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Old Dec 8, 2019, 8:52 pm
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Originally Posted by cmd320
This is how they used to run it 15 years ago when JFK-BOM was still a thing (prior to moving it to ATL for the very short lived ATL-BOM experiment). I believe at that time it carried the same flight number all the way (ATL-JFK-BOM and BOM-JFK-ATL). If I’m not too delusional I believe it was DL15/16 or DL16/17 or something around there. At that time it was run with a 772 as the 77L had not joined the fleet yet, so I don’t think it *has* to be a 77L.
This is correct. DL16 was ATL-JFK-BOM. I flew it once on the domestic portion when it was a 777-200ER. When the LRs showed up, they made it nonstop from Atlanta.

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