connecting flight

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   a flight with an intermediate stop and a change of aircraft (possibly a change of airlines)

   Broaderflight

Questions about connecting flight

What does connecting flight mean?

connecting flight means "a flight with an intermediate stop and a change of aircraft (possibly a change of airlines)".

Is connecting flight a common word?

connecting flight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.