Flight number
A flight number (international English flight number ) is an ordinal number that is used to identify a certain flight connection of an airline .
Flight numbers usually have up to four, rarely five digits. To enable a flight number to be assigned to an airline, the IATA code or, more rarely, the ICAO code of the operating airline is prefixed. For visual reasons, leading zeros are usually given below three-digit ranges for flight numbers, but can also be omitted. The flight number is used both operationally, for example in air traffic control , and for orientation for passengers on display boards and travel documents.
Flights that require a change of aircraft are usually not given as the same flight number, while a continuous flight number is common for stopovers. Through code sharing , it is possible that a flight has not only one but several flight numbers.
Many airlines use a system for their flight numbers that reserves certain number ranges, for example for intercontinental flights, or assigns a certain numbering scheme to outward and return flights. Other airlines, on the other hand, create the flight numbers by dividing them into different regions and different ranges of numbers.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flight number in the Business Dictionary
- ↑ Flight number in the travel dictionary E-travel-pedia
- ↑ How Do Airlines Create Flight Numbers? at WiseGeek
- ↑ Aviation Lexicon : Flight number on Luftpiraten.de
- ↑ Do you recognize a code-sharing flight from the flight number? on Focus Online