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Old Sep 12, 2009 | 11:04 am
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Originally Posted by Lana537
Before posting here, I searched. I telephoned American and spoke to a representative who said something about codeshare numbers being compressed.
Looking at the last AA Timetable and comparing to AA.com for a couple of random dates in Nov, it seems that many (all) Eagle flights that were previously numbered 47## have been renumbered. I suppose that 'codeshare number compression' could refer to Eagle flights technically being considered codeshares.
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