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Old May 30, 2013 | 6:20 pm
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Originally Posted by dorisrpas
Also a rookie 1K segment flyer. As folks have mentioned, RJs carry higher risk of being delayed and/or canceled, so, if getting to your destination by a particular day is important, consider going as direct as you can outbound and adding in a segment here and there on the return.
One thought on direct vs. connection: if the nonstop is an RJ and the connecting flights are mainline (which can actually be the case more often than you'd expect), you might be better off on the connection than on the nonstop.
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