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Old Apr 8, 2006 | 9:57 pm
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Originally Posted by Gardyloo
I think the 509 number was given out by the Orbitz spokesperson; however I suspect that it's more than one seat per transaction on average, plus whatever totals were sold through other channels including Travelocity etc.

By the way, the story has made it to Beijing. http://english.people.com.cn/200604/...09_256979.html
Why would you think it a count of itineraries and not a count of tickets?

If Orbitz works anything like Sabre/Travelocity, I would think it easier for the data analysts to run a query by ticket number to segment and then pull up counts than to run a query by PNRs.
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