What Is A Flight? What Is The Flight Number?

　　 flight It means that the aircraft takes off regularly from the departure station to the terminal or stops directly to the terminal without stopping by stops. Flights on international routes are called international flights, and flights on domestic routes are called domestic flights.

　　 Flight number To facilitate transportation and users, each flight is numbered. This number is the flight number.

Flight number Regulations The number of international flights is made up of two character code and three Arabia figures of the airline that performs the flight task. The last number is odd number, which means flight to the bound. The last number is even number, indicating the return flight.

The flight numbers of China's domestic flights consist of the airline's two character code and four Arabia figures. The first number represents the airline or its authority that performs the mission. The second digit indicates the Management Bureau of the terminal. The third, fourth digit indicates the flight number, that is, the specific number of the flight. If the fourth digit is odd, it will go to the flight. If it is even, it is a return flight.

　 Appendix: Codes of airlines and their respective bureaus

1, China International Airlines, North China authority; 2, Northwest Airlines, Northwest Bureau; 3, Southern Airlines, Shenzhen airlines, Guangzhou authority; 4, Southwest Airlines, Sichuan airlines, Yunnan airlines, southwest authority; 5, Eastern Airlines, Shanghai airlines, Southern China authority; 6, Northern Airlines, Shenyang administration; 7, General Aviation Corporation (after being acquired by Eastern Airlines); 8, Xiamen Airline Co; 9, Xinjiang airlines.

Note: the flight numbers of domestic airlines and local airlines are also composed of two character codes of airlines and three Arabia numbers.