Foreign Travel?

[WinterDeere]

I still prefer direct flights

I've done both. If you can work a day or two in on a stop, then it's not a bad way to go. We worked out an evening and dinner in Dublin Ireland on our way home from continental Europe last summer, which was fun. There's nothing like actually stopping in on Ireland for your Guiness and Shepherd's Pie, or flying to Italy for your gnocchi.

But stops for the sake of stops, just sitting in some foreign airport, is a pointless waste of time and frustration. And that's why the whole "jumbo jet" model has mostly died over the last 30 years. No one wants to take a regional jet to a hub, just to hop on a 747 for a long-haul flight, to another regional hub. Much nicer to just go direct on a 737 or 757... assuming they don't fall apart in the sky.

I did have the pleasure of a few transatlantic flights on the 787 Dreamliner this past summer... nice!

 

[kenmbz]

Going to Japan and doing a stopover in Singapore for a few days is fun.
Going to South Africa I always flew direct, though on the way back there is a refueling stop on some tiny island off the west coast of Africa.
If I am going to someplace specific, sometimes I will fly into a different country to tour around a bit and then do a car or train to get to my real destination.