Non-Stop Vs Direct Flights - What’s The Difference?

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3 жыл бұрын

Whilst they sound very similar, non-stop and direct flights are not the same. As the name suggests, non-stop will fly between two cities without … well… stopping.
Direct flights, on the other hand, might actually stop, en route to your destination.
This concept dates back to a time when stops on flights were much more common than they are today. But the terminology remains the same, and is often confused.
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@devariemckoy5176 3 жыл бұрын

Thank god i don't have to mix them up anymore because of simple flying explain it . nice video 👍👍👍

@BenkertAviation 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been on British Airways’ now dropped LHR-AUH-MCT route. The crew was super friendly and nice to talk to during the layover !! ✈️✈️

@timallen_uk 3 жыл бұрын

I booked BA15 to Sydney because it was a direct flight and I didn’t need to worry about connecting flights. You have to get off in Singapore with all your cabin bags while the aircraft is cleaned, refuelled and restocked but get back on in the same seat.

@tomstravels520 3 жыл бұрын

I was supposed to be on that last year and wondered if you got off the plane. Do you still get to visit the terminal and be back at a set time or have to wait at the gate?

@timallen_uk 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomstravels520 you can visit the terminal but you don’t get very long. When you get off the gate has a small security station and bag X-ray which you go through to the pre boarding seats. You then go through the boarding gate as normal. I basically had a quick bathroom stop and queued up again. It was about 45 mins before we started filtering through.

@tomstravels520 3 жыл бұрын

@@timallen_uk so you basically get off, circle back round to get scanned and then board again. Well I still hope to get to Australia. Also wanted to go BA15 so didn’t have to worry about bags getting lost at SIN

@timallen_uk 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomstravels520 yeah, I was the same, I didn’t want to have to worry about delays etc. I’ve flown BA15 twice now and will again once travel opens up again. Also even though its counted as 1 flight for certain things BA also count it as 2 for others. So wifi LHR-SIN is 1 flight which you pay for and SIN-SYD is a 2nd flight which you have to pay for again. You also get 2 main meals shortly after take off and 2 light meals before landing (1 LHR-SIN and the other Sin-SYD) and 2 goody bags.

@tomstravels520 3 жыл бұрын

@@timallen_uk well I guess that’s just because people could leave/join at Singapore but thanks for that. I would have done the QF9/10 route if it wasn’t so expensive compared to the BA route

@david.stachon 3 жыл бұрын

ha, this got me once. I flew "direct" from Buenos Ares to Toronto. ...then was shocked we stopped in Santiago on the way.

@anonymoususer3012 3 жыл бұрын

Happened to me too. I flew a direct flight from San Diego to Philadelphia, and I found it very odd when the captain said the flight was stopping in Las Vegas.

@jkacvbhijfn 3 жыл бұрын

Flights to and from Vegas are usually pretty cheap, this could be how the airline keeps costs low, to basically do 2 flights with one plane

@spongebubatz 3 жыл бұрын

I once booked a flight with KLM from Santiago to Amsterdam with a stop in Buenos Aires. It definitely was an interesting experience as it was my first time having such a stop at a third airport. Another gain was that the first leg was rather empty and you’d get a window seat rather easy and as your seat wasn’t changed for the second flight you almost had a window seat guaranteed. The 1.5 hour flight from Santiago to Buenos Aires also was my first short haul flight on a widebody!

@johniii8147 3 жыл бұрын

Called a tag on flight. Not nearly as common as they use to be given advances in range and smaller sized aircraft with long range.

@roshanantony64 3 жыл бұрын

I've travelled on an indigo direct flight from Vadodara to Kochi with stopover in Mumbai. We were the only ones to continue onto Kochi while the flight landed in Mumbai, and during the stopover, the captain invited us to see the cockpit too! Pretty cool guy!

