I have heard that there is an airline carrier with a lot of 8's in their flightnumbers as the Chinese for '8' (ba) sounds similar to 'to get rich' (fa cai). I would like to know which airline carrier is meant.
Is this just a story or does one airline company really get to use lots of eights in their flightnumbers?
Thanks
2006-07-22 00:23:55 · 4 answers · asked by Evelineveline 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
"While sevens and 11s are considered lucky in Western culture, the Chinese consider eight to be lucky because their pronunciation sounds like the word "to acquire wealth." Continental Airlines offers flight 88 from Beijing to Newark and that route was launched with a "lucky" $888 round trip air fare sale..."
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/grossman/2005-10-31-grossman_x.htm
Related information:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3163951.stm
2006-07-22 00:34:51 · answer #1 · answered by Rubenator 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
May be it is true that 8 in Chinese means to get rich. But is there any airlines having many eights in their flight numbers. NOrmally flight numbers are of 3 digit or 4 digits. The most 8 one can see is in 8888 and definetly many airlines world over will have it as a rule.
2006-07-22 00:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by JP 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evelin congratulations you've won to-days star prize, you've rendered me speechless, as absolutely gob smacked
2006-07-22 00:31:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe Kuwait does
(Q8 gettit ???)
2006-07-22 00:27:21 · answer #4 · answered by Ivanhoe Fats 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