I had experienced Flight Number One before, which is on Malaysia Airlines flight from LHR to KUL, flight number MH1. Back in 2016 when they still use A380 on that route, such memorable experience!
No mention of QF1? The Qantas Sydney-London service has operated since the 1930s, is one of the longest airline routes (albeit with a stop-over in Singapore) at 17,000 klm and takes around 24 hours to fly end-to-end. If you really want to squeeze all the benefit out of a business or first class ticket, this is the route to fly :)
My very last ultra long-haul flight right on the day COVID broke out globally. Excellent business class service all the way. Can't wait to board the A380 once more!
You forgot to mention the other most famous Flight 1. That was Pan Am's around the world flight 1, which was later picked up by United as their Flight 1. United would eventually scale it back and it was no longer an around the world service. I would need to dig up old information to see what the itineraries were but those are the flight 1s I remember the most.
PAA 001 operated eastbound from JFK and around-the-world, usually operating its first leg between JFK to LHR (and sometimes nonstop to FRA, otherwise 1-stop over LHR). Though don't forget PAA 002 which also operated round-the-world, also from JFK on a westbound routing with its last leg often being from LHR (and ocassionally FRA) to JFK
Pan American 001 was a Westbound only from SFO to JFK. PA 002 was the Eastbound around the world flight. I was lucky to fly PA 001 from FRA to LHR to JFK in the very late 70s. There were non-stops from FRA to JFK, but I wanted to be on this iconic Around the World service, even if only for two legs ...
@@dhatlanta see my response above re why PA flights 1 and 2 were not round the world services. It is included in my response why technically no ailines operate a flight 1.
I've been on QF1 Sydney to London. My A380 flight left exactly on time, but when I got back to Sydney I saw that the QF1 for that day had been delayed for 24 hours! So I got lucky.
Way back in the early 1990's, I have flown on the United Airlines' UA1 from LAX to Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport on their then new 747-400. The landing over Kowloon City was spectacular to say the least. I still remember literally seeing people hanging their laundry on their roof right before landing.
SQ1 SFO-HKG-SIN. Its significance being SQ first direct flight from the US to Singapore, after more than nine years of trying to get a flight from the USA to Singapore since early 1970s made it worthy of such important flight number. SQ 1 started in April 1979 flying SFO-HNL-GUM-HKG-SIN with McDonnell Douglas DC 10.
One of the longest flights using the number one would have been NZ1 from Auckland to London via LA with Air New Zealand. We've flown this a number of times with the worst part being all the queues and hoop to jump through at LA during the two hour stop-over.
I have flown LOT Polish Airlines LO001 (LO1) from Warsaw Poland (WAW) to Chicago IL USA (ORD), a few times. My first flights were on the Boeing 767, now it is the Boeing 787.
4:26 I have been on Flight 1 of only 2 airlines: LH1 Hamburg to Frankfurt on Boeing 737-300 on 9 March 2004 MH1 London Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur on A380 and Boeing 747-400 on 7 occasions between 2004 to 2015
I think the most famous was PA 1 and PA 2 Pan Am use to have 2 flights that left from JFK that would circle the world every day. One of the flights went East and the other went West. Of course this was nearly 40 years ago. Pan Am also had a flight about 50 years ago from LHR to SYD making about 6 stops on the way. It did not even operate to the US.
Pan Am flight was the first around the world flight starting in 1947. The westbound flight number was 001 and the eastbound flight number was 002. All originating in San Francisco, California,USA.
Sorry but wrong. The flights were coast to coast flights via the northern hemisphere. PA0001 went SFO to IDL and PA0002 went from IDL to SFO. Round the world was a PA marketing term. To be a round the world flight would entail criss crossing the equator with a landing in the other hemisphere plus travel the circumference of the earth plus x number of kms (being the accumulated number of kms to be safely above the ground/water) and ideally cross an antipodean point of your flight. And importantly, it's contraire to that old show tune (It's not where you start it's where you finish) you must finish where you started. Sorry for being a pedant.
