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Old Oct 8, 2015 | 10:55 am
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
That's sad. DL 16/17 is traditional in my mind.
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DL16/17 has been used for three different routes over the last dozen or so years:

JFK-CDG (when there were 2x daily JFK-CDG flights, around early 2000s-2005), then
JFK-BOM (the nonstop flight 2006 - 2008)
then
LAX-SYD (2009 - 2015?)
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