United Airlines sues 22-year-old who found way to get cheaper plane tickets
Found on KDVR on Tuesday, 30 December 2014
The idea is that you buy an airline ticket that has a layover at your actual destination. Say you want to fly from New York to San Francisco — you actually book a flight 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.
In the lawsuit, United and Orbitz call Skiplagged “unfair competition” and allege that it is promoting “strictly prohibited” travel. They want to recoup $75,000 in lost revenue from Zaman.
So if it is prohibited, passengers should not be allowed to leave the plane or airport; but since they apparently can, it doesn't seem to be that illegal at all. If they need someone to blame it's the airline companies for offering such flights.