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Old Jul 12, 2006 | 3:11 pm
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Originally Posted by noah
Are they short of flight numbers?
Strange as it sounds, I would imagine they are. There is a method to UA's "flight numbering" madness...for example, flights to Europe are in the 900s, where as flights to Asia are 800s. Then there are transcon and HI flights which are from 1-99; etc. etc.

Do the math...UA has about 2000 flights a day...but they only number into the 1000s.
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