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Dec 22, 2006, 9:19 pm

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Originally Posted by cdavishi

I noticed Hawaiian seems to be renumbering some on their flights. Is this due to a tardy schedule from a shortage of planes? On Thursday, 12/21/06, there was no flight 36 to Phoenix at the 3:20 pm departure time, but there was a Flight 1036 that left 7 hours later at 10:20pm. Sounds like a technique to keep their on-time record alive.

This is actually common practice for most airlines, and something not just limited to HA.

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