Because SQ numbers its flights by region rather than by importance I think: SQ001-099 -> SIN-N America (inc. the world's longest non-stop flight SIN-EWR SQ021 & 022) SQ100-199 & 900-999 -> SIN-SE Asia SQ200-299 -> SIN-Australasia SQ300-399 -> SIN-Europe (hence SIN-LHR flight numbers include SQ307/308 & 319/320) SQ400-499 -> SIN-South Asia & Middle East (?) SQ600-699 -> SIN-East Asia excluding greater China (e.g. SIN-HND, a more recent & minor route compared to, say, SIN-NRT, is SQ635/636 IIRC) SQ800-899 -> SIN-greater China (e.g. SIN-HKG, which is a fairly significant & busy route, is flown by SQ863/864 & 889/890 etc.) SQ1000 & above -> codeshares with regional subsidiary SilkAir
In 1996 I flew on Qantas airways flight QF001 from BKK-LHR, this route was serviced by their 747-400 named The City of Darwin. And was Registered as VH-OJH, this plane became imfomous later on as the one that over run the runway at Bangkok airport in 1999 and ended up in a golf course. Nowerdays flight QF001 flies from Singapore to London as it was changed from Bangkok Thailand. I've also flown on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ001 from HKG-SIA, back in 2008 when it was operated by the Boeing 777-200.
I flew on QF1 from Dubai to London Heathrow back in 2017, when Qantas Airways was operating the route from Sydney to London via Dubai, instead of via Singapore. And I even got to fly in that small economy cabin on the upper deck of the Airbus A380.
Korean air operates KE001 icn-NRT-HNL pre Covid. I’m sure it will come back post Covid. That flight number used be for ICN-NRT-LAX. Yes you can book the Tokyo to Honolulu leg as a 5th freedom route
As far as I can remember, I've only been on one flight 1 route before, TLV-JFK on El Al 001. I've been on the flight many times before, and it is surprisingly ordinary every single time
You missed QF1 (SYD-LHR) which flew with Constellations, B707, B747 and A380 via various stopovers for refueling and crew changes (incl SIN, DXB, BKK, BAH, CCU, TIP, DRW, KHI & CAI) - I've flown QF1/2 many times.
Philippine Airlines' flight PR001 is reserved for the Philippine president when they charter PAL aircraft usually on long haul routes. Not sure if PR001 was used on domestic flights, but now that the air force owns a Gulfstream G280, we may never see another PR001 on a domestic flight again
I'm flying Dubai-Doha on Thursday. But not flight 1 on FlyDubai, actually will be Qsuite business class on Qatar Airways...must be their shortest leg offering Qsuite...strange times we live in!
Huh never knew flight no.1 was something so significant! I regularly (at least once a year sometimes twice) take Biman (Bangladeshi Flag carrier) BG001/BG1 from Dhaka, Bangladesh (DAC) to London (LHR). They use to use DC-10 back in early 2000 then after EU ban started to use the 777-3ER and now the new 787 (video @4:18).
TWA flight 1 in my case, December of 2000 on my return from a Hawaiian vacation. 767-300 with me in First Class thanks to FF miles. The St. Louis to Hawaii flight that got me there was Flight 2 I think, somebody correct me if I got those switched. I was on 3 British Airways Concordes and one Air France Concorde over the years and I'm sure a couple of those were Flight 1's.
(Lufthansa)LH 01 from Frankfurt to Hamburg, is the flight I was taking. But @polishavgeek is totaly right.... In terms of airport announcements LH2222 to Toulouse (from Munich) is a banger😂😂
@Shanghai that’s true, but it’s also interesting to know that for example the Indian VIP plane is used under an Air India call sign and has the two letter code of Air India
TOTAL THUMBS DOWN here! You left off the airline that started it all. Pan Am 001 and PA002, both around-the-world services first flown with B707s and then with the iconic 747s. I flew on both PA001 and PA002 on the JFK-LHR and LHR-JFK sectors.
