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[quote=Anonymous]OP here -- direct flights aren't impossible, but they have significantly worse schedules (early mornings, overnight flights), fewer options, and are a lot more expensive, which matters when you're buying four tickets. We've flown both direct and connecting with our kids, and find it to have tradeoffs -- on the one hand, at the connecting city you have to get everyone through the airport and onto a new plane, and you might wake them up. On the other hand, they're 3, not 8 months old, so they're not going to sleep the whole time no matter what, and they really hate being confined to their seats (and the airlines mostly won't let them run around in the aisles anymore), so the connecting stop is often a good chance to let them run around a little, especially since so many airports have play areas now. We thought of flying direct as being more something we do for ourselves, because getting the kids and the stuff to the connecting flight is stressful for us, and the connection makes for a longer day.

22:45, thanks for the validation -- I was kind of thinking the most important thing was protecting the nap, too. They normally nap after lunch, so I had been leaning toward the longer flight first on the theory that they might fight sleep when we first get on the plane, and that we could get dinner at the layover.[/quote]

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