forgive my ignorance, but is there something wrong with that? It’s something I’ve considered doing in the past.
He should launch an antitrust lawsuit.
Airlines practice various forms of price discrimination and have for years.
I give up. Why is it illegal?
BS... This has been done for decades...
About 10 years ago, a Canadian comedian had a piece on flying from say Montreal to Vancouver. It was cheaper to take a bus to the nears US airport, fly to the nearest US airport to Vancouver, and take a bus from there, and still have plenty left over to buy beer.
Stupid airline move. First, very bad publicity. Second, they will probably be laughed out of court after paying some lawyers between six to seven figure $’s for the effort. The kid apparently just found and exploited a loophole the airline itself left open. They should fire the bozos who missed that loophole and hire this kid before another airline has a chance to. He is evidently smarter and knows their systems better than they do.
Hell, I’d sell the second leg of the flight.
Several years ago I needed to meet Mrs Submareener in Dallas. One way from Tucson to DFW was more expensive than a round trip so I booked a RT and skipped the return.
Airlines charge more for New York to San Francisco than New York to San Francisco to Lake Tahoe?
Many years ago, we had a regional VP who would fly out of Dallas, OFTEN used this trick to save loads on airfare, having his travel agent figure out the routes he needed.
If the airline is getting their full fare up front, what do they care if somebody jumps off early?
Geez. We figured that one out a long time ago. Just didn’t create a web site to do it.
SLAP suit
This is a well known technique in the industry. I’ve used it a few times myself. Need to book a flight to LA? Book it to San Fran and get off in LA.
As a traveling consultant in the mid 90s I used to book trips that overlapped with a Saturday night stay to save a lot of money. I would book a 2 week roundtrip Houston to Louisville ticket and the a weekend roundtrip Louisville to Houston in the middle of the other one. The Saturday night stay was put in place to gouge business travelers and after a while they had to drop the practice because too many people were doing what I did.
A 747 can’t land in Lake Tahoe.
Should read:
A 747 can’t land at Lake Tahoe.
No way that runway can accept a plane that large..
I am pretty sure this has been against airline policy for many years and possibly illegal. But as long as airline’s do their most to make air travel miserable I write “good for him”!
When booking room online at a major hotel (Marriott, Hilton), use "IBM" or "Xerox" as company promo code and you usually get about 20% off the room rate. Large corporations have special deals like this for their business travelers.
So long as you look like a business traveler at check-in (not a good idea to have beach gear with a couple kids in tow), they never ask you to prove you actually work there.