Originally Posted by Gman3
You are also confusing your terminology. Nonstop means such. "Direct" does NOT mean nonstop. It means, usually, same aircraft with a stop or 2 on the way. When you are on a direct flight that is continuing on international, you have to deplane the flight before the international leg.
Yes he confused the terminology, but do not you agree that changing planes on a single flight number is confusing? It is really time for DOT to stop this practice. There is absolutely no reason to fly a single flight number through a hub like IAD except for misleading marketing. They want their "direct" flight show up before connecting flights on reservation screens / online searches. And they want people to beleive that "direct" is better then connection.
A single flight number should only be used when the same aircraft is used on all segments, be it for operational or marketing reasons, but it must be the same aircraft.