Questions tagged [flight-numbers]
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What's the deal with time-varying alphanumeric callsigns?
The other day a friend of mine was flying Dubai to Washington (OMDB->KIAD) and the IATA flight number was EK231. I decided to track the departure on FlightRadar24 (hereafter F24). F24 told me that ...
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Private plane without a flight number - is it illegal?
This article from the Detroit News describes the arrest of a rapper on various charges, which aren't relevant here. However, there are a couple of aviation-related statements in it that seem to imply ...
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Number of US Commercial Aircraft versus Rest of the World
I have been trying to obtain information on the number of commercial passenger aircraft (i.e. jetliners) that US airline companies have compared with the number airlines for the whole rest of the ...
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Can an airline rewrite a flight's origin airport for the day, following an earlier diversion?
Suppose a domestic US civilian carrier regularly flies flight N directly from airport A to airport B, and flies back flight M from B to A.
Now, one day, the aircraft flying N is diverted to airport C, ...
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Can an airline schedule two same-number flights to leave the same airport on the same day?
I've read: Why have different flights with the same flight number?
and I guess I understand this can make sense. But - is it allowed for a domestic US airline to schedule two flights with the same ...
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