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They already have a better solution. Did you see AAA777 to Las Vegas. So they are able to add alpha to numerics, when needed. Return flights sharing the number? Why not.


Are you sure that’s a real flight number, and you’re not confusing it with AAL777 (which would be AA’s ICAO code, AA being IATA)?

I don’t think alphanumeric flight numbers are a thing currently.


AF296Q was a flight which crashed in 1988

They are rare though


They are not very rare. Letter suffixes are very common in Europe to avoid potential ambiguity. However they do not change the actual flight number portion. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/clearing-up-call-sign-con...


Call signs have letters sure, but while I think I’ve seen letters on departure boards they are rare.


Is that meant to be a slot machine reference? "May all your slot machines come up sevens"?


> Did you see AAA777 to Las Vegas.

That's just a typo in the article, the actual flight number is AA777

https://www.airportia.com/flights/aa777/dallas-fort-worth/la...




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