With 1 stop no plane change, does that mean everyone on that plane stays on the plane?

Maybe it needs to be refueled? Or maybe people are getting on?

How long a layover?

Yes unless the stop is the final destination for some.

It’s 1 stop no plane change for you because you are going the same place the plane is going. Not everyone will be. Some people will get off, some people will remain.

If everyone was going to the same spot the plane wouldn’t stop. Unless you’re flying like the whole way around the globe.

It depends. Sometimes, on some short-hop commuter planes that I’ve ridden, those who are continuing stay aboard and new passengers (if any) board as soon as those who are leaving have gotten off. It’s a bang-bang quick operation.

On the other hand, I’ve ridden on international flights that do more or less the same thing, and we all get off the plane and (even though we technically avoid Immigration and do avoid Customs), passports are examined and we’re seated in an International Boarding lounge with nothing but the gate and an armed and guarded emergency exit, for up to an hour.

I would call the airline and ask them what to expect. (Of course, if you see from the itinerary that the scheduled landing at the way point is at 3:05 PM with a takeoff at 3:15 PM then you can assume that you all stay on the plane if you’re a through passenger.)

The plane can stop for many reasons: freight or mail delivery, to pick up passengers (whether or not they have shown up at the airport, the pilot in-flight won’t know), as a condition of the airport franchise and to maintain rights to the gate at the airport, for service or fueling of the plane (maybe even victualing) or for the crew to change. There can be lots of non-passenger related reasons to land at an airport.

It means that people going on to the final destination just stay on the plane. They don’t have to change planes.

People going to the interim destination get off, and new additional people get on.

It’s usually an option. You don;t have to get off if you don’t want to, but you’re allowed to.

Too many situations where this can happen – probably every day several times a day. The plane starts out at an airport in the morning and keeps flying, refueling when necessary. It is conceivable that someone would want to go from the departure to last destination, but nearly every stop people would be getting off and others get on. . . .

No plane change for you, but probably not everyone if it is a regular commercial fight. You just happen to be direct to your destination with one stop. Last time this happened to me, everyone had to get off the plane anyway, maybe it was a post 9/11 change? Not sure. It might have been just that airline, not sure. Back in the day we used to just stay on the plane.

What airline is it? Most airlines use a hub system, so the majority of their flights go through their hubs. Delta has hubs in Atlanta, Detroit, Memphis, Salt Lake and Minneapolis. American hubs in Dallas, Miami, and Chicago. Frontier hubs in Denver, Air Tran in Atlanta, etc.

@JLeslie It’s Southwest.

Oh, southwest. They don’t really have hubs like other airlines. They have tons of short legs all over the country. Definitely some people will be getting off the plane when you make the first stop, probably most of the people will.