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Avoid these travel hacks for a smoother summer vacation
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1162" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.twincities.com/2019/05/26/avoid-these-travel-hacks-for-a-smoother-summer-vacation/" target="_blank"><strong>Avoid these travel hacks for a smoother summer vacation - Pioneer Press</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Travel hackers are thought to be some of the world’s smartest travelers. But they may not be as smart as they think.</strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1162, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.twincities.com/2019/05/26/avoid-these-travel-hacks-for-a-smoother-summer-vacation/'][B]Avoid these travel hacks for a smoother summer vacation - Pioneer Press[/B][/URL] [B]Travel hackers are thought to be some of the world’s smartest travelers. But they may not be as smart as they think.[/B] 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. [/QUOTE]
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