Originally Posted by
ijgordon
I noticed the other day that CO #1219 flies EWR-PBI at 8am and then returns, also as CO #1219 from PBI-EWR at 12pm. Is this common? How is this "allowed"? Seems quite confusing operationally.
I noticed an interesting instance of this earlier today. Screwing around on ITA, looking for mileage runs, I noticed that XXX-BWI has a lot of routings that go XXX-IAH-EWR-BWI. Still not a good MR... except that there's a CO flight that goes IAH-SNA and then SNA-EWR, with the same flight number. And on ITA, it prices out the same as any other IAH-EWR -- for about 2000 extra miles.
(I wasn't sufficiently motivated to see if the fare would actually book on .bomb or CO.com. Also, identity of XXX is left as an exercise for the sufficiently motivated reader).