Originally Posted by
heraclitus
My answer is "it depends". If we're talking adding 6 hours to an international itinerary by choosing a legacy carrier I'd be inclined to do a non-stop on a budget airline.
I don't have much faith in Ryanair or Spirit types of ultra-LCC operations and I'd only pick them if there was a vast price difference between them and their competitors. Other budget airlines like Southwest I think I'd be a little more receptive to.
Well, Spirit flies many routes once a day, which brings up two points:
It may be shorter, but flight time may not be convenient @:-)
And in case of IrrOps, next flight may be next day, if it isn't full already
Originally Posted by
EmailKid
Others have pointed out the obvious, but up until last year the extra segments would be what I needed to qualify for status (being a budget traveler it's hard with minimum spend). If I flew nonstops I'd be a few thousand miles short.
Also amazingly enough got upgraded on both DFW-IAH and IAH-SAN for tomorrow's flights
Sadly, no u/g on way back
