What I learned today

I haven't blogged about this yet... but i transferred work (again). My work is now related to the airlines business. I love to travel, but I am definitely learning a lot from this new work. Among them:

Define: Direct Flight
Definitions of Direct Flight on the Web:

A flight on which passengers do not have to change planes, but may involve one more stops enroute.
www.flyfromcanada.com/travel-terms.html

This is a tricky one. The term "direct flight" can actually be applied to any routing that maintains the same flight number throughout the entire course of the routing, even if the routing contains enroute stops or requires a change of airplane. Strange but true.
www.flyertalk.com/glossary/

Definition: A flight that stops at another airport, but passengers do not change planes. An example of a direct flight is a passenger taking a direct flight from Boston to Dublin . ...
mayfee1.tripod.com/safejurnee/id28.html

A flight which requires no change of plane from departure to destination, though the plane may make intermediate stops.
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a flight with one or more intermediate stops but no change of aircraft
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

A direct flight in the aviation industry is any flight between two points by an airline with no change in flight numbers or aircraft. Some sources consider a change in aircraft at the stop to also be a direct flight. A direct flight does not mean you can stay on the aircraft at any stops. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct flight

A flight in which the passenger makes intermediate stops but does not change aircraft; A flight where the bird's altitude does not change significantly with each wing beat
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/direct flight

I never know that you could make "stops" on a direct flight. Strange but true.