The Asian fondness for the number 8 is why there is an A 380 but not 360 or 370 -yet.
On the telecoms front when the International Telecoms Union dished out country codes for the world Asia was allocated 8X or 8XX so they all got an 8 included in their country code. There is no 88 country code but some smaller countries get two eights like Taiwan 886 , whether that means Taiwan is luckier than PRG who knows.
A lot of politics involved with this exercise back in the 1960s with USA claiming 1 -(with some justification ) but that meant USSR also had to have a single digit code-7 (no justification). In Europe, France and Britain got the double number codes or 33 and 44 which for some reason was deemed better than 31 or 41.
As they say whats in a name -or number