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ok so. am i the only one who thinks it's weird that when some airliner goes down or has something very bad happen to it, we talk about ExampleAirâ„¢ Flight 101, which is the name for a scheduled flight that happens every week or so? like, it's not a particularly unique name, right?
if they came up with a better numbering scheme for disasters then they wouldn't have to retire the flight number when a plane on a particular route crashes
@hikari I think that even if they had a better numbering scheme, they'd still have to retire the flight numbers, and people would still use them the same way
combination of superstition (not wanting to be on a flight with the same number as one that crashed) and the media wanting to report on it with the most easily understood number (and they also wouldn't have a "disaster number" or whatever for the initial reporting, so all the momentum would still be on the flight number)
@hikari I would assume they mainly add that last part so that it narrows down the route this happened on and if people know loved ones flew with the airline they can find out if they have to worry
@hikari usually when a major accident happens on a flight, the airline retires that flight number