Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don't Know What to Do

Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by indus on Monday August 05, 2024 @10:28AM (#41161683)

In 2010, Indian railways switched from a four-digit numbering system to five digits.

They were running out of train numbers.

Indian railways today operates 13,000 trains daily.

There is a PDF that talks about the problem, the solution, exceptions, and a rollout plan.

One fine day, IT systems seamlessly transitioned—-took some time to wipe the old numbers from passengers memories.

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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by akpa1 on Monday August 05, 2024 @02:05PM (#41163740)

Do you have a link to the PDF?

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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by indus on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:40PM (#41166595)

I need to fish the exact one but this is the public cover of that

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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by Green-Man on Monday August 05, 2024 @03:58PM (#41164933)

I looked up the nickname of the author of the commentary. Now I feel recursion is still running inside my brain

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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by indus on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:17PM (#41175994)

oh man! such a comment ;-)

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