[dfboyd]

The post has annoying little errors that make it harder to read. The figure says BA286, and the text says "BA287 means British Airways flight 287". So does that mean you always add 1 to the flight number shown on the screen, to get the actual flight number? "388 equipment type: 389 refers to Airbus A380-800". Again, you add 1 to the number shown on the screen? Why does "389" mean "A380-800" and not "A380-900"? I realize it's possible to figure out that these are just typos and you don't really mean "take the number shown on the screen and add 1 to it to get the actual flight number", but why would you make your readers deal with that kind of confusion?

[dvdhsu]

I'm sorry. I made the change quickly at around 11pm my time (when I was a bit tired) because somebody in another thread here [1] noticed that a 767 wouldn't make it from SFO to LHR. I made two typos in this edit (typo-ing "286" to "287" and "388" to "399"), and have just corrected both. If there are any more issues you notice, please let me know (I'm david AT retool, or commenting publicly here works), and I'd be happy to fix them when I wake up again (in around 8 hours' time).

(The former error is indeed because I confused the outbound / inbound flights. I've taken BA286 quite a few times, but I forgot which direction was which. When I was initially fixing the article I thought it was "BA286" but then looked it up and found it was "287". I then fixed the error in the screenshot but forgot to fix the error in the text itself. Apologies the edit introduced annoying little errors — this is entirely on me trying to do fix something quickly.)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23231453

[bogomipz]

I found this perplexing:

>"LHR/GMT¥8: the arrival airport, LHR, which is in the GMT time zone, which is 8 hours ahead of the origin airport"

Why exactly is the Yen sign used at the destination? Why would this not warrant an explanation?

[jka]

This doesn't completely explain the flight number labelling issue in the article, but may be related:

By convention, large airlines typically number their flights so that even-and-odd numbered pairs operate between the same two cities.

For example, QF49 flies MEL-SFO and QF50 flies SFO-MEL.