Originally Posted by
ty97
At that time, AA chose to make a good number of AAA-BBB-AAA flights as well as increased usage of AAA-BBB-CCC flight numbers (especially adding domestic segments to international flight numbers). Why AA didn't opt for more of the AAA-BBB-CCC variety rather than doing so much AAA-BBB-AAA I can't say. Doesn't seem to harm anything, though it does drive confusions for fliers every once in a while.
And for agents. Apparently there have been increased instances of agents mistakenly informing passengers that their flight has been delayed or cancelled because they misread the flight information for an "out and back" flight number.
I would prefer if they took the LUS approach and had more AAA-BBB-CCC where it's actually the same airplane flying both legs.
Maybe once the flight number ranges are fully integrated we'll have more logical flight numbering.