Story and photos by Bob Schulman
You booked a flight to London with a stop at a big hub terminal (let’s say, New York-JFK) along the way. Both hops have the same flight number, so it must be a “direct” flight – meaning it’s the same plane all the way, even though it stops once. Right? Not necessarily. Read the small print. It could be what the airlines call a “change of gauge” – meaning at that stop you’ll have to get off one plane and on another one.