@arjunpadmakumar2961 3 жыл бұрын

Wow😁

@Agent44996 3 жыл бұрын

Once again Simple Aviation has cleared up an aviation question. Thank you. :)

@JoloNavarro 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! ❤️

@AviosAdventurer 3 жыл бұрын

Great to see RwandAir featured here. I took London - Kigali a few years ago, sold as a direct flight. 1 hour on the ground in Brussels and then onwards after they’ve collected a few passengers. The next flight was the same: Kigali to Johannesburg, briefly stopping off in Lusaka.

@Tzvi092 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU for this. So many people, INCLUDING some avgeeks, use the two terms interchangeably

@Charlesfernandez0 3 жыл бұрын

Great piece!

@SimpleFlyingNews 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! - JS

@abdullatiffhamzah8482 3 жыл бұрын

Back in 2019, KLM Royal Dutch from DPS to AMS via Singapore. Didn't disembark while in Singapore, simply off load some passengers and was back in the skies within a little over an hour.

@teoman71 3 жыл бұрын

Many thanks for your sharing! It makes us happy to see out flag carrier airlines in your video!!!

@mohanmenon446 3 жыл бұрын

Good information 👍

@aaronborbahlyngdoh5970 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for such clear explanation.

@timmusumba5846 7 ай бұрын

I studied "Aviation, Travel and Tours so I understand those two terminologies but it can be very confusing indeed before one understands it!

@shrimpflea 3 жыл бұрын

George Carlin on non-stop flights: "I demand that this flight stops! Preferably at the end.

@deadslug 3 жыл бұрын

I think the line is "I want my flight to stop - preferably at an airport."

@shrimpflea 3 жыл бұрын

@@deadslug He did different versions of that joke over the years.

@mojamoja3962 3 жыл бұрын

Informative

@stijnhs 3 жыл бұрын

Istanbul, Turkey to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam stops in the capital Ha Noi as there is normally not enough demand for a flight to each city from Istanbul. I was actually quite surprised when it happened to me for the first time... I blame my noise cancelling headphones 😃

@pattmahiney 3 жыл бұрын

Answered within the first 21 seconds. Love it lol

@MaxVliet 3 жыл бұрын

It's not so much that it takes more fuel to take off from high runways, but the thinner air means they need a lot more runway for each kilogram they weigh. The runways at Addis Ababa are already 3,800 metres long and there isn't much space to increase that. Hence, the big planes can't take off with full fuel and passengers.

@L1011Lover 3 жыл бұрын

What's also important to be mentioned is the fact that a direct flight can even include a change of aircraft. Back in the days when both Pan Am and TWA had huge European networks that included tag-on flights this was very, very common. (Later Delta and United adopted the practise until they withdrew from intra-Europe flying).The ill-fated Pan Am flight PA103 which was bombed over Lockerbie Scotland is a perfect example for this. PA103 was bookable as a single Frankfurt-Detroit direct flight, even though it stopped twice along the way. It originated in FRA on a Boeing 727 to LHR which served the first leg. Pan Am even had 5th freedom rights on the FRA-LHR portion of the flight, meaning they could transport local passenger who'd only go from Frankfurt to London. At LHR the flight changed to a Boeing 747 for the transatlantic leg to New York JFK, where again it changed to another 727 for the final leg to Detroit. That final leg though carried two flight numbers actually, a domestic flight number which domestic passengers were booked on if they'd only fly from JFK to DTW and which was the flights actual ATC and domestic schedule designator and the flight number 103 which passengers were ticketed on if they originated in either FRA or LHR. Both Pan Am and TWA had tons of such flights on both sides of the Atlantic.

@lorentzarmstrong3008 3 жыл бұрын

Back in 1989-1991, while stationed near Stuttgart, Germany, I flew on Delta L-1011’s direct between the two cities that would have a brief stopover in Amsterdam, both directions, and I and others flying through had to remain on the plane at the gate; about 45 scheduled minutes if I recall correctly.

@adozer6848 3 жыл бұрын

I have flown from Los Angeles to Riyadh, it had a stop over in Jeddah to refuel and off load passengers as well as pick up more. It was a 777. I think the flight number was SV 41 or SV 21. Edit: This flight was back in 2014.

@Hans-gb4mv 3 жыл бұрын

KLM does something similar with a flight to Saudi, although the flight has been suspended due to COVID. I think it's Amsterdam to Dammam and on to Riyadh.

