Seq 274 on a 176-seat B738
Oct 25, 2016, 11:14 am
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Sounds like you might also be posting in this thread...
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ua-2016-a.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...ua-2016-a.html
Oct 25, 2016, 11:59 am
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Oct 25, 2016, 12:03 pm
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For instance, flight 492 goes from IAD to LAS "Direct" but it stop in SFO, you change planes, but you don't change flight number. If you are on the flight from just SFO your check in time would be well after those on the plane from IAD and you would be sequentially after all of them for that flight.
Oct 25, 2016, 1:35 pm
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Ohhhh. Thanks! I had also been idly wondering how I got seemingly-impossible sequence numbers from time to time. Never mind that these "direct" flights are flying things like ORD-IAD-SFO..
I think my favorite "direct flight" I've seen recently flew IAD-PIT-IAD with one flight number.
I think my favorite "direct flight" I've seen recently flew IAD-PIT-IAD with one flight number.
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(At which point I believe it is limited by the lack of a fifth pair of exit doors, hence the MAX-2 request.)
Oct 25, 2016, 2:24 pm
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Oct 25, 2016, 5:06 pm
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I've gotten SEQ 408 on a 0750 departure IAH-EWR operated by a 73G (118 pax). It was a 4-digit flight number so it couldn't have been the continuation of an earlier international widebody flight, and I've still not figured out how I got such a large number hmm.
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Continuation flight:
For instance, flight 492 goes from IAD to LAS "Direct" but it stop in SFO, you change planes, but you don't change flight number. If you are on the flight from just SFO your check in time would be well after those on the plane from IAD and you would be sequentially after all of them for that flight.
For instance, flight 492 goes from IAD to LAS "Direct" but it stop in SFO, you change planes, but you don't change flight number. If you are on the flight from just SFO your check in time would be well after those on the plane from IAD and you would be sequentially after all of them for that flight.
25 Oct UA1960 EWR-LAX 10:59--13:44
25 Oct UA1960 LAX-EWR 16:19--23:47
(http://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL1960)
A little baffling. This used to happen with express flights a lot but it's a surprise to see it happen to mainline flights.
Was there a *later* flight on the same day with the same flight #? I'm pretty sure there's not a separate number range for each part of a direct flight -- if 0750 IAH-EWR was the first flight of the day for that flight number but it continued onward as something like EWR-LAX-SFO, I can certainly see a late check-in for the 0750 flight plus a bunch of early check-ins for the other sectors triggering a #408.