Originally Posted by
FullFare
So flying on a pathway form Milwaukee--Houston--San Francisco? That's either a mileage run (in FT lingo---for miles) or a major economic windfall, perhaps from the internet, that is unfortunately balanced by the risk by donating one's time in transit and all the risks of what happened with connecting, etc.
Or there may simply be other factors in their routing decision that I am simply unaware of.
It shouldn't matter. Plenty of people, especially here on FT of all places, do not take the shortest distance between two points. There are a myriad of reasons why, from mileage run to price to choice of carrier to liking to fly and wanting to see the country from a RJ... whatever it is the fact remains that they were trying to fly from MKE to SFO and something went wrong. "Next time drive to ORD and fly" is certainly one piece of advice, but not really relevant to the query which is legitimate IMHO.