just wondered if you lot could help me out with a genuine query that sort of baffled me last night.
i was looking on the flight arrivals on good ol’ ceefax (no particular reason, just boredom!) and noticed for, in particular, lgw and lhr there were a lot of arrivals from the same destination at the same time( the most i counted was six in one go) they had different flight numbers so were obviously different carriers but how does this work? i appreciate ceefax isn’t exactly 21st century but is there really that many a/c take off from and heading to the same airport at the same time?
also where can i find out more about which flight number matchers which airline, please?
By: rdc1000 - 29th January 2009 at 14:58
also where can i find out more about which flight number matchers which airline, please?
The explanation to your first part has already been covered (i.e. they are all airlines selling code-shared seats on a single flight belonging to one of those airlines). On the second part, google is a wonderful monster…got to google and type in something like “SN Flight Code” or “BD Flight code” and you should very quickly find out who these ailrines are (in these cases, Brussels Airlines and bmi British Midland).
By: sekant - 29th January 2009 at 14:14
You probably came accross code shares. You have one single flight, but several flight numbers come up on the arrival info system because tickets are sold by different companies owing to the fact they belong to the same alliane. For instance, for any Swiss flight, you will have a LX number (Swiss), a LH number (Lufthansa), a OS number (Austrian) and sometimes a UA (United) number.
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January 29, 2009 at 1:10 pm