@scpatl4now 3 жыл бұрын

When I was little we flew from Atlanta to Missoula MT. After changing planes and airlines (Delta to NWA) in MSP the next flight was direct, but it stopped in Jamestown ND...Bismark ND... Billings MT...Helena MT...then we got to Missoula MT. As a little kid this was lots of fun...as an adult, probably not so much (this was the NW Airlines leg...and it was at least on a 737)

@johniii8147 3 жыл бұрын

NW never flew the 737

@scpatl4now 3 жыл бұрын

@@johniii8147 My bad...727...mistyped it. It was over 40 years ago

@johniii8147 3 жыл бұрын

@@scpatl4now It’s all good no way in hell I could remember what I flew 40 years ago LOL other than a couple of incidents that were quite memorable with engines failing on the 727 oddly

@scpatl4now 3 жыл бұрын

@@johniii8147 Oh, you'd remember this one. I didn't mention the flat tire in Bismark and then waiting 2 hours for them to send one a replacement from MSP

@JohnnyFuturePast 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You I never knew the difference but never had that happen! Now it never will thanks to this video!!!

@Art_bor 3 жыл бұрын

Always loved stopped flights where i stay in a different country for 1 or 2 days lol Btw love your videos best flight channel out there

@SimpleFlyingNews 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback! - TB

@Art_bor 3 жыл бұрын

Omg i never though i would get a reply tnx you made my happy day

@LMays-cu2hp 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@pablofrej4625 3 жыл бұрын

A high-altitude take-off won't burn more fuel (at least not much more). The problem with height is that MTOW decreases due to the less dense atmosphere, which makes the take-off run longer. Ethiopian will have to reduce its fuel weight, thus reducing the airplane's range and making a refuel stop necessary.

@daneclark3161 3 жыл бұрын

I used to fly Northwest from San Francisco to Taipei. It would stop in Kansai where they would kick us off of the plane make us walk a long circuitous route back to the same boarding area that we just left, where we would sometimes re-board the same plane and sometimes board a different plane to continue on to Taipei. It always had a single flight number to Taipei.

@chryslerdsouza4666 3 жыл бұрын

AMAZING

@dennisthebrony2022 Жыл бұрын

I flew a DIRECT flight to Manila from Los Angeles on Philippine Airlines a few times before, when PAL still flew the 747-400 on that route. One direct flight to Manila from LAX (via Hawaii) when I was a baby in 2004, and another flight in 2010 from LAX to Manila (via Guam) when I was 6. But when flying back to Los Angeles from Manila, the flights where NONSTOP, with no stopover at all. Also, before PAL operated the A350s Nonstop from Manila to New York JFK, they used to stopover at Vancouver BC in both directions from JFK to MNL before they had the A350s. They operated those direct flights via Vancouver with the 777-300ERs and the A340s.

@CuriousMaker609 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the day, my brother traveled from SFO to Singapore. The flight had a re-fueling stop in Seoul where passengers were allowed to disembark and walk in a particular part of the airport.

@andyowens5494 3 жыл бұрын

London to Maldives, via Sri Lanka; no great shakes, just swapped a few passengers en route. I assume the airline had enough passengers to fill a plane only if they combined destinations, so the plane flew three legs (London, Sri Lanka, Maldives, London) and served two destinations.

@gerrymccartney3561 3 жыл бұрын

Emirates flights to and from New Zealand have 1 hour 40 minute stops. Kuala lumpur outward and Sydney on the return leg.

@jamesau4296 3 жыл бұрын

During a study tour towards Yunnan, I have ride on a flight that written to be destined to Lijiang but having a technical stop on Kunming. I ended up having a water bottle getting confiscated by security since a transfer would mean to go through all the security processes again.

@karelvandesande9848 3 жыл бұрын

the higher altitude @ Addis does not result in a higher fuel burn. Due to the lower Air density at this altitude less fuel can be uplifted. The aircraft will take off at higher speeds relative to the ground, hence needs to be lighter to take off before the end of the runway and as result has less range.

