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Old Dec 8, 2013 | 5:15 pm
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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
You have answered your own question -- UA is re-using flight numbers because in a given day UA has more flights then it has flight numbers.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...-shortage.html
One way to solve the flight number shortage is to use muti direct flight segments through the hubs as both UA and CO did in the 1970's and 1980's.
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