Airline sued the owner of a site that offers discount tickets to the unexpected

Did you know that airlines are playing with the price of a ticket to underestimate the cost of tickets to the less popular destinations, and overestimate the cost of the more popular? Sounds logical. But sometimes it turns out that fly from point A to point C with a change in B is cheaper than flying from A to B! This is the strange, but it happens sometimes. It turns out that you can save by buying a ticket with a change, and got off the flight in the interchange point.

Service on the selection of precisely such "discount" and offers service Skiplagged . For example, from Chicago to Paris выгоднее fly , buying a ticket to Dubai with transfer in Paris, and then just go in Paris. Profitable? Another would be. For passengers. But as it turned out, not for the airlines. In connection with United Airlines Inc. and site Ticket Orbitz filed a joint lawsuit against the service. The company claims that Aktater Zaman "willfully and maliciously" interfered in the work of the airline industry by "propaganda forbidden ways to travel." Nothing more, nothing less.

InsideFlyer publisher Randy Petersen told агентству Bloomberg , hundreds of thousands of savvy travelers annually use such tricks to save their money. Airlines, in turn, try to keep track of such attempts and prevent them, depriving passengers bonuses in the form of free miles or coupon accounts, on the grounds that such passengers enjoy an unfair advantage and actually rob carriers. "To do so is unethical - they say - it's like to replace tags in supermarkets." Passengers, of course, dispute with the company: "If you pay for a bag of chips, you are not obliged to eat them all." A site Skiplagged meanwhile encourages users to make a donation to fight against the claim in court.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/243749/