In a message dated 8/11/2003 11:25:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time, iancaldwell@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << I think one thing that I would consider paying extra for would be a direct flight or a single stop through a hub on the longer routes. Southwest has a lot of 2 and 3 stops on some routes. >> Have you seen how many non-stops WN has now? Pretty much all of their main cities (LAX, LAS, BWI, MDW, PHX, OAK) have non-stops to eachother and other large cities (MDW-SAN, PHX-STL)