Originally Posted by tgtg
One of the bad things about direct, is that you get no benefit (sometimes change planes, and can actually miss you connection) and usually a hit in miles, especially the more acute the angle between the legs.
-=tg=-
The hit in miles affects the short hop flyers more. For example, a recent MLB-BHM direct thru ATL was supposed to get around 600 miles, 2 seperate flights gets a total of 1000. This was also a problem when segments counted, I wanted those 2 segments and only got 1.