Number 1

[erj-145mech]

COA1 B764 George Bush Intctl Houston (KIAH) Honolulu Int'l (PHNL) Sun 09:57 CST Sun 13:49 HST

 

[FlyWolf]

Midex1: OMA-MKE-LGA

 

[Indy refugee]

JetBlue 1 is BUF-JFK-FLL. It was also our first official flight.

 

[CA1900]

I created a "CommutAir 1" a while back. For a while, CommutAir's route planner (Hi, Joel) just loved to pack similar-sounding callsigns into the same airport at the same time. It was creating a real safety hazard.

Their solution? Start slapping letters on the end of all the flight numbers, and drop the leading digit. So flight 8501 became 801I; 8585 became 585G, and so on. The controllers were reading the "G" as a "6," and calling us 5856. We didn't respond, because we didn't recognize the callsign. It was an unmitigated disaster, and it dragged on for months.

Well, Boston Center finally had enough. A bunch of airplanes took off from Albany, and after about two minutes, we heard this: "OK, listen up. I'm too tired for this today. 585A, you're 8585. 637C, you're 8637..." And so on. It was beautiful.

But back to the topic at hand, I got a call from dispatch one day that we would have an identical callsign as a late inbound, and asked us to change the callsign with clearance delivery so it would be unique. So I changed it to "CommutAir 1." We were the flagship. Flying this embarassing-looking airplane.

 

[RJAA]

Delta 1 JFK-LGW
Northwest 1 LAX-NRT
Japan Air 1 SFO-NRT
All Nippon (ANA) 1 IAD-NRT

 

[Whataburger]

Colts won!!!!