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November 11, 2025<\/h4>\n

Today\u2019s topic is supposed to be the U.S. government shutdown. I\u2019m supposed to offer \u201chacks\u201d (a gruesomely overused term these days) that\u2019ll help you deal with the delays and long lines, and assure you that the skies remain safe.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t think of anything more boring, however, so instead I\u2019m going to talk about this vintage American Airlines luggage tag that I found in the attic at my father\u2019s house.<\/p>\n

The tag \u2014 what\u2019s left of it \u2014 was affixed to a suitcase that belonged to my mother in the 1960s, when she worked briefly as a flight attendant for American. An address on the suitcase is hers from before she was married.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pretty certain the tag is from 1964. This jibes with both the address and her dates of employment. There\u2019s also a \u201c64\u201d as part of the coding, visible in red.<\/p>\n

You also can see where the flight number, 12, has been inked in by hand.<\/p>\n

Flight 12 was, for decades, American\u2019s Los Angeles-Boston nonstop. The reciprocal, flight 11, left Boston for Los Angeles each morning.<\/p>\n

In the late 60s, flights 11 and 12 would\u2019ve been run with a Boeing 707. Later it was a DC-10, and a 767 after that. I remember flying to LAX on flight 11 in 1980, when I was a freshman in high school.<\/p>\n

The pairing no longer exists. These flight numbers were retired as of September 12th, 2001, the day after flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a science of sorts to flight numbers that you probably didn\u2019t know about:<\/p>\n

Ordinarily, flights going eastbound are assigned even numbers; those headed westbound get odd numbers. Another habit is giving lower, one- or two-digit numbers to more prestigious or long-distance routes. If there\u2019s a flight 1 in an airline\u2019s timetable, it\u2019s the stuff of London\u2013New York.<\/p>\n

Numbers might also be grouped geographically. At United, transpacific flights use three-digit numbers beginning with 8, which is considered a lucky number in some Asian cultures. Four-digit sequences starting with a 3 or higher are, most of the time, indications of a code-share flight.<\/p>\n

Technically, a flight number is a combination of numbers and letters, prefaced with the carrier\u2019s two-letter IATA code. Every airline has one of these codes. For Delta, American, and United, it\u2019s DL, AA, and UA, respectively. Lufthansa uses LH; Emirates uses EK. Often they\u2019re intuitive, other times they\u2019re mysterious. British Airways is BA, while jetBlue uses the alphanumeric B6.<\/p>\n

If you didn\u2019t know about this practice, you no doubt got familiar with it after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which from the start was referred to as \u201cMH370.\u201d<\/p>\n

All this inspired by some fragments of a sixty year-old luggage tag.<\/p>\n

Air travel forensics, you could call it. I\u2019m good at it.<\/p>\n

And I imagine you can find thousands of these sorts of curiosities \u2014 numbers and codes that tell a story \u2014 sitting in attics and basements all over the world.<\/p>\n

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