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Oct 12, 2025 | 2:50 pm

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Originally Posted by BinSabai

Bangkok Post - Direct flights to US resume Oct 26 after decade-long absence

unfortunately not TG but UA resume direct flights from LAX to BKK....

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Originally Posted by LIH Prem

These are the previously announced and discussed UA flights from HKG, so not a non-stop.

Indeed.

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Originally Posted by Kacee

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In fact, "direct" is the precise word that is to be used when you have a one-stop through-flight with a single flight number. "Direct" and "non-stop" are not synonyms (though they are sometimes incorrectly used interchangeably).

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Personal pet peeve of mine. Even "seasoned" travelers and bloggers mix this up all the time.

Remember well discussion about CO 888 when it launched, where people were complaining about getting LESS miles (redeemable and status - anyone remember earning status by mile?) because BOS-EWR-PEK was shorter than EWR-PEK

And remember even better the "direct" UA flight DFW-NRT with "gauge change in SFO"

OTOH, on different dates there was also "direct" SFO-SIN (IIRC) with no gauge change (747 on both legs), but plane change at NRT.

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