Originally Posted by
wxguy
True! Sometimes if I get a GS agent on the phone I've talked to before, I'll recite my old UA number ("triple zero, seven zero.....") and she'll find me! My original OnePass number begins with "AA," which I'm told is how they first started when the program was instituted.
Interesting... I've always wondered about the 'originals': Since OnePass was (IIRC/as I understand it) originally an Eastern Airlines and Continental joint excursion -- or perhaps, as with what is now SHARES, part of Lorenzo's asset pillaging of Eastern, started with Eastern and CO got pulled into it -- I figured it was 50/50 that the first numbers were either AA111111 or CO111111 and EA111111... The 2L portion always seemed too convenient a coincidence for the IATA-obsessed airline world, conversely only a million possible combinations would seem shortsighted. But the chance that pre-internet fact being documented anywhere readily findable is nearly nil.
That said: I've just realized that my Ohio drivers' license number -- and I have no idea why this is residing in the quick-access part of my brain -- is also 2L6N... Now I wonder if there's some ancient database system where that was a default data type.
More than one agent has been confused when I've walked up to a kiosk and (quickly) punched in my MP# ("sir, that's not a confirmation number", "you need to scan any credit card") and had my reservation magically appear.