Travel site Kayak.com is offering what at first glance looks like standard one-way flight from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, California. If you are a Lost fan those particular locations should ring a bell. If you look further into the flight details, more Lost clues come to the surface. The airline? Oceanic Airlines. Take-off date? September 22. Airfare? $4,815.16. Taxes and fees? $23.42. Flight duration? 10 hours, 8 minutes. Clearly the site is playing with the Lost numbers that are key to the show’s mythology: 4 8 15 15 23 42 and 108, as well as other show factoids: The Losties crashed on September 22, 2004, on an Oceanic Airlines flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. So what’s really going on here?
Obviously the people at Kayak.com are Lost fans and couldn’t resist the urge to offer up this flight in anticipation of the final season. When you actually go to buy a ticket for this flight, the site redirects you to the Lostpedia website, specifically to the Oceanic Flight 815 page. After some digging, Slashfilm traced it all back to BoingBoing and the Twitter account of a staff writer. When asked about this easter egg, a Kayak PR rep responded “It’s a mystery,” with a smiley face emoticon.