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What would stop the airlines to use more than one airline code? For example for American Airlines not only to use flight numbers like AAxxxx but also ABxxxx. AB
by andix 2y ago
What would stop the airlines to use more than one airline code? For example for American Airlines not only to use flight numbers like AAxxxx but also ABxxxx. AB is assigned to Air Berlin, which went out of service in 2017.
Edit: A1 seems to be unassigned, which might be even better, to not create confusions.
- alfalfasprout 2y agoThat's my hunch too (since you can basically forget anything like 5 digit numbers of alphanumeric due to old DBs that can't be migrated easily). Probably the issue is that lots of assumptions around AA exclusively being American Airlines is baked in somewhere. That said, it seems easier than any of the alternatives (and recycling seems excessively risky and confusing).