With air fares on the rise, vacationers could be tempted to cut costs by using a trick known as skiplagging.
With airfares on the rise, vacationers could be tempted to cut costs by using a trick known as skiplagging.
But why would anyone go to such lengths? The answer is to save money. Direct flights are generally more expensive than flights with stopovers. That’s how it works in theory. But in practice, it’s not quite so simple. First of all, using this ruse comes with certain risks, and consequences, like bans and cancellations imposed by the airline with which you were supposed to travel. In July, a 17-year-old American traveler found this out the hard way.banned him from boarding its aircraft for three years for buying a ticket from Gainesville, Florida, to New York via Charlotte, North Carolina, where he planned to end his journey.
Similarly, travelers don’t always have to recover and re-check their luggage at the stopover, as sometimes it gets transferred straight to the final destination. Finally, there are a number of precautions to be taken, as detailed by the Skiplagged.com platform, which tracks down this type of “hidden-city” flight.
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