Originally Posted by
fastair
Yesterday, I worked an ORD-CLE flight and got a call from our connection planner that we were going to be holding a few min for a few connections coming in on a IAH-ORD flight (it made up time and the people were directed quickly to us, so we didn't end up delaying the flight) and my 1st thought was "Aren't there plenty of IAH-CLE non-stop flight options without having to fly thru ORD?!?!"
Maybe .bomb offered the connecting flights cheaper than the nonstops? I know that's not as common today as it was under PMUA, but I do have it happen (and hate it when it's a routing which gives no or marginal extra miles, e.g. SFO-DEN-IAD instead of SFO-IAD, which is a frequent choice .bomb offers me, often at a significant discount over the nonstop).