Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
Didn't this change when the flight numbers went over to the new BA logic in about 1978, round about when the "BeaLine" callsign was dropped. For many years, only Lufthansa and Canada 3000 operated on the North Atlantic with even numbers west and odd numbers East. So "evens go East" was almost completely flipped by the late 80s early 90s.
Not totally correct. I started listening to ATC in 1962 & Swissair & Alitalia were using even numbers forAtlantic westbounds then; & continued to do so throughout my years as an ATCO - 1971 to 2008.