I thought this was going to be about Finair flight 666 to "Hel"
yea same
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Hello fellow Sydney sider
Flight 666 Friday 13
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I had experienced Flight Number One before, which is on Malaysia Airlines flight from LHR to KUL, flight number MH1. Back in 2016 when they still use A380 on that route, such memorable experience!
miss those day when they use A380s
Dugong will be missed 🥲
And now MH is not even considered a top airline :-(
Me too!!!
Jeez, London is basically the center of the world when it comes to aviation.
Lufthansa's most popular service is not LH1...
It's LH2222 to Toulouse.
😂
KLM is 1001 Amsterdam to London Heathrow
No mention of QF1?
The Qantas Sydney-London service has operated since the 1930s, is one of the longest airline routes (albeit with a stop-over in Singapore) at 17,000 klm and takes around 24 hours to fly end-to-end. If you really want to squeeze all the benefit out of a business or first class ticket, this is the route to fly :)
the list is as of 2021,regularly scheduled. QANTAS is not operating internationally right now
And Air NZ1 from London to Auckland via Los Angeles was further when it was flying.
Hoping QF001 will recommence 18 Dec, as currently scheduled., albeit 787 not A380. But the restart date has been put back so many times…
Who'd have thought that one day we'd be talking about QANTAS being a domestic airline ? 🤪
These are truly strange times...
My very last ultra long-haul flight right on the day COVID broke out globally. Excellent business class service all the way. Can't wait to board the A380 once more!
The sadly defunct Finnair flight 666 to HEL was way more prestigious!
I dont think its defunct?
I've flown WestJet Flight 1 from Calgary to London-Gatwick back in August 2019. A memorable experience onboard their new Boeing 787-9s.
What about Panam flight 1
@@busofmauritius8306 🤣 Pan American were dead for almost fifteen years before I was born, so sadly no Pan Am for me (I'm sixteen).
You forgot to mention the other most famous Flight 1. That was Pan Am's around the world flight 1, which was later picked up by United as their Flight 1. United would eventually scale it back and it was no longer an around the world service. I would need to dig up old information to see what the itineraries were but those are the flight 1s I remember the most.
Qantas
PAA 001 operated eastbound from JFK and around-the-world, usually operating its first leg between JFK to LHR (and sometimes nonstop to FRA, otherwise 1-stop over LHR). Though don't forget PAA 002 which also operated round-the-world, also from JFK on a westbound routing with its last leg often being from LHR (and ocassionally FRA) to JFK
Pan American 001 was a Westbound only from SFO to JFK. PA 002 was the Eastbound around the world flight.
I was lucky to fly PA 001 from FRA to LHR to JFK in the very late 70s.
There were non-stops from FRA to JFK, but I wanted to be on this iconic Around the World service, even if only for two legs ...
@@dhatlanta see my response above re why PA flights 1 and 2 were not round the world services. It is included in my response why technically no ailines operate a flight 1.
United's UAL1 is currently one of two daily Dreamliner flights from SFO to SIN. Before that it was the number used for the daily ORD-HNL flight.
I’m going to fly on flight MH1 from London to Kuala Lumpur on Malaysia Airlines soon!
I've been on QF1 Sydney to London. My A380 flight left exactly on time, but when I got back to Sydney I saw that the QF1 for that day had been delayed for 24 hours! So I got lucky.
Way back in the early 1990's, I have flown on the United Airlines' UA1 from LAX to Hong Kong Kai Tak International Airport on their then new 747-400. The landing over Kowloon City was spectacular to say the least. I still remember literally seeing people hanging their laundry on their roof right before landing.
SQ1 SFO-HKG-SIN. Its significance being SQ first direct flight from the US to Singapore, after more than nine years of trying to get a flight from the USA to Singapore since early 1970s made it worthy of such important flight number. SQ 1 started in April 1979 flying SFO-HNL-GUM-HKG-SIN with McDonnell Douglas DC 10.
One of the longest flights using the number one would have been NZ1 from Auckland to London via LA with Air New Zealand. We've flown this a number of times with the worst part being all the queues and hoop to jump through at LA during the two hour stop-over.
I have flown LOT Polish Airlines LO001 (LO1) from Warsaw Poland (WAW) to Chicago IL USA (ORD), a few times. My first flights were on the Boeing 767, now it is the Boeing 787.
