Exactly. DL has been doing this for more than 30 years now. When they began flying nonstop DFW-HNL and ATL-HNL, they picked connecting flights from major Eastern cities (DTW, CLE, PIT, PHL, LGA, BOS, etc.) and gave them single flight numbers with the HNL nonstops. This pushed these flights to the top of the CRS screens travel agents would see. Of course the connecting flights were 727s or DC-9s, and the HNL flights were L1011s, so by definition one had to change planes, but it didn't matter; to the CRS it looked the same as a true through flight.