Malaysia Airlines to Retire Call Sign 370

Wall Street Journal-Southeast Asia ^ | March 13, 2014 | Joanne Chiu

[henbane]

Malaysia Airlines will retire flight number 370 on its busy service between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, days after the disappearance of one of its widebody jets on that route. The carrier said in a statement that the decision to retire the number is a mark of respect to the passengers and crew on board the flight who are still missing. Malaysia Airlines will replace the northbound flight from Friday with new flight number 318, with the return flight to Kuala Lumpur changing to flight 319 from flight 371.

[henbane]

Malaysia Airlines jumping ugly--writing off 239 humans before knowing if they're still alive or not.

Here's an interesting comment at bottom of article:

• Kaytie wrote:
Yet this shows up when you Google 'Malaysia flight 370'

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Scheduled – departs in 12 hours 16 mins
KUL
PEK
Departs Kuala Lumpur,
Saturday, March 15
Time Terminal Gate
12:35 AM M -
Arrives Beijing, Saturday, March 15 Time Terminal Gate 6:30 AM 3

Can you imagine anxious family members seeing this come up on the board?

Breaks your heart.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Flight 319 on the return trip to KL?

Muzzies love the number 19! Go ogle it! You’ll see what I mean.

[Sarah Barracuda]

According to Expedia, for 381 bucks you can get on that flight. Horrible, can’t imagine the family members seeing that and hoping that their loved ones come off that flight

[Gene Eric]

>> Malaysia Airlines will retire flight number 370

Premature, wouldn’t ya’ say?