Originally Posted by
arnaudgf
The funny thing is that even if it's the same flight number, I don't think it's the same aircraft (or the aircraft was moved from one gate to the other faster than it took me to walk there
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You are correct. Today the flight arrives gate C22 and departs B6, was accommodated at the same gates yesterday.
The mystery is that they utilize only one seat chart for the entire segment, so that generally means it is the same aircraft. If it's a funnel flight, meaning for whatever reason they use the same flight number for two segments on different aircraft, then a secondary seat chart should pop up for segment two.
This one is really funky and out of the ordinary. Moving an aircraft between gates during an enroute stopover is highly unusual, at least on a domestic flight. The next time you are on that flight ask the crew what sort of funny business is going on at DTW.
The airlines operate in a parallel dimension sometimes. If you try to make sense of it you'll go mad.