¿You know whyé y cómo an aerosolínea defines the núgrouper of a flight? An answer to a very interesting question, hereí I tell you.
Perhaps, did you ever wonderóhow n is definedúflight grouper that isás próI'm ready to board, It is certainly an interesting topic., Although there is no exact rule, sí there are a few coupleámeters that allow us to understand that número.
First, Let's take a real life example.:
- Flight LP2471
Let's break it down into parts as the next step to understand whaté is what we are seeing:
- LP: cóI say IATA of the airlineínea, in this case it is LATAM Perú.
- 2471: The núflight grouper between México and lima.
as we see, a núflight grouper, contains informationón of the aerolícompany that operates it, is núgrouper has the following characterímain statics:
- Núflight grouperán made up of 1 a 4 dígitos.
- It is núgrouper can be from 1 al 9999.
let's keep going, now that we understand cómo isá conformed, let's see the charactersíadditional statics of a numberúflight grouper:
- In the case of aerosolísubsidiaries of a holding company, the first 2 dígitos correspond to your núwithin the organizationón of the aerolínea.
- The aerosolsílines designate groups of dídifferent gitos for sun flightséstics to international flights.
- The núflight grouper ending in pair generally corresponds to the outward flight, while the odd to the return.
- Generally this assignmentón is even to the north and odd to the south, the return flight often being a dayígito greater than the ida.
- The núflight grouper can define a país, región u horario de operationón, for instance:
- Flights CM127 and CM101, the first operates to Santa Cruz and the second to Cordoba, but they operate in the same time group, That's why he shares the dílittle 1, while the rest of dígitos describe país and city.
- some aerosolílines assign their numbersúflight groupers by importance, the example flight being AA1 máIt's important in the network of destinations that an AA993.
- The assignmentóIt can't be manual, by caráI choose or by decisionón even commercial than airline systemsípredefine by destination.
Once we have a clear idea of whyé the n are assignedúflying groupers, Let's see some specifics:
- The Núcrash flight grouperséprisoners are not used again.
- The aerosolsíairlines are careful when assigning flights to certain destinations, such as towards China where the número 8 is considered lucky, so they try to use it with meás frequency or avoid using the 666 O 13.
- Some flights are assigned by particularities of X destination, as date of foundationón or until cóI say telephoneónico.
- They avoid using núgroupers that can generate confusionón with a type of aircraft.
THE DESIGNATION OF AN AIRLINE FLIGHT NUMBER , IT IS DEFINED BY THE COMPANY'S PLANNING AND THIS CODING IS SENT TO THE AERONAUTICS, TO THE FUEL COMPANIES, TO THE CATERINS AND OTHER FLIGHT PLANS, TO EMPLOYEES FOR PAYROLL PAYMENTS, TO THE CREW, TO THE MECHANICS, TO INTERLINE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES, SO IT IS A CORE OF THE COMPANY, FOR FISCAL AND FINANCIAL CONTROLS.
Thank you very much Alvaro for the additional contribution.
And on the other hand, what happens with the REGISTRATIONS OF SCRAPPED AIRCRAFT?
Because these can be REPEATED, for instance, If I'm looking for the registration of a 747-200 de Singapore Airlines (obviously scrapped) in jetphotos, I find that today 777-300 from the same airline takes it.
It is normal for many countries to recycle license plates, Given the high demand for these. For example, in Chile there are new aircraft from the factory that carry DC-3 aircraft registration plates., let's say as an example CC-BAA.
Electricity OFF-011 still used despite the accident 747 in Improved Field (MAD), and is from the same airline.
thanks john, a very nice feature. Do you know if they stopped using it for some time or did it always stay?
On the other hand, the flight AF447 damaged in 2009, flew from south to north, but it is an odd flight number… So those described patterns are not always fulfilled.
Of course, son “trends” which are generally applied, in others not. thanks for watching!
the LH 511 (EZE-FRA) AZ is also the exception to the rule 681 (EZE-FCO) also return flights 510 and 680 respectively
In Avianca Colombia, two flight numbers involved in accidents are still used… El AV11 FOOD BOOK, and the AV52 LIM-BOG… The AV11 was the incident of 1983 in Madrid, and the AV52 was the 1990 In New York.
The thing about not reusing plane crash flight numbers is a lie. Recently I wanted to go to Istanbul and the flight number was TK800 (Bogota- istanbul) and curiously I was reading about the accident of the twa 800 who inspired the final destination movie
Sebastian, but within the same airline, one was TW the other was the one you flew with TK, it's not a lie.
But they are two different airlines, the post refers to flight numbers within the same airline
Very good answer to an old question. Thanks!
Interesting,
Thanks!
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Genial. Thank you
very illustrative and interesting
Everything that has to do with LATAM Brasilia to Chile interests me
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