United Airlines suing 22-year-old computer whiz

NY POST ^ | December 30, 2014 | 1:23pm | By Yaron Steinbuch

[MeganC]

It’s just a lawsuit to try to intimidate this guy and now both United and Orbitz are going to suffer The Streisand Effect.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This pops up every once in a while. You don’t have to be a “computer whiz” to spot the cheap layover flights and book one yourself. Technically it is illegal to not get on the second leg of the flight. Come and get me coppers!

[TurboZamboni]

I wonder when gubmint will try to make it illegal not to graduate college once you start.

[Reno89519]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3242090/posts

[Labyrinthos]

Technically it is illegal to not get on the second leg of the flight. Come and get me coppers!

I don't think the practice is illegal per se, rather it violates the airline's "contract of carriage" that is incorporated into every ticket.

[SamAdams76]

Forgive me for the macabre thought but if you booked such a flight, got off after the first leg, then on the second leg, the plane "blew up" and went down with no survivors, that would be one hell of an easy way to "disappear" as your name would be on the manifest and you'd be presumed dead.

Maybe that's why airlines forbid the practice - they are concerned that somebody might actually try to pull something like that off on purpose.

[TexasGator]

” You don’t have to be a “computer whiz” to spot the cheap layover flights and book one yourself. “

But it helps to be one to set up a website that does the search for you.

[Red Badger]

That is true, but your body would not be recovered...............so it would have to be a transoceanic flight. Not many layovers in the mid ocean.........until recently...........

[Scooter100]

Even more hacking “news”. Wait for it, the simpletons in control are after the freedom of the net. They can’t handle criticism from “the great unwashed” in any form whatsoever.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wouldn’t the failure of the passenger to reboard be noted at the gate?

[FatherofFive]

Forgive me for the macabre thought but if you booked such a flight, got off after the first leg, then on the second leg, the plane "blew up" and went down with no survivors, that would be one hell of an easy way to "disappear" as your name would be on the manifest and you'd be presumed dead.

Methinks there are many easier ways to 'disappear' and be presumed dead.

[Red Badger]

Not really a ‘hack’, just a smart kid...............and they don’t like it...............

[SamAdams76]

Not everybody de-boards during layovers. I don’t believe they keep track of those who do.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yes, people could stay on the plane. However whenever I have been in a layover I’ve seen them doing a seat count. If someone’s missing they ask around.

[scrabblehack]

At the same time, what if you had a premonition the plane was going to blow up? Should the law force you to get on the plane?

[MMaschin]

I grew up in Cincinnati, and until Delta merged with Northwest, Cincinnati was a major hub for Delta. Because it was a hub, the flights in and out were outrageously expensive. Flights in and out of hubs are expensive, because they already have those flights full with people making connections, so they don't really need your business.

There are a number of airports within about an hour to an hour and a half of Cincinnati - Dayton, Indianapolis, Columbus, Louisville, and Lexington. I almost never used Cincinnati as a destination. You can use round trip tickets, you just need to have someone drop you off at the airport you are flying out of.

[John S Mosby]

On every flight the manifest is checked against checked in living souls by name and reservation/ticket. So, no— if you don’t get on you are not ON the flight to be found “dead” or missing if said flight crashed.

Simple police work would find this out, btw. Like in insurance cases for death benefit.

[glorgau]

Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome

[Larry Lucido]

Yes! It’s obviously your destiny.

Wasn’t there a movie about that?