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Apr 13, 2011 | 9:51 am

SuperG1955

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Same Flight Number for Outbound and Return

I booked the following and was surprised to see the same flight number for the outbound and return flights. Is this a regular occurence?

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Carrier Flight # Depart Arrive Equipment Type Stops Flight Time   
Time/Date Airport Time/Date Airport 
Delta 2006  7:55am 05 Sep 2011 LGA  10:14am 05 Sep 2011 MSY Airbus Industrie A319 0 03:19   

Delta 2006  11:00am 05 Sep 2011 MSY  2:55pm 05 Sep 2011 LGA  Airbus Industrie A319 0 02:55

Apr 13, 2011 | 9:59 am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SuperG1955

I booked the following and was surprised to see the same flight number for the outbound and return flights. Is this a regular occurence?

It is not uncommon. Usually it is a good indication that the aircraft and crew turnaround and return to the originating city (i.e. fly MSY-LGA-MSY).

Apr 13, 2011 | 10:40 am

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because it is the same flight number, you will probably get no miles for the flight as DL.Dumb will think you never left

Apr 13, 2011 | 10:42 am

timf

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I've noticed this as well with DTW-MCO flights this May.

Apr 13, 2011 | 10:48 am

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I just booked ATL-CLT-ALT and the same thing happened. It shows up in my itineraries as just CLT-ATL. I couldn't assign a seat for the return because it says I already have a seat on the flight (outbound). All I care about is getting two quick segments so hopefully I will get ATL-CLT and then CLT-ATL.

Apr 13, 2011 | 11:35 am

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Originally Posted by Geogirl1234

I too have an ATL-CLT and CLT-ATL flight pair with the same # (actually the first segment ATL-CLT is tomorrow)... when I booked the flight I was able to select seats on all 4 segments. I can still see all 4 segments, but if I click to select a seat on the CLT-ATL segment now it gives me an error. It will be interesting to see what happens after I fly tomorrow (and the return is actually a week out).

Apr 13, 2011 | 11:42 am

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Happens more often than not out of GFK, and I assume most of the small midwest markets, especially on the Skywest legs. My last trip, I flew GFK-MSP on the same flight number as MSP-GFK a week later.... I thought it was kinda cool.