@JxH 3 жыл бұрын

Once upon a time (in 1996), I flew on Cathay Pacific 747 via Toronto to Hong Kong with a technical stop for refueling at Anchorage, Alaska. The technical stop turned into 36 hours, because one of the engines wouldn't start. First 12 hours were 'creeping delays', very annoying. On the bright side, during the unexpected layover, I met a nice chap from Egypt, an Earthen Dam Engineer, that looked very much like Boutros Boutros-Ghali. When I mentioned the resemblance, he told me that their families were originally from the same village. Also, I got to see the Ceremonial Start of the Iditarod Dog Sled Race, while freezing half to death in tropical clothing. Because of the huge delay, I missed a welcoming party in Davao City, but as compensation for the inconvenience, Cathay Pacific provided a complimentary one-way ticket for my brand new wife. Ah, lifetime memories...

@bishwatntl 3 жыл бұрын

Swissair used to operate a lot of direct longhaul flights to and from Zurich that included a stop in Geneva in either direction. A group of us took an early morning flight from GVA to ZRH on our way to Oktoberfest in Munich and found it had a lot of rather sleepy passengers who'd boarded in South America. We returned a couple of days later and boarded at ZRH - the rest of the passengers were expecting an overnight slog to Santiago or somewhere like that. Some were visibly concerned when a rather cheerful group boarded; there were many sighs of relief when we got off at Geneva and left them in peace.

@ahmadimranahmad7512 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I once flew on a KLM flight from AMS to JKT with a stop at KUL.

@NikonRaccoon 3 жыл бұрын

I remember flying in the 80s out of San Diego. Usually there was a stop in LAX, Chicago, or DFW, then on to the east coast where you didn't have to get off the plane. Note this is also how a bunch of Southwest flights operate. Same flight number, but bouncing all over the country.

@ant2312 3 жыл бұрын

Yes happened in 2011 to Brisbane from the UK and the intinery said the 2nd flight was Dubai to Brisbane. When I landed at Dubai and went to the gate for my flight number and wondered why it said Singapore, I spoke to a staff member who explained it for me. After arriving I checked my itinery again and in very small print it said "1 stop" for the second leg

@svendtorrild2815 3 жыл бұрын

I Flew Austrian Airlines 001 to Sydney in 2006 that involved a stop in KL and continued as OS001 to Sydney. We had to diswmbark the aircraft in KL as they needed to freshen the cabin. The same for the return OS002

@GreenPartyofMalaysia 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve flown from KUL to LHR.8 was direct from KUL to Moscow with a stop in Tashkent. The connect flight from Moscow to LHR was non-stop. The carrier was Aeroflot.

@zooz1313 3 жыл бұрын

I flew with Lufthansa in 2009 from Frankfurt to Jeddah with a stop in Addis Ababa.

@nev7751 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@denisb1098 3 жыл бұрын

I was 17 I think, around 1992, when I flew to Lima from Rome with Alitalia and didn't realise we'd stop in Caracas on the way. Tropical Caracas looked amazing and exotic from the plane, while landing in Austral winter in dusty cloudy Lima was very depressing (Lima turned out to be great though!). Cathay has/had 'direct' flights from HKG to Tokyo that stop in Taipei, and 'direct' flights to NYC that stop in Vancouver.

@jackherstam7935 3 жыл бұрын

1:56 Regarding operations from Ethiopia, it's actually the exact opposite of what the video mentions. A takeoff from a high altitude airport like Addis will burn LESS fuel for multiple reasons. The air is less dense, therefore less fuel is mixed and ignited with the lower volume of air. The climb is also reduced by an exponential factor, because the plane isn't departing from sea level at a high weight/drag configuration--it's starting its climb from 7k feet and never climbs through the densest parts of the atmosphere. But because the air is less dense, the aircraft cannot produce as much thrust nor the wings as much lift as it could at sea level, so it necessarily cannot carry the requisite fuel for a non-stop 14 hour flight. The maximum takeoff weight is significantly reduced.

