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Lufthansa sues passenger who skipped his flight
A method commonly used by airline passengers to get cheaper fares is at the center of a court row between a German airline and one of its customers.
Lufthansa has taken a passenger, who didn't show up for the last leg of his ticketed journey, to court in an apparent bid to clamp down on "hidden city" ticketing. The practice involves passengers leaving their journey at a layover point, instead of making a final connection.
For instance, someone flying from New York to San Francisco could book a cheaper trip from New York to Lake Tahoe with a layover in San Francisco and get off there, without bothering to take the last leg of the flight.
The unnamed passenger skipped a flight from Frankfurt to Oslo and flew using a separate Lufthansa reservation from Frankfurt to Berlin instead. Lufthansa is calling this a violation of their terms and conditions and has sued the passenger for €2,112 ($2,386).
This method does not work if you have checked bags, and other people have reported retaliation from airlines for the practice.
Also at Fortune and Popular Mechanics.
See also: Airlines hate 'hidden city ticketing,' but it's still one of the best ways to save a ton on your flights — if you know how to do it
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @04:16AM (3 children)
What a lot of posters here are missing is that the airlines don't just get to make up their routes. They get to apply for their routes, and governments get to tell them which routes they have to take, and which are optional, and which are not available for them.
And they have to suck it up.
This means that they get to fly a lot of unprofitable , unpopular routes regardless of what the economics of the situation would be. The pricing for those routes is different from the pricing on the popular routes because of simple supply and demand.
I'm not saying that they're saints; they're not. But if you're looking for the justification for their weird and counterintuitive behaviour, you don't have to look further than government regulations.
They're in almost as bad a position as brewers in the USA, who pretty much have to go to the feds, cap in hand, for permission to put a product on the market every single time.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:33AM (1 child)
dumb shill.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 14 2019, @07:00AM
downmodding an AC, how clever.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday February 14 2019, @06:12PM
The fuck-up in the US are the obligatory and entirely arbitrary 3-tier distribution laws, which basically forbids producers from selling to consumers. That's exactly the opposite of encouraging a free market. Fortunately a few cases have punched through that set-up and been justified by the courts.
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