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United, Orbitz sue man publicizing loophole to get cheaper airfares
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:45 am
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:45 am
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United Airlines Inc. and Orbitz Worldwide LLC sued to prevent the travel website Skiplagged.com from helping consumers buy what the companies call improper “hidden city” plane tickets that undercut their sales.
Skiplagged helps travelers find cheap airfares by enabling them to book multistop flights and deplane before the flights reach their as-booked final destination. Sometimes a fare that travels through a hub city to another location can be cheaper than a ticket to the hub city alone.
“In its simplest form, a passenger purchases a ticket from city A to city B to city C but does not travel beyond city B,” according to the companies’ complaint. “‘Hidden City’ ticketing is strictly prohibited by most commercial airlines because of logistical and public-safety concerns.”
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Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:47 am to RedRifle
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“‘Hidden City’ ticketing is strictly prohibited by most commercial airlines because of logistical and public-safety concerns.”
bullshite
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:47 am to RedRifle
it's not really a good loophole since the rest of your flight is cancelled. I guess if you just buy one way tickets, it works
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:47 am to RedRifle
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public-safety concerns
How does this affect the public's safety exactly?
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:47 am to TH03
quote:that's what the website does I think
I guess if you just buy one way tickets, it works
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:50 am to TH03
yea you'd have to do it by buying one way tickets
I wonder what the courts will say
I wonder what the courts will say
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:51 am to gjackx
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Orbitz, an online travel booking site, and United said neither of them gave Zaman permission to engage in hidden-city ticketing. Claiming he’s unfairly competing against them and implying he’s connected to United and Orbitz by linking customers to their websites, they’re seeking a court order halting the conduct.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:56 am to RedRifle
When the wife was living in Houston still we were looking to go to Montana... my flight from Baton Rouge to Houston to Denver to Montana than her getting the exact same flights from Houston to Denver to Montana.
Didn't make much sense. It was cheaper for me to have an extra leg.
Didn't make much sense. It was cheaper for me to have an extra leg.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:57 am to RedRifle
Total BS
Posted on 12/30/14 at 9:57 am to gjackx
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How does this affect the public's safety exactly?
You sit beside someone on a flight from A to C, with a stop in B...
That passenger does not get back on when you arrive in B and are ready to head to C..
Do you freak out or just roll with it
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:00 am to RedRifle
or maybe the airlines could just adjust their prices 
I have several co-workers that will find flights that stop over in Odessa and just get off there. It has gotten so ridiculously expensive for flights from Houston to Odessa that this is the best way to do it sometimes.
I have several co-workers that will find flights that stop over in Odessa and just get off there. It has gotten so ridiculously expensive for flights from Houston to Odessa that this is the best way to do it sometimes.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:00 am to GrammarKnotsi
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You sit beside someone on a flight from A to C, with a stop in B...
That passenger does not get back on when you arrive in B and are ready to head to C..
Do you freak out or just roll with it
I assume they were supposed to get off at stop B.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:00 am to RedRifle
I can see airlines potentially having issues with this. If a passenger is supposed to fly A to B to C, but never boards for B to C, then the airline is stuck trying to figure out where this person went. Airlines tend to wait for/try to find people who have already checked in.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:02 am to RedRifle
I see a counter suit against United for unfair ticket price gouging in the near future with the facts of this case being the bases for the claim.
It's right there in black and white and they go after this guy for cluing you in about how they are fricking you. Get real.
It's right there in black and white and they go after this guy for cluing you in about how they are fricking you. Get real.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:03 am to RedRifle
bad website
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:03 am to RedRifle
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:04 am to LSUBoo
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I assume they were supposed to get off at stop B.
Potatoes..
I think to myself..What does he know about this next leg, that he didn't want to be on the plane...
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:05 am to Clyde Tipton
Yeah, Skiplagged wouldn't exist without these crazy prices. United just doesn't like seeing the tables turned on them.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:06 am to CheerWhine
I hate united with the heat of a 1000 packs of screaming hemorrhoids.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 10:07 am to Downtown Devin Brown
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Airlines tend to wait for/try to find people who have already checked in.
Or they can just leave when they're supposed to and let the passenger be responsible for arriving on time. Stop holding up my flight because the McCallister family didn't leave their home in the suburbs an hour earlier.
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