@MartinCHorowitz 3 жыл бұрын

I Flew LAX to Auckland on what was booked as a nonstop flight, but an aircraft substitution turned it into a direct flight with a refueling Stop in Tahiti. The Airport was well setup for this, we got off the plane (Luggage stayed onboard) and had a botanical Garden to tour, re-boarded and continued.

@shero113 3 жыл бұрын

BA01 used to stop in Shannon en route from LCY to New Amsterdam, or whatever it's now called ;)

@ashleyw1393 3 жыл бұрын

It did. But for a different reason. The stop also made the flight to the US a domestic flight so no passport control or customs on arrival.

@shero113 3 жыл бұрын

@@ashleyw1393 BA01 stopped for fuel, as it had to take-off light from LCY. So, yes, and no. It was a refuelling stop, as other, but, different too, as it was due to a short runway, etc.

@ashleyw1393 3 жыл бұрын

@@shero113 yes the short runway meant a refueling stop was needed. But the main selling point of the flight was that it landed in New York as a doe surf flight as passengers cleared us customs and immigration during that stop.

@masterofthebruh7916 3 жыл бұрын

way before covid, there was a Saudia light from AUH to JED and stops at MED. it barely stopped for 20 mins. we were up in the air bound for Jeddah in no time. landing and taking off from Madinah was actually a quite interesting thing. it has a beautiful mountaneous approach. even though i never got off the aircraft.

@jimmeade2976 3 жыл бұрын

Several years ago I booked a DIRECT Cathay Pacific Flight from Toronto to Hong Kong. To my surprise, we stopped in Vancouver for fuel and to pick up additional passengers.

@alexanderhall4281 3 жыл бұрын

Once we took a flight to Wyoming o think it was then a smaller plane to our destination. I'll never forget it, because the floor was shuddering and I had to lift my feet up the whole flight.

@mamiruddeen 3 жыл бұрын

Colombo (Sri Lanka) to Dubai (UAE) Flight Emirates EK653 is a direct flight with a stop in Male, Maldives (in the opposite direction EK652 originates in Dubai and stops in Male on the way to Colombo). EK348 / EK349 between Dubai and Singapore via Colombo. I have only been on these flights, however, I notice that Emirates has several Direct Flight that are not Non-Stop Flights. Other examples are flights from Dubai to Australia/New Zealand via Kuala Lumpur and/or Singapore and/or Bangkok, Dubai to New York JFK via Milan, Dubai to Newark via Athens. Emirates also flies Non-Stop on most of these routes, although I think nowadays the mainly the Non-Stop Flights are operating due to the effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on global travel.

@artonieminen1873 3 жыл бұрын

In old days flying was more waiting. In 70th I had a flight with Pan Am HKG-BKK-DEL-THR-ATH-FRA. Sometimes all pax had to go to terminal and sometimes pax were allowed to stay o/b. Flights from/to HKG had always stops in the middle of the night in India or Pakistan. Grazy times. Now you can sleep whole leg.

@johnp139 3 жыл бұрын

I had just the opposite, a trip with a connection in STL, but when I got off the first flight and checked my outgoing gate, it was the same gate (and aircraft) that I arrived at, but with a different flight number.

@travissanchez4305 3 жыл бұрын

LAX to BNE, or MLL/MEL, or SYD. Boeing 747 flown by either Air New Zealand and I think also Qantas once where the flight made a “pit stop” in Auckland before carrying on to Australia or LAX. Back in the 90’s, maybe once in 2000, really can’t remember. I always liked the stopovers though. Gave me a chance to explore an airport.

@boxertraining 11 ай бұрын

For direct flight will you be getting 2 plane tickets when plane make 1 stop I'm be booking first class or business for my child and me

@owenchuarbx 3 жыл бұрын

I had traveled on BA15 in 2016 from London to Singapore (it's heading to Sydney). Usually made up of 777-300ERs. BA12 is the opposite direction but mainly on A380s. But I could be very wrong as both types may ply on either flight number.

@ashleyw1393 3 жыл бұрын

Pre Covid BA had two flights LHR to SIN one BA15/16) was a 77W and the other (BA11/12) an A380. The 777W continued to Sydney the A380 turned around in Singapore and returned later the same night.

