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The meaning of aircraft flight naming-USA Aircraft Group Corporation

Date: 2025/4/11

After the separation of the civil aviation government and enterprises of China, nine major domestic aviation backbone enterprises were established, which are:
"C A" represents China International Airlines, headquartered in Beijing:
"WH" represents Northwest China Airlines, headquartered in Xi'an:
"CZ" represents China Southern Airlines and is headquartered in Guangzhou:
"SZ" represents Southwest Airlines of China, headquartered in Chengdu:
"MN" represents China Eastern Airlines and is headquartered in Shanghai:
"CJ" represents China Northern Airlines, headquartered in Shenyang:
"GP" represents General Airlines of China and is headquartered in Taiyuan:
"MF" represents Xiamen Airlines Co., Ltd., headquartered in Xiamen;
"XO" represents Xinjiang Airlines and is headquartered in Urumqi.
In addition, local airlines have also been established, such as "SH" representing Shanghai Airlines, "SC" representing Sichuan Airlines, "Gw〞 representing Great Wall Airlines and "ZH" representing Shenzhen Airlines, etc.
If you have such a ticket in your hand, with the words "CA1301, Y, C, F, ask when leaving the port, OKB", what do you mean? CA" indicates that you are on a flight of China International Airlines. 1301 is the flight number of this flight, that is, the flight from Beijing to Guangzhou. "1" indicates the departure station of the plane to Beijing, "3" indicates the destination is Guangzhou, and "0 1〞 indicates the departure of the plane, which is a single number, and the return is a double number. Well, this flight from Guangzhou back to Beijing has become a "1302" flight. "Y" indicates the seat class, which is called the ordinary cabin. In addition, there is also "F
Cabin (class cabin), its price is about 30% more expensive than ordinary cabin: "C" cabin (public service cabin), its price is 15% more expensive than ordinary cabin. The departure time should be the time when the plane closes the cabin. "Zone 0" indicates the seating situation, domestic passenger tickets should be said to be "O District" tickets, "B" indicates the category of passenger tickets, domestic passengers are "B" U.S. ticket price, which is the discount price that people often call, and foreign passengers and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan passengers have "A" category ticket prices, that is, the announcement price.
The arrangement of China's domestic flight numbers is composed of the airline's two-character code plus four digits, and the airline code is published by the General Administration of Civil Aviation. The first of the last four digits represents the base location of the airline, the second represents the terminal location outside the flight base, of which 1 represents North China, 2 is Northwest China, 3 is South China, 4 is Southwest, 5 is East China, 6 is Northeast China, 8 is Xiamen, 9 is Xinjiang, the third and fourth digits represent the sequence number of the flight, The singular number indicates the flight departing from the base to the outside. The double number indicates the return flight to the base. Take CA1585 as an example, CA is the code of China International Airlines. The first number 1 indicates the location of North China, and the base of China Airlines is in Beijing: the second number 5 indicates East China, Yantai belongs to East China: the last two 85 are the flight number, and the last number 5 is the order number, indicating that the flight is the departure flight. CA1586 is a return flight for China Airlines to Yantai all over Beijing. The arrangement of international flight numbers is composed of airline codes plus three digits. The first number indicates the flight hole company, and the last two digits are the flight sequence number. The same as the domestic flight number is the single number for departure and the double number for the return number. For example, MU508, from Tokyo to Beijing, is a return flight operated by China Eastern Airlines.