Talk:Flight number

is the business about "over 9000" real, substantiated evidence, or just a very sneaky meme from 4chan? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.22.110.144 (talk) 12:49, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I am, or rather I was, 216.185.194.21 (at a different computer now.) I'm just curious why my edits, which as far as I know were factually correct, were reverted. This isn't meant to be hostile -- I'd like to know if I tripped afoul of some rule or something, so as to avoid this sort of thing in future.71.107.71.5 03:21, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

A few reasons, there are already enough examples, and the information is extra information that doesn't add much more to the content, you can either remove the other two examples, leave it as is, or add just American Airlines Flight 1 as an example. -- SmthManly / ^ManlyTalk / ^{ManlyContribs} 04:05, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

The part about unique identity for (date, airline, fltno) is wrong. Airlines can reuse a flight number on a given day. The tuple (date, airline, fltno, origin) works for scheduled flights but it is not enough for keeping in/out time history since a gate return (e.g. to deplane a drunken passenger) will cause two departures from the same city. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.55.114 (talk) 21:44, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

flight 1 table?

Is there a point to this? If there is something special about flight 1 that makes it important enough to deserve a table that takes up half the article somoene should try to compose a whole sentence at least explaining so.

Gjxj (talk) 21:35, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Earlier in the article it mentions that flight number 1 for an airline is often used for one of their “flagship” flights, a long-winded list of examples of airlines’ “flight number 1”s followed. The list was extensive enough that I felt there should definitely be a table rather than just continually adding more example flights to the paragraph (thankfully someone else had already created that table separately in the article), so I removed the long list of examples in the paragraph and referenced the table further down in the article. Dan1322 (talk) 05:12, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

IATA vs ICAO again. Alphanumeric flight number after airline name?

How did the use of both digits and letters as a flight number come about--to take a very recent example, Ryanair Flight 4978 is also referred to in that article as Ryanair 1TZ. How are these types of codes arrived at, is this now preferred by ATC, and will this have any bearing on consumer travel planning? Thanks, - knoodelhed (talk) 18:25, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

NZ1/ANZ1

On Sep 17 2022, NZ1 is set to change to JFK -> AKL. 2404:440C:17CB:9B00:DC7E:F5E0:9BAC:D352 (talk) 08:54, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

Unanswered questions

Some questions I hoped this article would answer but does not: Are flight numbers required for every flight of every aircraft? If not, when and for which flights and aircraft are they required? What about non-airline private aircraft and flights? Do flight numbers need to be registered or published? 64.16.13.97 (talk) 14:50, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Confusing image

The text says "two-character airline designator and a 1 to 4 digit number" but the adjacent image shows "RUS 1727" and "H 028". It's a "split-flap" display so I suppose the photographer might have got an image while it was in the process of updating itself but it would be better to use a less confusing image, I think. Lingvano (talk) 15:56, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps also worth mentioning that the articles mentions the example of "AF296Q", which doesn't seem to agree with the description in the first sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lingvano (talk • contribs) 16:10, 5 August 2024 (UTC)