So Southwest can overlay its Chicago-to-Las Vegas-to-Los Angeles route with a nonstop flight and the revenue is almost entirely incremental.

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Raleigh-Durham has always taken pride in having a nonstop flight to London, the North Carolina airport's only direct flight outside North America.

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Choosing a nonstop flight may help you avoid some delays since you'll have one fewer airport to deal with, she adds, though the airfare may be higher than for one with a connecting flight.

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Leila Bulling Towne, an executive management coach, was happy to be on a nonstop flight home from a business meeting in Austin and liked the RJ practice of checking and retrieving carry-on bags at the jet-bridge, since regular roll-aboard bags don't fit in purse-sized overhead bins.

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On the holiday weekend that closed out the summer of 1940, Lindbergh came nowhere near besting the record time for a coast-to-coast nonstop flight that he'd himself set a decade back with an aircraft more advanced than the old Spirit of St.

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Singapore said it charges, on average, about a 20% premium for the nonstop flight over one-stop trips.

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The completion of his thirtythree-and-a-half-hour nonstop solo flight from Long Island to Paris in the tiny monoplane the Spirit of St.

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Coach usually requires only a drink service, while flight attendants in the other cabins work almost nonstop serving meals and drinks.

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And since the only nonstop route from Beijing to the U.S. on an American carrier was a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit, Henry Ford was chosen to receive the celebrated patient.

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