Routing question
A colleague asked me about this and I have no answer so thought i'd ask.
A couple of years ago, he and his partner travelled to Dominica. I'm not sure of the carrier but the flight originated in Bristol and was scheduled to stop in Manchester and then on the Dominica. In Manchester, nobody got off, nobody got on and the flight shortly continued on to the destination. His question was why the short hop to Manchester when there was no pick up or drop off of passengers? Seems daft to put an extra cycle on the aircraft for nothing. There is no doubt a very simple answer but I just can't think of it.