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Avoid these travel hacks for a smoother summer vacation - Pioneer Press
Travel hackers are thought to be some of the world’s smartest travelers. But they may not be as smart as they think.
Consider what happened to the Lufthansa passenger who tried one of the oldest travel tricks in the book, a strategy called “hidden city” ticketing. The passenger, booked to fly from Seattle to Oslo, skipped the last leg of the flight and traveled to Berlin from Frankfurt on a separate Lufthansa ticket instead, which reportedly saved him $2,385.
Lufthansa sued the unnamed passenger in Berlin, part of an industry-wide crackdown on hidden city hackers. A lower court dismissed the case, and the airline has appealed.
Hidden city ticketing, where you get off the plane at a stopover instead of flying to your designated final destination, takes advantage of a quirk in airline ticket pricing. Sometimes, counterintuitively, it costs more to fly to the stopover city than to the final destination.
Travel hackers are thought to be some of the world’s smartest travelers. But they may not be as smart as they think.
Consider what happened to the Lufthansa passenger who tried one of the oldest travel tricks in the book, a strategy called “hidden city” ticketing. The passenger, booked to fly from Seattle to Oslo, skipped the last leg of the flight and traveled to Berlin from Frankfurt on a separate Lufthansa ticket instead, which reportedly saved him $2,385.
Lufthansa sued the unnamed passenger in Berlin, part of an industry-wide crackdown on hidden city hackers. A lower court dismissed the case, and the airline has appealed.
Hidden city ticketing, where you get off the plane at a stopover instead of flying to your designated final destination, takes advantage of a quirk in airline ticket pricing. Sometimes, counterintuitively, it costs more to fly to the stopover city than to the final destination.