Originally Posted by
tev9999
The direct routing in this case is only two miles less than the individual segments. I would not worry about it, unless of course you are collecting segments.
And as
OP said, not really worried about the miles as much as the automatic upgrades. As stated, for a "direct" flight, you need to have R class availability on all segments that share the same flight number, hence you now need to score the upgrades for both flights or get no upgrades unless you can snag something in the battlefield.