Originally Posted by
WHBM
It used to be that there were traditions for flight numbers, eg evens for east/southbound and odds for west/northbound, but this obviously breaks down here.
BA still upholds a similar tradition - flight numbers departing LHR are odd for longhaul flights and even for shorthaul, with the demarcation at 300. Inbound flights use the opposite convention.
One might almost think they were still two separate airlines.
