A300 BOS-JFK today?

[AgMedallion]

The flight number I noted from flightaware.com was "110R". No mention on aa.com. Was it a training flight or some kind of charter? Although who in their right mind would charter an A300 from BOS-JFK? Btw the "real" AA flt 110 is ORD-FCO.

 

[twaokc]

"Although who in their right mind would charter an A300 from BOS-JFK?"

The person that chartered this one may not have a mind.

 

[eolesen]

The flight number I noted from flightaware.com was "110R". No mention on aa.com. Was it a training flight or some kind of charter? Although who in their right mind would charter an A300 from BOS-JFK? Btw the "real" AA flt 110 is ORD-FCO.

Training or charter would be in the 9000 range.

IIRC, the R suffix used to be for stub origination, where the same flight number could otherwise be active in the same airspace outbound and inbound.

 

[JAFA]

it appears 2110 diverted to BOS and for some reason used 110R for the hop back to JFK

 

[eolesen]

Probably for the same reason I said above -- conflicting flight number.

The stub origination example I gave would have the same company flight number as the stub outbound and delayed inbound operation to the same airport.

It also applies at the destination airport when someone like Jetbloo or Duhlta has a flight 2110 in or out of JFK around the the same timeframe.

I forget exactly what the radio call suffix scheme was, but it was something like flights with one to three digits get a P suffix, flights in the 1000 range drop the 1 and add a Q, and flights in the 2000 range drop the 2 and add the R... or something like that.... it's been years since I worked a radio in ops.

 

[Skymess]

it appears 2110 diverted to BOS and for some reason used 110R for the hop back to JFK

The diversion makes sense. We almost had to divert on the way into JFK yesterday because of the weather.

 

[kirkpatrick]

it appears 2110 diverted to BOS and for some reason used 110R for the hop back to JFK

26A/BOS/JFK/21 shows flt 2110 BOS-JFK. Note departure at 1321 and arrival at 1631. They must have taken I-95.

MK