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Airlines Are Running Out Of Flight Numbers, And They Don't Know What To Do About It - View from the Wing (viewfromthewing.com)
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[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just do what we do with word documents, excel ~~databases~~ sheets, etc.

just add "_new", "_final", "_final_final", "_final_draft" etc. to the end of the flight numbers

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

_new (2) final-draft.pdf.docx

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't they just make flight numbers a 5 digit number? Lol

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You mean change a 60 year old database schema? Absurd!

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

How many tables could they need to update anyways? Like 5? Psh

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Just start adding some new symbols.