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Old Apr 11, 2025 | 1:42 pm
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Originally Posted by as219
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According to Wikipedia, United had 4,100 daily flights as of March 2025. Even if you subtract 9000 and 8000 flights, that still leaves potentially 8,000 numbers, which would seem to be more than enough, so I’m confused…
The number of daily UA operated flights is closer to 5,000 and preCovid it was higher. And many flights are not daily or are seasonal.
And you have a couple handfuls of retired flight numbers and problematic numbers
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