Indirect flights

Under His Eye

Are there many of these left?


What I mean is a plane that stops en route to collect more passengers/fuel. The same flight number is kept throughout.

goingnowhere

Addis Abba - Dublin - LAX is there, same aircraft throughout

The old mysterious Moscow - Shannon - elsewhere stuff is long gone

Kevski

I flew Dubai-Brisbane-Auckland last year. Same flight number and seat for both flights. Landed in Brisbane, got off for about an hour and then back on to the same plane.

At a rough estimate, I’d say there was less than 100 people on the Brisbane to Auckland leg which was pretty surreal on an A380! The flight only lasted 2.5 hours or so but still included full food and drink service. Cabin crew also came around and told us to feel free to stretch out across one of the (many) empty 4 seat rows!

I believe Emirates also operate similar flights to Auckland via Sydney and Melbourne.

Senecio

Kevski wrote: »

I flew Dubai-Brisbane-Auckland last year. Same flight number and seat for both flights. Landed in Brisbane, got off for about an hour and then back on to the same plane.

At a rough estimate, I’d say there was less than 100 people on the Brisbane to Auckland leg which was pretty surreal on an A380! The flight only lasted 2.5 hours or so but still included full food and drink service. Cabin crew also came around and told us to feel free to stretch out across one of the (many) empty 4 seat rows!

I believe Emirates also operate similar flights to Auckland via Sydney and Melbourne.

No longer available I'm afraid. Emirates introduced direct Dubai-Auckland flights in late 2016 and as of the beginning of this year they cancelled all of the stopovers via Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne. Those flights all terminate now in Australia and return to Dubai.

They still have a 777 that stops over in Singapore to refuel before proceeding on to Dubai (from Brisbane). Its only used a few days a week to supplement the A380 service. The same flight from Dubai to Brisbane goes direct, I guess it because of prevailing winds providing longer range in that direction?

LXFlyer

Don’t they still have Dubai-Bangkok-Sydney-Christchurch?

Plenty of the flights from Europe to parts of Africa and the Caribbean serve multiple destinations.

Air France operate Miami-Port au Prince-Pointe a Pitre and Pointe a Pitre-Fort de France-Cayenne.

Brennus335

Senecio wrote: »

They still have a 777 that stops over in Singapore to refuel before proceeding on to Dubai (from Brisbane). Its only used a few days a week to supplement the A380 service. The same flight from Dubai to Brisbane goes direct, I guess it because of prevailing winds providing longer range in that direction?

Nothing to do with fuel. Its just a scheduled stopover, allowing 2 destinations to be served.
The 777 regularly flew the Dubai-Brisbane-Dubai nonstop route before the 380 took it over.

L1011

United still have some odd hub-hub-spoke single code single plane flights domestically. Some are using the domestic config 777s but many are narrowbody also.

faoiarvok

Under His Eye wrote: »

Are there many of these left?


What I mean is a plane that stops en route to collect more passengers/fuel. The same flight number is kept throughout.

The new Hainan Dublin-Beijing route includes a stop in Edinburgh on two of its four flights a week.

JCX BXC

London City - Shannon - JFK
Kuwait City - Shannon - JFK

Neither take on passengers though.

faoiarvok

Kuwaiti 117 daily Kuwait City - JFK stops in Shannon to clear security and preclearance as the US won’t accept flights directly from Kuwait for security reasons.

The return leg goes direct from JFK - Kuwait

Edit: JCX beat me to it

Duff

Flew LAX > Dublin > Addis Ababa route home from LAX last year. Felt sorry for the ones staying on the plane in Dublin with another 8hr journey ahead of them while we disembarked.

Chris_5339762

Galway - Waterford - Amsterdam for a while.

Never got to go on it though... flying Galway to Waterford would have been fun.

ironclaw

JCX BXC wrote: »

London City - Shannon - JFK
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Random useless trivia but that flight is BA1 and it's entirely business class. You can also pre-clear in Shannon.

JCX BXC

ironclaw wrote: »

Random useless trivia but that flight is BA1 and it's entirely business class. You can also pre-clear in Shannon.

While we're at it, I'll point out that BA1 was a callsign last used for the route when Concorde operated it.

Son of a bitch

Under His Eye wrote: »

Are there many of these left?


What I mean is a plane that stops en route to collect more passengers/fuel. The same flight number is kept throughout.

That IS a direct flight. Just because it stops over, it doesn't mean it's an "in"direct flight. Direct and non-stop are not mutually exclusive.

All non-stop flights, by definition are direct.

However, not all direct flights are non-stop.