[ACARS] Alphanumeric Callsigns

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:16:07 +0100

Sam 2672 wrote:
> Hello
> What could be the reason for it?
> Maybe there has been some failure in filing or distributing the flight 
> plans?
> 
> -Sam
> 
> 
>> From: Kevin Cleaver <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [ACARS] Alphanumeric Callsigns
>> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:51:11 +0100
>>
>> Smokey Behr wrote:
>>
>>> Could they be using tail numbers instead of flight numbers? That's
>>> what it sounds like.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:41:54 +0200, "Andreas Schmidt"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> In the last 15 minutes around 7 lh-aircraft landed at DUS using 
>>>> strange flight-numbers.
>>>>
>>>> Instead of "Lufthansa" and flight number they used (on the radio):
>>>>
>>>> Lufthansa 14 Zulu
>>>> Lufthansa 70 Zulu
>>>> Lufthansa 4 Tango
>>>> Lufthsnsa 7 Zulu Delta
>>>> Lufthansa 9 X-Ray Hotel
>>>> and so on.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> correction to my previous DLH5950 = DLH5MF
>>
>>
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The reason is to avoid having similar sounding callsigns on the 
frequency. A number of airlines have been doing this for a while. BA use 
them as do easyjet, British Midland