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Old Feb 5, 2009 | 8:25 pm
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Originally Posted by mobilebucky
I think is just marketing ploy to list as many "Direct flights" as possible.
That's all it is. If UA would guarantee that pax on the one leg would be guaranteed to get onto the next leg when the previous leg was delayed, it would be worth the loss of EQS, EQM, and RDM, but UA doesn't. Stay away from them.
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