AAJAXFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 732 times:
1.) Why does it matter? You'll find out when you get on board.
2.) You either have to have access to internal computer systems or know somebody who has said access. Then again, as airline schedules and fleet movements are very fluid, there is nothing for certain until you are on the aircraft and it takes off, leading back to the above.
Cmckeithen From United States, joined Jul 2003, 617 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 725 times:
Its not easy. Since 9/11 the FAA took that info off thier website which you could once view it. I spent hours yesterday trying to find out the info and was uncessful.
Maybe one of the CO, AS, NW, or DL employees on this forum could help you out. But there is no site on-line that can show you this to my knowledge.
Cmckeithen From United States, joined Jul 2003, 617 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 703 times:
Thats cool. It's puzzling to me that you can't get that info on-line but you can get the flight number, time, date, miles, dep/arr city, and a/c type. What will knowning the reg number affect security. It just does not make sense.
Coolkenla From United States, joined Sep 2003, 30 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 665 times:
Knowledge of the Reg. # could technically allow someone to tamper with a specific plane beforehand. Although the chances of someone doing this are slim, I'm not surprised that they removed such information post-9/11 as an extra security precaution.
Caetravlr From United States, joined Oct 2000, 831 posts, RR: 2 Reply 7, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 665 times:
So, I guess in order to get the registration of an aircraft you flew last August, you would have to know someone with access the company computer system too, huh?
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AAJAXFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 657 times:
You can look up information through the Bureau of Transportation Statistics website at http://www.bts.gov for past flights, however it only lists major airlines and it takes sometimes 6-8 weeks for the information to post after date of travel.
GEG2RAP From United States, joined Sep 2003, 755 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 650 times:
Here are the flights I am on if any of the NW/AS/CO/DL (taken full advantage of the whole code share thing)
Leave AS 594 GEG-SEAon 3/12 NW 586 SEA-MSP on 3/13 NW 411 MSP-DFW on 3/13
Then on DL 6506 dfw-iah on Chaqu and on CO 3241 iah-aus on 3/13
then on dl 4829 on ASA 3/16
return NW 402 dfw-msp NW 611 geg-msp on 3/21
OPNLguy From United States, joined Jun 1999, 12724 posts, RR: 75 Reply 11, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 522 times:
Someone else said:
>>>You'll find out when you get on board.
And that is the ONLY 100% sure-fire way to know, since there are so many variables as to what exact aircraft will be assigned to any particular flight.
The other day, I released a flight about 2 hours before scheduled departure time with aircraft so-and-so, and by the time the flight actually departed, 5 different tail numbers had been assigned at one time or another. A really BIG variable is maintenance-related, both from a planned routing standpoint (where an aircraft has to end up for overnight MX work) and from a breakdown/repair scenario. In the latter one, an aircraft might be assigned on the basis of when it's estimated to be back in service, and should that estimate change (either earlier or later) more aircraft routing changes will need to be made.
After the fact, the BTS site is a good way to tell, but before the flight operates, any aircraft is subject to (literal) last-minute change.
Carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.
InnocuousFox From United States, joined Dec 2003, 2520 posts, RR: 26 Reply 12, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 478 times:
Airlines assign tail numbers to specific flights between 2 days and 2 weeks before the actual flight. How long depends on the proceedures of the individual airline.
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Timf From United States, joined Mar 2003, 241 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (4 years 10 months 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 383 times:
Although it may not help you in this case, the only airline I know of that tells you the exact plane you'll be flying on in advance is Frontier. If you check in online, the final page of the process says "You will be flying on [animal name]" along with a picture of the tail. You can then cross-reference the tail image with the photo database to determine the registration you'll be on.
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