Originally Posted by
IADCAflyer
Well, I hope they keep assigning non-sensical city pairs the same flight number.
It really, really blows goat when you fly DCA-CLT-ATL and get only 547 miles because you have a continuing flight with the same number whereas you would get 1,000 miles for flying DCA-CLT and CLT-ATL with two different flights with different flight numbers.
And to add insult to injury, there is often a "change of plane".
If this is the WORST thing that has happened to you, then you are a very lucky person.
AA decided against most "through" flights a few years back because it often would involve a change of aircraft and/or complaints from customers concerned about mileage credit. Thirty years ago, direct flights made a lot of sense because they appeared higher on the reservations systems' screens (when travel agents did the vast majority of booking). Now, not so much!