@ninjaz5736 3 жыл бұрын

When trying to refund a friend's ticket, it confused me for a good while that the outgoing and the return leg had (partially) the same flight number. Turns out it was a 3 sector journey that stopped on 2 islands before heading back to DXB, but used the same flight number so that you could get on and off anywhere. Working in an airport (at the time) where we only dealt with non-stop flight numbers (for non-connecting/-codeshare/-interline flights anyway), it was an eye-opener and made me notice that flight number whenever it came up as an onward in the system.

@chrislohphotography 3 жыл бұрын

Booked a flight from Nairobi to Harare. Was surprised when we first stopped over in Lusaka.

@claymag9803 3 жыл бұрын

In the early 2000s with AirHolland's 757 from Amsterdam to Fortaleza (Brazil) stopping for refueling in the Canary Islands (I think it was Tenerife, not sure though). We had to leave the aircraft, bringing our carry-on with us, during refueling and had to stay in a separated area in the terminal.

@neilvann2670 3 жыл бұрын

Had it a few times, but the one I particularly recall was a flight with Aerolineas Argentinas from Madrid to Buenos Aries. Half way through the flight they announced that we'd be stopping at San Jose as fuel was low. No one got on or off the plane at San Jose. Still reckon it was because fuel in Brazil's a sight cheaper than in Spain and they were deliberately taking advantage of that.

@ChrisJones-ru9yx 3 жыл бұрын

US airlines used to be notorious for using the same flight number, but have a change of aircraft. It was not uncommon. for example for United to sell a Seattle to Europe ticket as a direct flight using the same flight number all the way through to Frankfurt, for example. However, despite having the same flight number there would be a change of aircraft in Chicago (typically from a narrowbody to a widebody). This allowed United to show the flight on a global distribution system higher on the light of available flights than a connecting flight with two different flight numbers. I always found this to be deceptive, as an A320 or 757 would not make a trip from Chicago to Frankfurt. United wasn't the only airline doing this.

@BIGTIMESKELLS 3 жыл бұрын

AC855 always used to be a direct LHR-YVR but on some days they stated doing a stop in Toronto 🇨🇦

@ashleyw1393 3 жыл бұрын

Best one every was the Qatar airlines flight Doha to Canberra via Sydney. What made it special was Sydney to Canberra is a 30 minute flight on a 777-300ER and later an A350-1000 with usually no more than 40 pax on board.

@lorisgraf8804 3 жыл бұрын

Takeoff from Addis Ababa doesn't require more fuel, but due to the high altitude they can't accelerate as quickly therefore they cannot take off with full fuel and pax load.

@harsh0730 Жыл бұрын

Which one is cheaper option?

@tawtsai 3 жыл бұрын

Been on one unexpectedly before due to the mixed up of terminologies - but in reverse (booked a non-stop, but thought it was going to be a direct flight)! China Airlines used to operate direct flights from Taipei to New York's JFK, with a stop at Anchorage, Alaska; that's what I was expecting after flying it many times. So imagine my surprise when we flew non-stop from Taipei to JFK, when I was expecting a shorter flight and to be able to stretch my legs on the ground at the airport in Alaska!

@bishwatntl 3 жыл бұрын

I caught direct flights from the UK to cities in the USA a couple of times that had intermediate stops. One (a British Caledonian flight) had an intermediate stop in St Louis, where through passengers to Dallas stayed on board. The other (a United flight) was billed as a direct service from London Heathrow to Denver, but we all had to get off, go through immigration, pick up our bags and go through customs at Washington Dulles and then transfer to a different terminal to pick up the same plane and flight number onwards to Denver. It turned out that BCal had no rights to carriage inside the US, while United sold seats on the second sector as an internal flight from Dulles. We had to check in a second time and this meant that the international passengers didn't even get the same seats on the second leg. In that case, it would have been more honest to sell the United flight as a connecting service.

@snaddondavid 3 жыл бұрын

High altitude take off burns that much more fuel? Is it not more of a fuel weight limit due to hot and high take off?

