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 taneliv on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:46PM (#41165929)

Like the mechanical displays at various airports across the world pictured in the article?

Overall seems like a project of huge size and somewhat unknown reach. Not my domain, but I would imagine all kinds of ground support systems to have the four letter flight numbers baked deep into their assumptions. And not only direct support like fuel, cleaning, work shift scheduling, but also logistics systems for cargo, military systems, myriad of ticketing systems etc.

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Re:Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don'... by Aeolun on Monday August 05, 2024 @07:53PM (#41166672)

So we’re already too late by about 20 years to fix the issue properly.

Undoubtedly we’ll push the issue forward for another 10 years before realizing that the next best time to start was today :/

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