A direct flight is a flight in which the traveler make no other stops. The plane leaves from its point of origin and arrives at the travelers destination making no other stops. A connecting flight...
A connecting flight is where you have to fly to say, San Francisco, CA from Norfolk, VA. Your air carrier may make a stop in Atlanta, GA and you will have to get off your plane onto another plane....
The biggest reason is that it's horribly inefficient for an airline to fly between every possible pair of airports, because it means that if only a few people want to go between those particular...
Now we are past the silly answer, the correct answer is the local flight service station (FSS). You can call them by phone or by radio. For example, the FSS for the area where I live (Phoenix AZ) is...