Nice to hear there's no charge at the phone company which employs you, bluestructure. They certainly don't all operate under the same fee structure. What part of the world does the company cover?

It doesn't seem logical to allow a person to select area codes, unless it was for cellular service. For a business or a residence, an area code is exactly that : specific to the geographic area. The prefixes are sold to the service providers in blocks, and they are somewhat limited in what they can offer.

I edited out the passage about phone numbers that spell things, using ten digits. The area code/prefix issue isn't clear in my previous post. Let's agree to drop the issue, since it is off-topic.

Are the airlines even offering bereavment fares anymore? I thought I saw somewhere some of them were discontinuing the practice.