your coolest Flight Numbers you have been on!
Nov 13, 2018, 3:16 pm
#48
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LCY is always preferred
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Curious to know what the call signs were for AF 1 and 2 on Concorde. #1 was JKF/CDG-AF2 was CDG/JFK
Still something special about Speedbird One (even without the Concorde addition)
Nov 13, 2018, 3:28 pm
#51
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: The KUL city
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Posts: 2,662
Back when UA operated JFK-SFO; UA 7, T7, Gate 7 (IIRC that was the gate)
Also, AA 1, Gate 1 (JFK-LAX) - Saved my BP
Other #1 flights:
NZ1: LHR-LAX
UA1: LAX-HKG
MH1: LHR-KUL
QF1: SYD-DXB
Had quite a few flight #123/1234 too:
MH123: KUL-SYD
AA123: DFW-HNL
UA123: ORD-LAX
UA1234: LAS-IAH
LH1234: FRA-VIE
Other triple numbers:
A3111: SKG-ATH
UA111: SFO-LAX
SQ111: KUL-SIN
SA333: JNB-CPT
UA444: LAX-SFO (This flight number won't work well in Asia)
AC555: LAX-YVR
CX777: HKG-CGK (only once operated by 777, the rest was 333 lol)
Other plane type numbers:
BA747: SVG-LHR
Also, AA 1, Gate 1 (JFK-LAX) - Saved my BP
Other #1 flights:
NZ1: LHR-LAX
UA1: LAX-HKG
MH1: LHR-KUL
QF1: SYD-DXB
Had quite a few flight #123/1234 too:
MH123: KUL-SYD
AA123: DFW-HNL
UA123: ORD-LAX
UA1234: LAS-IAH
LH1234: FRA-VIE
Other triple numbers:
A3111: SKG-ATH
UA111: SFO-LAX
SQ111: KUL-SIN
SA333: JNB-CPT
UA444: LAX-SFO (This flight number won't work well in Asia)
AC555: LAX-YVR
CX777: HKG-CGK (only once operated by 777, the rest was 333 lol)
Other plane type numbers:
BA747: SVG-LHR
Nov 13, 2018, 3:45 pm
#53
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mostly UK
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I was a regular on BD1 for a few months. Until recently my most frequent flight as BA1337 which reminds me of ‘leet speak’ which was popular among certain groups of people when I was a student 
Nov 13, 2018, 3:50 pm
#54
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold / Hilton Diamond / IHG Diamond Ambassador / Marriot Bonvoy Gold
Posts: 2,527
Nov 13, 2018, 4:53 pm
#58
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 597
In January, 1978, I had a reservation on UA Flight 666 from CLE-DCA and was working at an all-news radio station. The Thursday night trip was for a Friday job interview, and our weather guy told me it would be a cold day in hell before I ever caught that flight. The storm of the century was coming, he told me. And he said if I didn't get in my car by 830pm that Wednesday night and head east at 50 miles per hour, I'd never make it to DC alive. I thought he was joking, but he assured me repeatedly he was not.
They called that storm the Cleveland Superbomb, and he was right that Flight 666 did not operate that Thursday, nor did any other flight for days. Look up Cleveland Superbomb and you will see why.
I did as Stan the Weatherman told me to do, got in the car, and hauled tail over the Alleghenies that Wednesday night.
I arrived for my job interview one day early, got the job, and never did take UA Flight 666. that time or ever again.
My other favorite flight numbers were Aloha 100 and 442, because the Nisei Boys were my idols - the most highly decorated combat unit in WWII.
They called that storm the Cleveland Superbomb, and he was right that Flight 666 did not operate that Thursday, nor did any other flight for days. Look up Cleveland Superbomb and you will see why.
I did as Stan the Weatherman told me to do, got in the car, and hauled tail over the Alleghenies that Wednesday night.
I arrived for my job interview one day early, got the job, and never did take UA Flight 666. that time or ever again.
My other favorite flight numbers were Aloha 100 and 442, because the Nisei Boys were my idols - the most highly decorated combat unit in WWII.
Nov 13, 2018, 8:46 pm
#60
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: NYC, ROC, HNL, PEN, BKK, KUL, SIN (check out http://my.flightmemory.com/kkua)
Programs: DL Diamond charter member; 2 million miler (45% from NWA, 2MM achieved 5/2018)
Posts: 682
Back when NW was still operating, their HNL-MSP flight was NW808, a nod to their area code. Then when HA began serving JFK, their intro fares were USD212 each way, as a nod to Manhattan’s area code.
Below was my coolest flight number… National π-Day on flight 314. And I shared an apple pie with the flight crew.
Below was my coolest flight number… National π-Day on flight 314. And I shared an apple pie with the flight crew.
