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Old Apr 2, 2023 | 2:25 am
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Originally Posted by sea_flyer_17
I have some July flights and Dec flights that have each had at 3 rounds of flight number changes in the past month, with no other changing details

every time it’s the same -
  • Saturday morning flight disappears and I lose my seats
  • no routes show up at all if I search for a new booking
  • Saturday Evening I can search for the routes on DL.com and see they exist with exact same operator, time and route - but new flight numbers
  • but I can’t yet change my flights on app or on web to get the new one
  • I can text in to get them to fix it
  • or I once waited for them to process on Monday but seats were gone

any way I can self serve fix or anyone know why they are updating the same routes so much for flight numbers only?
Numbers fir most part are randomly assigned except for 300 and below.

As changes are made numbers get reassigned. It also issue due to limits of flight numbers. This is a bigger issue nowadays than in past years, due to # of flights.

Schedule change starts on Saturday, but depending on size of load, can run into late Sunday.
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