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Old Jul 19, 2016 | 9:44 pm
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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.

Plus, as daveland mentions, insult to injury indeed...Ural airlines states they have about 20 partners on their webpage, but I can't credit these miles to any of these airlines - Ural doesn't show up as an option. And I am likely never flying Ural airlines again, so....*sigh*
Not at all; "direct" flights are common with USA airlines, and can involve stops and even "change of gauge", and domestic + international flights (widebody aircraft to narrowbody or vice versa). UA operates the notorious "island hopper" UA 154, which flies Honolulu, Majuro, Kwajalein, Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk, and Guam.

Nonstop means nonstop; among airlines, through and direct do not mean nonstop.
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