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Old Feb 10, 2014 | 12:51 pm
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I have seen a second instance of the same flight number once, also due to a large delay of the initial flight. IIRC this was the last flight of the day.

An employee told me that the second flight is given a 9xxx flight number to distinguish it on the internal systems.

Last edited by nsx; Feb 10, 2014 at 6:42 pm Reason: corrected from 8xxx
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