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Nov 23, 2010 | 7:21 am

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Originally Posted by FlyinDutchman

Some airlines have stops on long haul flights when flying to remote places of this earth to connect some other places with the same plane. While the airlines don't count this as another segment (ie a direct flight with one stop), do you consider this a segment in your own counting? Just curious...

For me, if I'm able to leave the aircraft and actually do so (or am required to do so), yes, whereas if I don't (or am required to remain on board, as with CX712/713 HKG<->SIN via BKK) then it doesn't.

Obviously, the "it's separate" counts doubly when it's a change of plane (or in some cases aircraft type)even without change of flight #.

This can produce comic/tragic results at times when the second leg leaves without the first; I'm fairly sure it's happened at least twice on AA flights I was on - in the case I'm less sure of I think AA 129 (SJC for NRT) had a leg LAS-SJC which was on a smaller plane (but I may have misunderstood what was going on there), and I know they did the same with AA 46 at some points (SFO-ORD-LHR where SFO-ORD was narrowbody, and when we were late, the ORD-LHR 777 leg left without the ongoing passengers. Fortunately for me, my ORD-LGA leg was delayed even longer than SFO-ORD, but the London-bound folks were understandably livid.)

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