Weird Airline Flight Number ???

Doug Taylor said:
I've heard some flight numbers with letters. A couple of Skywest flights, some Americans, some NWA's.

I've done some 9000-series flight numbers and the flight plan said something like "EQPT STUB". I don't know what it means, but if flight 123 becomes flight 9781, it's flight 9781 and I don't waste precious brain time trying to figure it out.
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Simple Grasshopper....

Flight 123 still exists technically, both with Delta dispatch and the FAA. You are in fact just flying the "unused portion" of that flight. In order to not confuse the dispatcher or FAA (not that they aren't in a constant state of confusion anyway) you get one of the 9000 series call signs. If you had ever listened to the boarding announcements you would have hear "Flight 123".

But then you knew all this, right? Woo Hoo!
 
Delta and the DCI carriers will fly revenue flights in the 9000 range for extra segments and the like. There were a bunch in and out of DTW durring the superbowl. We had a set of extra segments CVG-BGR-MCO-CVG to cover for a flight that was oversold by 22 people (on a 50 seat RJ). Of the 72 people 30-some were going to MCO so they flew a 40-seat CRJ non stop BGR-MCO. 3:45 on a CRJ...No freaking way man. It went out almost full with 39 people onboard. The fkight numbers in the reservation system (and boarding anouncements) was 9461, 9462, and 9463 for the three segments. Done a few other revenue flights where the only flight number associated with the flight was 9XXX.
 
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