why can some airlines stop over a country and then continue on another country? Wouldn’t the airline “steal” a share of the passengers from the host country?
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example: KLM goes from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and then it continues to Jakarta.
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As long as the seats are bought and paid for, it doesn’t matter. A flight is a service, like a restaurant; the customer is allowed to choose what restaurant to go to, just like how they can choose what flight/airline they want to take to their destination.
Stopovers and layovers are common because it’s unlikely that every single person’s origin and destination has a flight going directly to/from those places. Let’s say someone is flying from a rural town in the middle of Kansas to Berlin, Germany. There’s no way that the rural Kansas airport will have the facilities to service an international jet capable of flying to Germany; nor would an airline set aside an international jet for this one person. So they might fly from rural Kansas to Chicago O’Hare International Airport, where there are a lot more people who might want to go to Berlin. Then they can pool all those passengers together and put them on an international jet from Chicago to Berlin. The stopover in Chicago hasn’t “stolen” Chicago passengers; it’s part of the system to get that Kansas passenger to Germany.
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