Hawaiian Airlines: The third time was not a charm for the unlucky flight 33

The plane, loaded with more than 200 people, attempted three times to connect Los Angeles to Hawaii. But every attempt went wrong.

A number of Hawaiian Airlines flights seemed to have been cursed after being extraordinarily forced to return to the door for various reasons before finally being canceled.

Flight 33 took off from Los Angeles International Airport to Maui on Saturday, but landed at LAX shortly thereafter.

It took off a second time, but the same thing happened.

A third push attempt was also aborted, the jet coming back to the door.

And after three unsuccessful attempts to fly to Maui, Flight 33 was canceled.

Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Alex Da Silva said the three incidents were caused by three different reasons.

He said that each return to LAX was "due to separate and unrelated errors with different systems", but did not specify.

The more than 200 passengers were accommodated and placed on other flights to Maui.

WHAT DOES COMPANY NUMBERS MEAN?

We all know that the first two letters of a flight number designate the airline.

But is there any significance for the actual numbers that follow?

As a general rule, the lower the flight number, the more prestigious the route is, like the Qantas service between Sydney and London, QF1.

It is also important to know if your flight has an even or odd number. There are exceptions, but flights to the east or north are often assigned even numbers and those heading west or south are assigned odd numbers.

Qantas uses odd numbers for outgoing international flights (such as QF1 to London) and even numbers for incoming international flights (such as Denpasar QF44 in Sydney).

On Qantas flights, numbers between 1 and 399 are international flights, including codeshare, while flight numbers above 400 are domestic flights.

As a general rule, in most airlines, four-digit flight numbers beginning with 3 or more indicate code-share flights operated by partners.

For example, British Airways flight BA7420 is a code share flight between Auckland and Sydney operated by Qantas.

AIRLINE NUMBERS LOVE – AND DO NOT LIKE

Airlines have enough freedom to assign flight numbers and some can be quite creative. American Airlines flight AA1776 between Boston and Philadelphia, for example, would pay tribute to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which took place in Philadelphia in 1776.

Superstition sometimes influences numbers. Many airlines have incorporated number 8 into their Asian routes as this number is considered lucky in many Asian cultures.

The United Airlines flight between San Francisco and Beijing, for example, is 888 UAH.

"Lucky" numbers are sometimes also used on flights to popular game destinations.

Then there are the numbers that airlines do not like to use.

Sometimes this is also due to superstition, which excludes "unlucky" numbers 13 and 666. Another rarely-seen number is 911.

Airlines have traditionally withdrawn the number of stolen flights. The route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, formerly served by Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, now uses MH360.

United Airlines and American Airlines, who hijacked planes during the September 11 attacks, renumbered the flights.

But in the absence of superstition or tragedy, flight numbers can stay with airlines for a long time.

"Numbers can stay in use for many years, even though departure times and aircraft types may change," said pilot Patrick Smith at news.com.au.

"In some cases, they survive longer than airlines, and to date some of Delta's flight numbers on its European routes date back to Pan Am, whose European network was sold to Delta more than 20 years ago. . "