Flight number

ID flightnumber

DatatypeNot PIIidentifier

In the aviation industry, a flight number or flight designator is a code for an airline service consisting of two-character airline designator and a 1 to 4 digit number.

Categories: Transportation
Countries: Global (not tied to a country)
Languages: Common to most languages
Schema.org: flightNumber
Wikidata: P3090
Quality: 70/100 · missing: anchored regexp, negative example, translation, detector coverage
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Regular expression

([A-Z]{2,3}|[A-Z][0-9]|[0-9][A-Z])\d{1,4}[A-Z]?|\d{1,4}

Python re syntax. Not anchored: it can match inside longer text.

Examples

Value	Description
EK521	Emirates Flight 521
4U9525	Germanwings Flight 9525

Sources

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_number
wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3090

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