august utc whatever the flight should be called depends on what criteria are used if one goes by what the tickets read and what the gate agents and flight attendants announced the flight is delta flight or if you want to be real technical something very similar to delta flight operated by comair for delta connection however if one goes by how the pilots and air traffic controllers referred to the flight then it is comair flight their actual words would have been comair thus far the news media has called it comair flight probably for two reasons one the flight was called everywhere that wasn't behind the scenes and two delta wants to make it clear that the flight wasn't operated by delta but was instead operated by comair therefore one winds up with comair flight which works but isn't really quite accurate alex