What is the format of airline number?

In the aviation industry, a flight number or flight designator is a code for an airline service consisting of two-character airline designator and a 1 to 4 digit number. For example, BA 222 is a British Airways service from Nashville, Tennessee to London-Heathrow.



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Flight code and number There's generally a simple formula for this one: two uppercase letters, followed by a four-digit number. The letters are the airline code, or the numbers universally recognized to represent the name of the airline in shorthand. Some are obvious—AA is American Airlines, for example.

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This special jargon, called the Aviation Alphabet, uses the same 26 letters many of us learned in kindergarten. Each letter has a corresponding word used to identify aircraft, often called the tail number, and taxiways, which are just like the roads we drive on.

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Your ticket number is a 13-digit number that uniquely identifies the airline ticket that was issued to you. The quickest and easiest way to locate your ticket number is through your boarding pass or your eTicket receipt.

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3 digit airline ticketing codes are the numbers of an airline which the ticket was issued on its stock. This is usually the same airline as the airline which is carrying out the actual flight. For example: Continental Airlines codes: 2-letter code is CO, 3-letter is COA, and the IATA code is 005.

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Where can I find information about my ticket number? The ticket number is a 13-digit number that you will find on your passenger receipt as well as on your boarding pass.

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Your flight number can also be found on your e-ticket or boarding pass. It comprises of 2 parts: The airline's 2-letter ISO code, which is DL for Delta Airlines, followed by 4 digits; for example, DL1234.

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Every airline uses a specific system to scribe letters and numbers to every flight. The letter combinations are always alphanumeric.

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The flight number listed on your boarding pass may seem random, but airlines have developed clever systems to numerically sort the hundreds or thousands of flights they operate each day. A flight number is a specific code that an airline assigns to a particular flight in its network.

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It's not uncommon for two distinct flights to have the same number. For example, DL10 consists of a narrow-bodied jet flying from Denver to Minneapolis–St Paul and then, two to three hours later, a wide-bodied jet flying from MSP to London Heathrow1; AA55 splits Manchester–Chicago–Orlando.

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