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Old Aug 18, 2007, 8:39 pm
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Originally Posted by IggySD
About a month ago my flight from SFO-SAN became UA431 Tango. I'm sure it's a simple question but what did the Tango refer to?
It usually means that United is reusing the flight number, so the add a letter to the call sign to avoid any potential confusion.
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