That flight sadly has sadly become a victim of the pandemic, and BA001 is once again dormant.
BA1 was attached to the airline’s daily all-business class service from London City (LCY) to New York JFK, operated by an A318 with a stop in Shannon (SNN) on the way westward. After Concorde was retired the flight number was dormant for some time, until it was assigned to another unique flight. A fitting designation if ever there was one. British Airways – BA001 British Airways BA001 was world famous when it was operated by the Concorde.īA001 was famously reserved for one of two daily Concorde services from London Heathrow (LHR) to New York JFK. Most of the time after a crash airlines will retire the flight number involved, but in the case of AA1 they did not. Of note: in 1962, a Boeing 707 carrying flight number AA1 crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK, killing everyone onboard. It is still active, although AA last operated this flight in early September – a (likely temporary) victim of cuts due to the drop in demand after summer. American Airlines – AA001ĪA1 has been a New York (JFK) to Los Angeles (LAX) flight for decades. So today I’d like to look at just one question: which routes actually carry the flight number 1, and why? Here are some of the highlights. In many cases there is a method to the madness of flight numbering, but that method could fill several posts.
Take recent startup Starlux Airlines of Taiwan for example – when the carrier launched earlier this year its first flight numbers were JX201, 203 and 205 from Taipei to Macau (currently only JX205 is operating while Starlux ramps up operations.) The airline’s flights from Taipei to Da Nang, Vietnam carried the flight numbers JX701 and JX1701. The first route gets flight 1, the return leg gets flight 2, and so on. It might seem like it would be more orderly and obvious if airlines just numbered flights in the order they launched them. Flight numbers don’t often follow a readily apparent logic, but it’s usually different with flight 1, or as it’s often written alongside an airline code, 001. In commercial aviation there’s no flight number quite as prestigious as flight 1.
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