Originally Posted by
JMT21
Whats the story behind Skywest adding letters to the end of some of their callsigns? IE: 'Skywest Twenty-Four Echo' Surely they haven't run out of numbers?
Typically this is done if the aircraft is being repositioned on the ground. Without a valid flight number, the callsign we use is the gate number we're repositioning to. In SFO: "Ground Skywest 76 Alpha reposition to gate 76A." In flight though, I'm not sure.