“Skiplagging” — or booking a flight with a layover to skip the last leg of travel — is a common hack for travelers who don’t want to pay for a direct flight or who to save money on airfare to a connecting destination. Airlines contend the practice results in lost revenue for seats on planes.
They’re going to lose this lawsuit and open the door to even more skiplagging.
They are definitely causing the Barbara Streisand effect with this. Before seeing this post, I had never heard of skiplagging…now there is a 100% chance I will check for skiplagging my next flight if it saves me money.
Same here, I only heard about this practice just a few days ago. Now it’s 100% going to be something I try next time I fly.
Fuck the airlines. Don’t like losing money for lost seats? That’s too bad, maybe try providing a better service. Skiplagging only became a thing because people caught on to your abusive pricing schemes. You made your bed, American Airlines, now lie in it.
This will like end up having a Streisand Effect for them.
It’s not even the first one lul. Skippedlag has been sued before for the same thing and they won.