Summary:
There seem to be various different ways of displaying or printing flight
numbers. Is there no international standard for this please?

Detail:
Yesterday I saw off my son and his family on Virgin Atlantic 11:50 flight
from Heathrow to Los Angeles. Then and the during following 12 hours or so
I was assembling 'source material', as I make family DVDs as a hobby.
Apart from the obvious digicam photos and movie clips, I also monitored
flight reports from various web sites.

But this was hindered by inconsistent flight numbering methods that seem
to be used by carriers, airports, web sites, etc. I'm pretty sure I
encountered VS7, VS007, VS 007, VIR 007, VIR007, V7 and more.

In contrast, the aircraft registration format, G-ABCD, doesn't seem to
have changed since my plane-spotting days. Is there any way of determining
that for the above flight, incidentally? I'd like to use my image editor
to get re-touch one of the downloaded images of an Airbus 340-600, which I
established was the plane type.

Any feedback would be much appreciated please.

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Terry, East Grinstead, UK