Flew on the same flight, WAW to ORD. Even in business that airline is awful. LOT Polish Airlines is not for me!! 😬
The Jacekville express! 🤣
Paul O. I know what you mean, and I flew them from Sin to Waw and back in economy. Very ordinary indeed..
Fun fact : normally flight numbers associated with large disasters are retired…except for AA1, they decided to keep it as the most important number
4:26 I have been on Flight 1 of only 2 airlines:
LH1 Hamburg to Frankfurt on Boeing 737-300 on 9 March 2004
MH1 London Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur on A380 and Boeing 747-400 on 7 occasions between 2004 to 2015
I've been on LH1 as well but like 10 years later on an A321 😂
I think the most famous was PA 1 and PA 2 Pan Am use to have 2 flights that left from JFK that would circle the world every day. One of the flights went East and the other went West. Of course this was nearly 40 years ago. Pan Am also had a flight about 50 years ago from LHR to SYD making about 6 stops on the way. It did not even operate to the US.
I have flown on EK1 DXB-LHR.
Nothing special on that flight.
Also flown NZ1 LHR-LAX
Same lol
I've also flown NZ1 x5 times
Pan Am flight was the first around the world flight starting in 1947. The westbound flight number was 001 and the eastbound flight number was 002. All originating in San Francisco, California,USA.
Sorry but wrong. The flights were coast to coast flights via the northern hemisphere. PA0001 went SFO to IDL and PA0002 went from IDL to SFO. Round the world was a PA marketing term. To be a round the world flight would entail criss crossing the equator with a landing in the other hemisphere plus travel the circumference of the earth plus x number of kms (being the accumulated number of kms to be safely above the ground/water) and ideally cross an antipodean point of your flight. And importantly, it's contraire to that old show tune (It's not where you start it's where you finish) you must finish where you started. Sorry for being a pedant.
I flew on the ultimate Flight 1
4th February 2002, Heathrow to JFK, BA1, Concorde G-BOAF, 3 hours 29 minutes.
I have flown BU001 when the prefix was Braathens S.A.F.E. of Norway before it became a part of SAS. BU001 was FBU-SVG from 1998-2005 OSL-SVG.
Got to fly VA1 between Sydney and LAX in 2019. Only flight #1 I've flown.
Same here, but mine was either 2016, 2017 or 2018
I was on TWA1, 747 service STL-HNL
Would love to have done BA001 back in the day.
In 1980, flew from Chicago O'Hare to Honolulu on United Airlines Flight 1.
I'm actually kind of surprised that Singapore Airlines' SQ001/SA002 flights isn't between Singapore and London, but Singapore-Hong Kong-San Francisco.
London is not priority for several airlines
Because it was the first trans-pacific flight with newly introduced B747-400.
@@ccaakmgv2688 But isn't London (at the time) Singapore Airlines' biggest market?
@@Sacto1654 I think trans-pacific direct service (without a stop in Japan or South Korea) was more meaningful and memorable event for SQ.
Because SQ numbers its flights by region rather than by importance I think:
SQ001-099 -> SIN-N America (inc. the world's longest non-stop flight SIN-EWR SQ021 & 022)
SQ100-199 & 900-999 -> SIN-SE Asia
SQ200-299 -> SIN-Australasia
SQ300-399 -> SIN-Europe (hence SIN-LHR flight numbers include SQ307/308 & 319/320)
SQ400-499 -> SIN-South Asia & Middle East (?)
SQ600-699 -> SIN-East Asia excluding greater China (e.g. SIN-HND, a more recent & minor route compared to, say, SIN-NRT, is SQ635/636 IIRC)
SQ800-899 -> SIN-greater China (e.g. SIN-HKG, which is a fairly significant & busy route, is flown by SQ863/864 & 889/890 etc.)
SQ1000 & above -> codeshares with regional subsidiary SilkAir
I've been on BA 001, LCY-SNN-JFK, October 31, 2018. Very enjoyable.
