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Old May 1, 2009 | 9:55 am
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Originally Posted by PhoenixBuff
While 10000 flight numbers may sound like a lot, Continental/Continental Express probably use close to half of those for their own flights.
No, they really don't. CO/CoEx has a lot of flights but not nearly that many. And there are a lot of codeshares but not so many that they really need to do direct flights rather than each segment having a unique number.
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