Skiplagging - Anyone Ever Do it?
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here’s how it works: Say if someone wants to fly from Boston to Houston, but the airfare is too high. So they buy a ticket from Boston to Las Vegas with a layover in Houston, because it is cheaper than the direct Boston-to-Houston fare. The passenger disembarks at Houston, leaving an unused portion of the ticket. So they never actually finish the entire journey they booked – but they’ve saved money doing so.
UNQUOTEI have never done it. Too much of a rule follower.
For example, flights from USA --> Thailand usually stop in Tokyo. The flight from US --> Thailand is e.g. USD$1500, and a flight from US --> Tokyo may be USD$2500.
So, you would save a lot of money by making a US --> Thailand ticket and when the plane stops in Tokyo, get off and do not do the last section.
But, in addition to what happen to the kid in the article, I have heard airlines that cancelled a persons frequent flier program access. I have too much status and files to risk that. LOL
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Nope. Used to do back-to-back tickets where if you were working in LA you'd buy a ticket CVG - LAX leaving Monday and coming back the next week on Thursday. Then you'd buy a ticket LAX-CVG on the nearest Thursday, coming back CVG to LAX the following Monday. Both tickets had a Saturday stay so they were really cheap.
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Not done it, but I don’t have as much of a problem with it as I do with the ghost rooms. Fact is that flights are so overbooked that you aren’t really costing someone else a seat on the plane and it isn’t hurting any service workers.
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American Airline sues skiplagging site:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/21/american-airlines-skiplagged-lawsuit/
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There used to be a limit on how far you could fly from Reagan National, Dallas was beyond the limit.
So American had a flight that stopped at Dulles for just a few minutes, a few passengers got off, none got on. I would be booked to get off at Dulles, but if there was a happy hour downtown, I would stay on for the trip to DCA. The flight from IAD to DCA was only a few minutes, the price was the same.
It was legal either way, American didn't care.
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