Excel Airways flight codes
 

Can anyone out there enlighten me as to why Excel Airways uses the flight code JN on flights to Malta, whereas XLA is used on flights to all other destinations???

:confused:

Might be bacause Malta cannot handle the 3 letter codes on the arrival/departure boards ?? :confused:

Scheduled flights?
 

Arent the JN codes used to indicate Excel scheduled flights?

Indeed......

Isn't Excel a LGW based charter airline? Didn't know it had any scheduled services, unless it's doing subs for someone. BTW, JN is the airline code for Rich International, in the USA. There is also an Air Excel in Holland, I think, but I don't know its airline code.

Poor Rich Intl, long gone.

The JN codes are for scheduled flights which Execl operate themselves, not on behalf of others. It's like Air 2000 operate their scheduled flights to Cyprus using their DP code, and the Monarch scheduled services which use code ZB. The three-letter XLA code is used for the charter flights.

I believe Excel's only scheduled flights are to Malta from LGW,BHX and MAN.

Cheers guys.

Very helpful stuff. That was my initial suspicion, however, just seems kinda strange that they choose to operate a schedule service to a destination such as Malta rather than the usual more popular ones like Malaga, Palma, Tenerife etc....

Number Cruncher: I'd guess that the Malta flights are scheduled because of regulatory, rather than commercial, reasons.

Malta is non-EEA so there is probably a limit of 15% on seat-only sales for charter flights. Whereas, if a charter airline designates its flights scheduled, they can obviously carry as many seat-only passengers as they like.

There isn’t actually that much point in making flights to AGP, PMI or TFS into scheduled because they’re inside the EEA so scheduled/charter really doesn’t make much difference. (Except that being scheduled can get flights in the OAG and on the CRSs - see the thread on Air 2000’s scheduled flights at thread )