Hidden-city ticketing means booking a flight beyond the intended destination and getting off at the connecting airport because the longer trip is cheaper.
Hidden-city ticketing means booking a flight beyond the intended destination and getting off at the connecting airport because the longer trip is cheaper.
Also called: Skiplagging, Throwaway ticketing.
How it works#
The practice breaches almost every airline’s conditions of carriage and has concrete consequences: the return is cancelled, checked bags travel on to the final destination, and frequent flyer accounts can be closed. Airlines have pursued travellers for damages over it. An honest calculation weighs the saving against those risks, not just against the fare difference.
Not to be confused with#
Hidden-city ticketing is not the same as a misconnection: a misconnection happens involuntarily, a hidden-city ticket is booked that way on purpose.
In German#
The German term is Hidden-City-Ticketing. German version of this term
Related terms#
- No-show clause: A no-show clause is the condition that the rest of a booking is cancelled if a passenger fails to take one flight segment.
- Split ticketing: Split ticketing means dividing a journey into several separate tickets because the sum of the parts costs less than the through booking.
- Conditions of carriage: Conditions of carriage are an airline’s general contract terms, setting out the rights and duties of both sides for every ticket it sells.
Articles that use this term#
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