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Old Aug 16, 2021 | 1:26 pm
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I have seen it somewhat frequently with DL. There are not that many available flight numbers (so much of the space is reserved for codeshares, Connection, etc.) so they try to conserve. It's not the norm though.

Often it is when the frame is doing a turn, so it's a way to compress flight numbers without having the same callsign in the air multiple times (although obviously they can do that if needed).
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