Originally Posted by
FlyBitcoin
... it is probably also done to reduce the number of listings that have double connections vs a single connection. PWM-JFK-LAX-SYD becomes PWM-JFK-SYD because of flight 41 originating in JFK.
that’s a very cogent observation — which is again a corollary to the initial res system display architecture ... nonstop flights first, followed by one-stop “thru” flights with no change of plane, then single connections, then multi-stop “thru” flights (think the UA island-hopper or the AS milk run along the Inside Passage), finally multi-connection options