Originally Posted by
CloudsBelow
Not going to pile on the OP as that's been taken care in most of the posts above. Actually think the OP has some valid points.
One question (not sure if it was covered)-
OP, sounds like your time is very, very, very valuable,

, Why did you not book (and pay the premium for) the nonstop?
Yea... I was doing a multi-city itin and when you do that, you have to pick all the flights first before you get to see a $, and I wasn't going to go through the 200 permutations to check out prices, so I just clicked on "price" and picked an itin from there.