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Old Feb 13, 2020 | 3:31 pm
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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA
Isn't a 10 numeric digit field closer to 10 billion unique codes?

And does not UA use 016 codes for more than "tickets', but any "fee" UA charges.
Haha, oof, apologies to readers for the bad math there. It was a long night.

Yeah I do think they use the eticket number namespace for a bunch of kinds of documents that don't necessarily correspond to a plane ticket, so maybe they are recycling.
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