American Airlines (AA) #1549 FlightAware

Ahhh... 1549 at American, to New York none the less. The outrage.

I don't see what the big deal is. It is just a flight number, nothing more. Heck, United still uses the flight number from the PDX DC8 crash (amongst others). Now that is much more weird than UA103 versus Pan Am 103, it is just a coincidence about the date.

Not exactly. IIRC, they accidentally used them as a Star Alliance codeshare numbers or something back when the COA callsign was still being used.