In 1996 I flew on Qantas airways flight QF001 from BKK-LHR, this route was serviced by their 747-400 named The City of Darwin.
And was Registered as VH-OJH, this plane became imfomous later on as the one that over run the runway at Bangkok airport in 1999 and ended up in a golf course.
Nowerdays flight QF001 flies from Singapore to London as it was changed from Bangkok Thailand.
I've also flown on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ001 from HKG-SIA, back in 2008 when it was operated by the Boeing 777-200.
I’ve seen AM1 and I know someone that is an Aeromexico 787 pilot that have flown it
Flown on TK 1 on an A330-300 and EK 202 on an A380.
Pan Am used to run 001 west bound round the world, and 002 east bound round the world.
I’ve flown B6 1 several times. It’s the first flight of the day on JetBlue from JFK to FLL.
Oh my. This is interesting
I flew UA1 from SFO to SIN
Air Jamaica JM001 and JM002 was from Kingston and Montgo Bay Jamaica to London Heathrow
Nice info
Nice image.
I flew on QF1 from Dubai to London Heathrow back in 2017, when Qantas Airways was operating the route from Sydney to London via Dubai, instead of via Singapore. And I even got to fly in that small economy cabin on the upper deck of the Airbus A380.
Korean air operates KE001 icn-NRT-HNL pre Covid. I’m sure it will come back post Covid. That flight number used be for ICN-NRT-LAX. Yes you can book the Tokyo to Honolulu leg as a 5th freedom route
Hiya Simple flying! Can you guys make a Video about what happen to KLM UK? Or do like what others subsidiary does KLM opened beside KLM ASIA
Finnair mentioned 💪🇫🇮
That Zayed guy really likes waving at people
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I have flown on EK1 a lot of times from DXB to LHR onboard the A380!
As far as I can remember, I've only been on one flight 1 route before, TLV-JFK on El Al 001. I've been on the flight many times before, and it is surprisingly ordinary every single time
I’ve flown QR1 in 2016 as my first A350 flight. also flown EK1
I have never been on a flight number one, but this would be an amazing bucket list to fly all of the major flight number ones in the world!
Sq01 SFO- SIN via HKG
You missed QF1 (SYD-LHR) which flew with Constellations, B707, B747 and A380 via various stopovers for refueling and crew changes (incl SIN, DXB, BKK, BAH, CCU, TIP, DRW, KHI & CAI) - I've flown QF1/2 many times.
Philippine Airlines' flight PR001 is reserved for the Philippine president when they charter PAL aircraft usually on long haul routes.
Not sure if PR001 was used on domestic flights, but now that the air force owns a Gulfstream G280, we may never see another PR001 on a domestic flight again
TRANS WORLD AIRLINES FLIGHT 1 …WAS OPERATING PROUDLY NON STOP STL /HNL WITH B747 DAILY SERVICE
I can’t understand how you missed TK1, Istanbul-JFK flight. This video seems more like an Emirates commercial lol
If this video included every flight that people commenting say was “forgotten” the video you be an hour long
Well, they are not missing a flight between Scottish islands. So we can expect them to include a flight that’s been going on for 30+ years.
Flew LH1 Hamburg to Frankfurt a few times.
Cool!
I flew on Aeromexico's am1 from MEX to MAD😍😁
I had the opportunity to fly on EL AL 1 Boeing 747 route TLV-JFK in business on the upper deck
I’ve been on a Flight Number 1. That was VA1 from Sydney to LAX
The best flight 1 was the PA001 , Pan Americans round the world flight in the 80’s.
I flew Singapore 1 SFO-HKG on a 777-300ER.
Nothing will ever be as prestigious as Speedbird One on the Concorde LHR-JFK
Years ago I flew on United flight 1 fm Chicago to Honolulu. It was non-stop.
I flew once Qantas flight 1 from sydney to bangkok
The only flight 1 that I have been on was a flight from Milwaukee to LGA back in the 1990s on Midwest Express.
I have flown on VA1 from SYD to LAX. The flight crew even referred to the route as the “Flagship Route”.
