Originally Posted by
markis10
Your getting a couple of things confused there. Until the late 1990s domestic flights used registration, international company flight number. During the strike, foreign airlines flying domestic used company callsign, I remember asking a Cactus Mel-CBR as he approached 20 dme south of Canberra if he was approaching top of descent
At that distance and still in the cruise would have him in the "cactus" so to speak.
