For years, ANSETT ferried aircraft on a QANTAS flight number, as did some smaller Australian operators, made life easy for everybody, nice and familiar, and as ARINC didn’t charge shareholder per flight, it just showed up as QF special, no comms. charges
Care to share some of the details with us?
Probably 10 years ago now, but a QF10Y, (Yankee as in yesterday, the usual QF callsign for a delayed service) was forced to land in Karachi, due the Pakistani’s not believing it really was yesterday’s, running 26 hours late, 2 h behind that day’s aircraft.
Is this true? I recall having read somwehere that Qantas delayed flights operating a day late had a suffix of "D" to differnentiate the flight scheduled for that day.