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Old Aug 24, 2013 | 9:26 pm
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Originally Posted by Manoa Chris
What's the distinction? Is flight number a major change, but a small time change is not?
There's some interesting reading in a few other places that might help shed some light onto the behind-the-scenes reasons for when a reissue is required:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alask...l#post12195977 (start here and read forward, especially posts #15-18)
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...ml#post9255270
http://www.amadeus.com/qa/documents/...0-%20Mar07.pdf (Amadeus instead of Sabre, but the concepts are similar)
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...5105517AADe32m (wow, the first useful thing I've ever seen on Yahoo! Answers! )
http://www.aa.com/i18n/agency/Bookin..._ticketing.jsp (inside look at e-tickets from AA's/Sabre's perspective)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro...th_an_e-ticket, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Name_Record, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_locator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boarding_pass, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline...tion_.28PNR.29 (a couple of other random Wikipedia articles)
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