Rip VA1 2009-2020
The Philippine Airlines uses flight 1 to transport the President going international, while the flight 2 is for Vice President
Closest I had was MH002 from KUL to LHR
Once I managed Qantas QF1 which goes from Sydney to London. I seem to recall it going via Singapore, so it would have been a while ago!
it still operates via Singapore
Virgin Australia Flight 1, Sydney-LAX. Not sure if they're still in business.
I'm flying Dubai-Doha on Thursday. But not flight 1 on FlyDubai, actually will be Qsuite business class on Qatar Airways...must be their shortest leg offering Qsuite...strange times we live in!
UPS1 generally flown originating at HKG and finishing in CGN.
Huh never knew flight no.1 was something so significant!
I regularly (at least once a year sometimes twice) take Biman (Bangladeshi Flag carrier) BG001/BG1 from Dhaka, Bangladesh (DAC) to London (LHR).
They use to use DC-10 back in early 2000 then after EU ban started to use the 777-3ER and now the new 787 (video @4:18).
I've taken AY1 😁
Ive only done one 1 flight, QF1 to Singapore (it goes to London but stops in SIN)
The funniest flight I ever took was flight 5050 because it was almost empty because according to the flight crew people are superstitious lol
United’s old around the world service. UAL2 circumnavigated in the opposite direction.
Garuda Indonesia technically can’t have a flight 1, because their callsign is “INDONESIA”, and “INDONESIA 1” is reserved for the presidential flight
I've been on AS 1 DCA-SEA many times, though i would more typically fly AS 3 in the afternoon.
QF1 - Sydney to London via Singapore
Does TB1111 also count? Jetairfly daily flight between Brussels and Alicante
I flew on BG001 from Dhaka - Heathrow in 2019
I may have, but quite honestly i can't remember or forget all my flight numbers.
AirAsia X uses XAX1 from KUL to HNL via KIX
I was on that Safarilink flight from WIL to the mara!
TWA flight 1 in my case, December of 2000 on my return from a Hawaiian vacation. 767-300 with me in First Class thanks to FF miles. The St. Louis to Hawaii flight that got me there was Flight 2 I think, somebody correct me if I got those switched. I was on 3 British Airways Concordes and one Air France Concorde over the years and I'm sure a couple of those were Flight 1's.
Never 1, but I've flown on Finnair 6 from New York to Helsinki
*M O I S T*
I’ve been on AS1 from DCA-SEA
I miss seeing NZ1 in the list. I really wanted to take that flight once.
FINNAIR aircrafts appeared in the video. But I did not notice any reference to flight AY 666 to HEL from CPH!
QFA1 Sydney to London via Singapore
Helsinki - Los Angeles
I've been on UA1. IAH-HNL. UA2 HNL-GUM
MH1 is another one 😄
I flew on spirit Flight 1 Fort Lauderdale To O'Hare
Was it in the big seat as well?
(Lufthansa)LH 01 from Frankfurt to Hamburg, is the flight I was taking. But @polishavgeek is totaly right.... In terms of airport announcements LH2222 to Toulouse (from Munich) is a banger😂😂
Does BA007 (London to Tokyo) have a James Bond theme?
well where is SQ 1 that is SIN-HKG-SFO
surprise not in the listed for HKG-SFO leg at least
I have flown NZ1 LHR-AKL several times. It no longer operates this service.
The pronunciation of Lerwick was... interesting.
Air India's AI1 (AIC1) is the call sign of any aircraft with the President of India or Vice President of India & the Prime Minister of India on board.
@Shanghai that’s true, but it’s also interesting to know that for example the Indian VIP plane is used under an Air India call sign and has the two letter code of Air India
VA1 Sydney-Los Angeles
(on a Dreamliner)
TOTAL THUMBS DOWN here! You left off the airline that started it all. Pan Am 001 and PA002, both around-the-world services first flown with B707s and then with the iconic 747s. I flew on both PA001 and PA002 on the JFK-LHR and LHR-JFK sectors.
AF001 CDG-JFK 16 MAR 2003 and CO1 HNL-GUM around 2001.