An Ajira Airways commercial was played at the end of the Dharma Special Access (DSA) video for this week.

The Ajira Airways site (released Dec. 29, 2008) was updated revealing some hidden items including the Flight #316 and a hidden easter egg of a limo driver holding a sign saying “316″ as well.

On the Ajira Airways website, if you go to Book a Flight, use the promo code. The promo code is the code on the Sky Card (the black card on the webpage). When you put the numbers on a code reader, they say Promo. The numbers are 112 114 111 109 111.

All the Ajira Adventures posts on the website are by Antonio B. MacCutcheon, the last name the same name of the whiskey that we’ve seen so many times on Lost.

In the About Ajira section, it says, “The skies have no limit with our new destinations beginning January 21st.” This is the premiere date of Season 5. I’m assuming we should check back at that point.

In 0:05 of the commercial for Ajira Airways, there is a screencap of a limo driver in an airport holding a sign that says (something) 316. The sign translates from Devanagari as “John 316″. The Bible translation for John 3:16 is “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” There is a date in the corner of the photo that says 1/21/2009: the date of the Season 5 premiere.

From Lostpedia entry on Ajira Airways:

On the Ajira Adventures page, under the Island Adventures, there is the option to download instructions for making an origami 3D ball from plain paper. A tag on the site says “Travel Tip: Teach your kids some origami to make the time fly by. Be sure to use your boarding pass… you never know what you might find hiding right inside”. A sample boarding pass is also available from the site. Printing out the pass and then following the origami instructions results in the airport code GUM (Guam) appearing inside the viewing hole on the ball when it is made. Also directly above “GUM” is the word “Time”, perhaps linking in with the instructions “make the time fly by”.

The pass also has other numbers on it. The bar code is 144 47 50E, whilst 13 29 02N appears on the “Airline use” line. Using these codes as coordinates, a browser such as Google Earth can be used to show that the coordinates are for Guam International Airport. Coupled with this is the source code message from one of the website pages “Where America’s day begins”. Not only is this the official motto of Guam, but the words also reportedly appear on the Airport building.

There has been speculation that using this information, along with the “316″ hidden frame seen during the promotional video, one might be able to access a further easter egg on the Flight booker page of the site. This has been augmented by the discovery that the Sky Club card has the numbers 112 114 111 109 111. These are ASCII code for the word P-R-O-M-O, suggesting that these numbers could be entered under the promotional code section of the flight booking page. Currently, however, no user has managed to yield any result when booking other than a fail message.

Little things:

• Ajira is Hindi for “island” or “isle”.
• Ajira in Sanskrit may mean “a place to run or fight”, “area” or “court”.
• Ajira in Sanskrit also means “The Body” and “Any object of sense, air, wind, a frog” “Swift.
• Ajira in Ararbic means “Eternal life after Death”.
• When the Ajira Airways site launches, the plane flies across the screen, and an island is seen in the background. This island looks strikingly similar to the Island.
• At the Lost signing event on November 19, 2008 at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, Ajira Beer was handed out to those in attendance, with the same logo as seen on the Ajira Airways website.
• The site contains temperatures and times for major cities around the world. Rome, Italy is listed as 72 degrees at 8:28 – the sum of these numbers is 108, the sum of the Numbers from the show.
• The five watermarks on the corners and top-center of the boarding pass are the same symbols found on the countdown timer in the Swan station.
• Ajira Airways appears to be an Indian airline, as Devanagari (used in the logo and in the promotional video) is used to write many Indian-based languages.
• Time in Los Angeles is marked as 11:30am on the site, and the time of flight 316 on the flight booking page is 11:30am.
• The times listed with temperatures from around the world do not correspond. Each is several minutes faster or slower than the others from elsewhere in the world. While this would make sense for hours, it does not for minutes, unless one calculates and accounts for time differentials the way Daniel Faraday does.
  • Several cities share the same minutes – :x1 – Santa Monica, Ames; :x3 – Bangkok, Tustin, NYC; :x4 – Tokyo, Wellington; :x6 Seoul, Portland
• Many of the cities listed are connected to the main characters of the show. (example: Santa Monica-Hurley; Ames-Kate; Tustin – Locke).
  • Seven of the cities appear to be the birthplaces or residences of those who must return to the Island (i.e., the Oceanic 6 plus Ben and Locke) — Jack (Los Angeles); Ben (Portland); Sun (Seoul); Sayid (Baghdad); Locke (Tustin); Kate (Ames); Hurley (Santa Monica).
  • Four other cities are the capital cities of Mexico (Mexico City), Italy (Rome), New Zealand (Wellington), and Thailand (Bangkok).
• The flight attendant pictured on the home page has an ouroborous pin on her uniform, similar to Mrs. Hawking’s in Flashes Before Your Eyes.
• Prior to the site’s relaunch on December 29th, ABC issued a number of LOST-themed postcards. Some of the postcards featured the Ajira logo.

My guess is that Ajira Airlines is the way back to the Island.