@anr.bru_spotter 3 жыл бұрын

I ones had a flight from Heraklion to Liege but there was a stop in Rhodes I didn't know that until I was at the airport.

@Calebs_Aviation 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I accidentally booked a direct flight that I thought was a nonstop flight between my home in Detroit MI to Orlando FL (DTW-MCO) with Delta Airlines, the flight actually stopped in Delta’s super hub in Atlanta GA (DTW-ATL-MCO) although for this self proclaimed avgeek stopping in ATL and staying on board the Boeing 757-300 was awesome! 😎😆👍

@operationcwaI789789 3 жыл бұрын

I booked a direct flight once thinking it was non stop. It stopped along the way before reaching destination. True story.

@PadisherCreel 3 жыл бұрын

KLM Amsterdam to Bali has a stop in Singapore, where the crew is changed and the plane cleaned and refuelled. The new crew fly Singapore to Bali and back immediately to Singapore where a new crew take over to fly back to Amsterdam. All passengers who do the complete flight rather than leaving in Singapore must get out (taking hand luggage) and go through security without leaving the gate area, before getting back on board an hour or so later

@365alby5 3 жыл бұрын

have been to a direct flight from surabaya to taipei via singapore in china airlines but sadly the flight stopped operating

@wtspman 3 жыл бұрын

Back in the mid-80s I joined a direct flight to Sydney in Perth. The flight originated in Harare and was a code-share between Quantas and Zimbabwe Airlines. In 2001 I flew on a direct flight from Indianapolis to Seattle on American Airlines. When I booked the flight I had no idea that it was routed through Dallas.

@ChrisJones-ru9yx 3 жыл бұрын

yuk. IND-DFW-SEA? That'll learn you to read the details first.

@wtspman 3 жыл бұрын

I remember choosing it because the other options all involved stops with lay-overs. I learned real quick from the experience.

@cameroneadie9938 3 жыл бұрын

Air Transat fly Glasgow -> Toronto via Manchester. We took off and had landed again within 35 minutes

@charleslemos7972 3 жыл бұрын

I flew the old Pan Am 001 on United which abridged the route. San Francisco - London - Delhi - Hong Kong - San Francisco. In my itinerary I flew direct to Delhi, spent three weeks in India flew non stop to Hong Kong spending three days in Hong Kong before flying nonstop to San Francisco. Pan Am 001 was a much longer route San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong - Bangkok - Delhi - Beirut - Istanbul- Frankfurt - London - New York. Pan Am 002 flew the route eastward beginning in New York.

@Mmaulin12 3 жыл бұрын

I was on a CCU-PNQ direct flight with a stop in NAG

@gerardmoran9560 3 жыл бұрын

Simple Flying- takeoffs at high elevation airports don't use more fuel as you stated. High elevation takeoffs have less thrust available reducing performance. Planners must reduce weight by limiting fuel, cargo, passengers or a combination of the above.

@seanhanlon1367 3 жыл бұрын

Worked for an airline that operated a “direct”flight (we called a through flight) from our station on east coast US to Seattle flight would have same flight number but would often, though not always, change planes. People were very confused and sometimes angry when they would be handed 2 tickets and informed about their connection. Never understood the concept myself but whatever brings the money in I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

@chadnga8 3 жыл бұрын

I can't think of any direct flights I've been on... having a hometown airport and airline (ATL & Delta) makes it super easy to book non-stop flights. I've only had a connecting flight when flying as a non-rev on an airline that didn't offer flights between 2 cities in their routes (like a flight north to a hub to fly south)... but when you're flying for free, who wouldn't lol .

@JAldrich73 3 жыл бұрын

I travelled a direct flight once on Delta Air Lines. They had a Flight 41 which was marketed as ATL-SYD. It had a stop at LAX. The flight from ATL to LAX was on a 737. When we got to LAX, we had to change planes to get on a 777 from LAX to SYD. It was still flight 41!

