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Old Oct 19, 2004 | 9:56 pm
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Originally Posted by ncorman
Back in the day when I would fly UA every week I would notice on the message boards at the gate in Denver the mileage listed for the flight and the MP mileage was always different. Two different entities, two different amounts.
I heard that they only updated the mileage to reflect the new DIA relatively recently (last couple years?), and that for some time it was still reflecting the old Stapleton field distances.

UA didn't even know where their hub was!

Edited to add: I remember some flyertalkers who boo'ed the move since their particular flights shrunk by a few miles while other FT'ers were cheering as THEIR particular flights suddently got a few more miles credit.
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