Originally Posted by
davetravels
Wow! With more than 3000 posts, have you been living in a cave?
One example: The other day I was on DL61 which goes JFK/ATL/GIG. It arrives in ATL at concourse A and leaves from concourse T on a different plane altogether. It's planned - NOT a last minute aircraft swap. JFK/ATL is late, and the thru pax onboard assume they'll be ok going on to Rio! But noooo!! ATL/GIG leaves on time. Also, often times it's even a different aircraft TYPE indicating that the whole "direct flight" concept is kind of a scam! A side note is that the airlines only give FF miles from A to C as opposoed to A to B + B to C. Did I miss anything?
Only one thing....unless really look for it on DL.com - all indications are that the flight is truly direct. I did ICN->PDX last week. That's what the Itinerary said. 1 flight number, no indications there was a stop. Had no clue until about 1 week before there was a stop in NRT. At least it was the same aircraft type (no seat issues) but due to a delay in the ICN->NRT part - I almost missed NRT->PDX. If I had known it wasn't a true non-stop - I might have booked differently