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Old Oct 8, 2015 | 11:27 am
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Originally Posted by TrojanTraveler
DL used to have the same flight numbers for transoceanic flights for many many years. I think it was a few years back that they started changing them all. JFK to CDG was 118, FRA was 106, etc. .
The two "old-timer" flight numbers for JFK-Europe that lasted the longest before the latest switch to the 400+ series for JFK T4 marketing purposes, were flight DL30 JFK-SVO and DL82 JFK-NCE. Those two kept the same flight numbers since 1991 when DL bought the routes from Pan Am (used to be PA30 JFK-SVO 747 and PA82 JFK-NCE A310)

Originally Posted by TrojanTraveler
I thought the only transoceanic flight (out of JFK) that DL canceled in the past 15 years that has never come back was JFK-MUC. .
There have been quite a few others in the last 15 years: BUD, VLC, LYS, KBP, CAI, AMM- all have not returned...
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