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Old Aug 27, 2015 | 2:27 pm
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Originally Posted by flyerCO
I think it's more a case of people assuming that direct flights work like they used to. Ie that it wasn't possible to misconnect on a direct. Sadly that's only true nowadays on WN.
It wasn't that way before, either. Even when a flight was supposed to be the same plane making one stop, if it was late, airlines would sometime substitute another aircraft for the second leg and passengers on the one-stop would miss their supposedly-non-connection.
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