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While the layover and stopover sound the same, it can pay off to know the difference if you want to extract added value from your miles. This story was originally published on Aug. 18, 2015.
A layover for mass transit is a scheduled downtime for the vehicle and driver between terminal-to-terminal trips. [4] This short period of recovery time built into the schedule is generally used for one or more of the following reasons: recover from delays, provide breaks for the driver, and/or allow time for a driver change.
A stopover, or layover, is a break in a journey. Stopover may also refer to: Stopover, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community; The Stopover, a 2016 French film "Stopover" (The Professionals), an episode of the television series
What's the difference between a layover and a stopover? Or between direct and nonstop flights? Here's what travelers need to know before they book.
In transportation, dwell time or terminal dwell time refers to the time a vehicle such as a public transit bus or train spends at a scheduled stop without moving. [1] Typically, this time is spent boarding or deboarding passengers and baggage, but it may also be spent waiting for traffic ahead to clear, trying to merge into parallel traffic, or ...
Stopovers with Copa Airlines: Copa’s stopover program gives passengers in transit the option to extend a layover in Panama City for up to seven days. And of note, while most of these stopover ...
A light rail transit (LRT) system is an urban rail transit system with a "light" passenger capacity compared to heavy rail and metro systems. Its operating characteristics are that it uses railcars , called light rail vehicles (LRVs), operating singly or in short multiple unit trains on fixed rails in a right-of-way that is not necessarily ...
Diagram of bus lay-by as used in the UK Bus bay in Prague-Radotín, Czech Republic. A bus turnout, bus pullout, bus bay, bus lay-by (UK), [1] or off-line bus stop is a designated spot on the side of a road where buses or trams may pull out of the flow of traffic to pick up and drop off passengers.