@alexjames9495 3 жыл бұрын

Cathay Hong Kong to Brisbane with a secret stop in Cairns

@davidbeckenbaugh9598 3 жыл бұрын

When I worked for +++++++++ Airlines, we had a 'direct' flight that changed airplanes, but not flight numbers. Got a lot of customers ticked off.............

@deanking5674 3 жыл бұрын

I had a direct flight from Stansted to Ercan, N Cyprus. Had to stop in Turkey as northern Cyprus only allowed domestic flights. Stayed on board, immigration come on board check passports then the domestic passengers board.

@kaxrimm 3 жыл бұрын

i booked a flight before the gulf crises was not mad any more i booked a flight form egypt to kuwait tranizt for 2-3 hour then to doha,suprisgly when i was in kawait we boared the the same brife that we depored when i was coming from egypt and it was the same gate and plane as weel so i dont is that a direct flight or non0stop

@user-fr3hy9uh6y 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I had a direct flight that required a change in aircraft. Had to go to a different terminal and wait for boarding. Couldn't understand how they could advertise it as direct. Now I do, it had the same flight number.

@letsseeif 3 жыл бұрын

As an Aussie, I'm used to DIRECT FLIGHTS with several stops. (recently this is starting to changing as ULR ETOPS Type's ranges gets ever longer and DIRECT becomes 'normal'.) Even Australia Domestics had/has these if the aircraft is/was not capable of doing it without 'diversion' fuel.

@adamrameli1990 3 жыл бұрын

Cool

@ashleyw1393 3 жыл бұрын

Another good direct flight (pee COVID) was Singapore Airlines flight SQ288 from Singapore to Singapore. It took roughly 20 hours and went via Sydney and Canberra. This is the only flight that I can think of that returned to its origin without changing flight number. Presumably there are others.

@Sacto1654 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder has any of the ME3 carriers talked about doing a direct flight from London to Sydney? Essentially, one flight number from London through the Middle East fuel stop all the way to Sydney?

@spongebubatz 3 жыл бұрын

Rather not as they fly through their hub, such flights are rarely direct flights and there isn’t really a reason for them to commence such flights

@YamaguchiTada 3 жыл бұрын

The Emirates DXB-BCN-MEX MEX-BCN-DXB and the Turkish MEX-CUN-IST are direct flights?

@spongebubatz 3 жыл бұрын

Not if they aren’t flown by the same aircraft or the same flight number. Flights through hubs are generally no direct flights. But if an airline flies from their hub to City A and continues from there to City B, that’s a direct flight from the Hub to City B with a stop in City A

@jeanbossy6950 3 жыл бұрын

In 2006, i flew Air transat direct charter flight from Paris to Montreal but the aircraft stopped in Gander to load equipment or large parcel, as seen from my window. Every body stayed inside the aircraft. This stop was not told to passengers before take off. Its in flight announcement created some degree of surprised on board as it created a 45 minutes arrival delay to Montreal. It appeared to be a last minute contract to make extra profit at the expenses of passenger's time schedule and connections. All direct flight should be planned in advance and clearly written on passengers tickets as well as before buying the ticket. I requested Air transat financial compensation for unexpected loss of time combined with lack of respect toward a customer, with no success!

@nurrizadjatmiko21 3 жыл бұрын

Another perfect video today

@TheSheiban 3 жыл бұрын

I flew on a non-stop flight which became direct because the load was too heavy to make it there safely. I guess the airline anticipated that they wouldn't sell as many tickets for that time of year so they had a smaller aircraft...

@christopherhennessey8991 3 жыл бұрын

I remember flying Eastern 87 ,an L 1011, MIA-ATL-LAX.

@ByWire-yk8eh Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure why the media generally renames non-stop flights and calls them direct. I guess it's simpler to say. I used to fly Allegheny Airlines DC-9's direct from Pittsburgh to Providence with a stops in Philadelphia and Hartford. The last direct flight with a stop I flew was from New York to Austin, TX with a stop in Dallas. It's hard for us humans to verbally communicate with each other without changing the definition of the words all the time. All non-stop flights are direct, but not all direct flights are non-stop. Like, all squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are squares.