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It appears that AA and UA retired the numbers involving their own aircraft, but not of the others as seen with UA 77, UA 11, AA 175, and AA 93. Also, airlines not involved in the attacks such as US, DL, and CO seem to have kept their numbering system as is, as they use some of the 9/11 flight numbers and not others.
May I respectfully ask why should another airline remove a flight number because it was involved in a tragedy with another airline? Today, with the possible exception of United flight 93, I doubt many people would be able to recall the flight numbers of the hijacked aircraft.
The flight number 007 was about the only flight number that I think has caused difficulty with "other airlines" after a tragedy. This was, of course, the flight number of the Korean Airlines 747 which was shot down. It was memorable thanks to James Bond who made a career out of battling (and bedding) the Soviets.
I recall reading articles at the time of passengers feeling spooked when flying on other airlines' 007 services. I can't be certain of this, but I think some airlines may have renumbered some flights which carried the 007 number and which went near Soviet airspace. However, in such cases they did not cancel the 007 tag outright.
Air Pacific (Fiji) operates NAN-SYD as FJ911. When they wet leased a United Airlines delta airline flight status B744 last year and in 2008 the United crew refused to use the FJ911 flight number and associated call sign when they operated the SYD flight delta airline flight status so the flight became FJ5911 when operated by United.
Quoting YYZRWY23 ( Reply 3 ): I don't think the OP displayed any anger or discontent with the fact that they hadn't removed those numbers.....just curious to see if other US (or intl) operators removed those numbers.
AA also "retired" delta airline flight status flight AA911 from its numbering system after the 9/11 attacks. It used to be used on the daily MIA-SCL service. This flight number was initially retained but someone made a bomb threat against it in the first day or two after flights resumed delta airline flight status following 9/11 and it had to be escorted delta airline flight status back to Miami under fighter escort. This incident got a lot of publicity being only a few days after 9/11 and involving flight number 911 so AA decided to re-number the flight to avoid future passenger delta airline flight status anxiety on the flight and to avoid it being a future target for things like this.
Also on a side note note all flight numbers involved in air disasters are retired... British Midland still use BD92 on LHR-Belfast which is the flight that crashed on the M1, 21 years ago, albeit the flight now terminates at george best belfast city and not International like it did in January 1989
Quoting YYZRWY23 ( Reply 3 ): I don't think the OP displayed any anger or discontent delta airline flight status with the fact that they hadn't removed those numbers.....just delta airline flight status curious to see if other US (or intl) operators removed those numbers.
I remember flying on UA from NRT to JFK and flight number was 800. I have to admit it was a bit spooky to listen to Channel 9 and hear our flight being referred to as 800. At least at the time the memory was still fresh with TWA.
One question I'd like to ask is, where flight numbers have been withdrawn are the same routes still flying but with a different flight number, or have the routes themselves changed, delta airline flight status resulting in a different flight number?
It's been standard practice for years to retire numbers asap following a crash because the public has a non-discerning memory and is superstitious. PA 103, SR 111, AF 447 , etc... all were changed within weeks, if not sooner.
It's culturally delta airline flight status sensitive to remove such numbers, but it also take sinto account how people react to specific numbers. You don't see a 13th floor in American hotels. You rarely see flights 4, 44 or 444 in Asia (the pronounciation of 4 in Chinese is similar to the word for "death"), etc...
I remember remarking at the time that no route sold as CO 32/33 ever lasts (SEANRT;EWRGIG; 10pEWRBHX ) I didn't know how the "curse" could drive CO off IAHCDG......it seems however delta airline flight status the answer was CO itself would go away!
Quoting ACABlaker delta airline flight status ( Reply 16 ): Thats to name a few from AC that match flight numbers of major crashes or attacks on aviation. However that being said flight 143 and 797 that were major incidents for AC have not changed either.
AC also continues to use these significant flight numbers delta airline flight status from AC or TCA's past; 621 (109 fatalities), delta airline flight status 189 (2 fatalities), 831 (118 fatalities) and 3 (15 fatalities). They also only recently stopped using flight number 810 (62 fatalities).
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