Thank you Englishal. I will present this to the CFI.
He did actually get a reply from an FAA contact saying the opposite, but the source would not respond in an official capacity, which is odd.
What you have is obviously better.
Whopity - to the extent one can play with words, I would say this could be argued precisely both ways. IMHO most normal people would regard a "flight" as a "journey", especially since a single "flight" cannot possibly have more than one landing.