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Mark Grima
26th January 2009, 11:34 AM
Hey guys,

Firstly happy Australia Day :-)

A couple days ago my sister returned from Mexico City via LAX and NAN with Air Pacific. When my dad told me she was on FJ 911 he questioned the use of '911" as the flight number thinking that since that infamous day in our worlds history no airline would want to identify a flight by anything that could draw memories to the event. Valid point I guess but not one I had thought of.

I was at work so had a very quick look at few websites and it appears the United, American, Delta nor Qantas use 911 as a flight number, although as I said my look was very very quick so I could of missed something.

Does anyone know if any other airlines use 911 as a flight number?

Cheers

M
Lukas M
26th January 2009, 12:14 PM
Domestic wise, Qantas uses QF911 on KTA-PER, and Jetstar uses JQ911 on TSV-BNE
Mark Grima
26th January 2009, 12:46 PM
Told you it was only a quick look
phil.l
26th January 2009, 01:09 PM
Ba911 lhr-fra
Andrew P
26th January 2009, 03:24 PM
NH911 ANA Tokyo Hong Kong
Grahame Hutchison
26th January 2009, 03:28 PM
City Rail's 0911 to Liverpool ?
Bill S
26th January 2009, 03:30 PM
AP were using FJ911 when I flew for them in 1998 - 2000.
Grant Smith
26th January 2009, 04:47 PM
Using that logic, the same argument could be raised for the change of the emergency services number in the states (911)...

;)

But to keep it on topic - TG911 LHRBKK
James Smith
26th January 2009, 08:39 PM
Another thing, on the radio the callsign is pronounced nine-one-one so you are not constantly reminded of the NY events like it would be if pronounced nine-eleven.
Chris B.
26th January 2009, 09:40 PM
Another thing, on the radio the callsign is pronounced nine-one-one so you are not constantly reminded of the NY events like it would be if pronounced nine-eleven.

In Australia the likes of QF911 and JQ911 would be pronounced Qantas/Jetstar nine-eleven. Internationally however I'm pretty sure that the standard is to pronounce each individual number.
Mark Grima
27th January 2009, 11:54 AM
Thanks guys, I am sure my dad will be be glad to know that many airlines still use 911 as their flight numbers ;-)

Cheers

M
Andrew P
27th January 2009, 11:58 AM
may have ben posted before, but an intertesting co-incidence

BOAC Flight 911 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_911)

Banjo