Originally Posted by
DrRodneyMcKay
My sense though is that, at the moment at least, it's less of a North American phenomenon and more of a European (Asian? Russian?) one. I fly in North America at least a dozen times a year and have never encountered this, but in Russia it seems to be all over the advertisements.
Again, I'm shocked that you fly this much and have never even heard of or encountered a direct (not a nonstop) flight. They're very, very common on Southwest throughout the US. Also, in Alaska on AS, they're also quite common and referred to as "milk run" flights.