COPENHAGEN (dpa-AFX) - Flight 666 for HEL departed just after the 13th hour on Friday, October 13, for one last time.
Nevertheless, the FinnAir A320 flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, did land safely at HEL - the International Air Transport Association code for Helsinki in Finland - an hour and a half later in partly sunny weather.
Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition and the fear of the number 13 has been given a scientific name - 'triskaidekaphobia.'
The number 666 is called the 'number of the Beast' and is popularly associated with the devil from Christianity. A combination of the two numbers is dreaded by the superstitious.
But not for Finnair, whose Flight AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki is a regularly scheduled flight.
FinnAir said in a tweet last Friday, 'Today was the last time Finnair AY666 flied on Friday the 13th. We have 15 AY666 flights left before our flight number change on October 29th.'
The airline noted that in eleven years, it has flown AY666 to HEL 21 times on Friday the 13th.
FinnAir added that it was retiring the flight number 666 as the airline is growing and needed more flight numbers. Therefore, AY666 from Copenhagen to Helsinki will change to AY954.
However, the airline noted that it still has a flight from SIN, the code for Singapore's Airport, to HEL.
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