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Old Apr 22, 2024 | 12:58 am
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The short answer is there are no enought flight numbers for all the flights to be unique.

Additional this allows selling UA2166 as SFO-IAD as a Direct, 1-stop flight. I suspect this later characteristic is part of the decision when to offer.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Apr 22, 2024 at 10:13 am Reason: typo
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