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Plane Sense Airline Company Frequencies By Bill Hoefer <flacap388@hotmail.com> |
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Happy holidays from the nice sunny “west-coast of the east-coast of North America,” namely Tampa Bay, Florida. I was wondering just what I was going to do for the Christmas issue and it finally came to me. Most of my columns have been about monitoring communications between pilots and air traffic control (ATC). But nothing has been written in conjunction with airline/dispatch communications. So, this month I’ll reveal my vast (cough-cough) listing of frequencies used by the various airline companies talking to their en-route aircraft. Remember that this listing is not inclusive, can vary from airport to airport, and many frequencies are being phased out, if not already replaced by digital ACARS (Aircraft Communications, Addressing, And Reporting System) units. But before I get to the frequency listings I have an aviation trivia question that happens to somewhat coincide with the release of the new Star Trek film (Star Trek Nemesis) being released this month. The question is: Which of these airway fixes found in the National Airspace System does not exist—KIRKK, SPOCK, SCOTT, MCCOY, SCOTY? The answer appears after the list of changes at the end of the column.
The following listing is of various
frequencies used by the airlines. They are in order of the callsign of the
airline, followed by the three-letter ICAO identifier for each airline,
the name of the airline company (if needed), and the frequencies. I’d like
to know what you hear. |
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