Being the slight boffin I am, sometimes in advance of a flight I try to work out what rotation the aircraft will have operated earlier in the day as it's often a good pointer for knowing if my flight will be on time.
There's a pretty good website http://www.lhr-lgw.co.uk/ for this but recently the way they display the info has changed. In the listings it seems to be a mixture of the familiar flight numbers and sometimes a slighly different number is used.
For example, this flight is EZY8792 and that's fine:
23:54 Arr EZY8792 G-EZFS A319-111 [4129] Easyjet
However this flight, which is EZY8791 shows like this:
15:17 Dep EZY791Y G-EZFS A319-111 [4129] Easyjet
Often the numbers are a jumbled round concoction of the normal flight numbers, eg. EZY87ER, EZY516M
Just wondered if anyone knows what exactly these call signs are? I've plugged a few into Google and get instant hits to http://www.libhomeradar.org/ but still can't quite work out what these numbers are all about. I've seen reference to the term 'alternative call sign'?
Anyone know?
Cheers
James
There's a pretty good website http://www.lhr-lgw.co.uk/ for this but recently the way they display the info has changed. In the listings it seems to be a mixture of the familiar flight numbers and sometimes a slighly different number is used.
For example, this flight is EZY8792 and that's fine:
23:54 Arr EZY8792 G-EZFS A319-111 [4129] Easyjet
However this flight, which is EZY8791 shows like this:
15:17 Dep EZY791Y G-EZFS A319-111 [4129] Easyjet
Often the numbers are a jumbled round concoction of the normal flight numbers, eg. EZY87ER, EZY516M
Just wondered if anyone knows what exactly these call signs are? I've plugged a few into Google and get instant hits to http://www.libhomeradar.org/ but still can't quite work out what these numbers are all about. I've seen reference to the term 'alternative call sign'?
Anyone know?
Cheers
James