skiplagging
noun & verb

- also referred to as “hidden-city” or “throwaway” ticketing, is the practice of booking a less-expensive flight option with a layover city without planning to fly the entire route. Instead, the stopover is the traveller's intended destination

Wikipedia

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WORD ORIGIN

The practice of skiplagging derives from the website service Skiplagged(dot)com which was started by 20-year-old Aktarer Zaman in 2013.

In November 2014, United Airlines and Orbitz filed a civil lawsuit for $75,000 in lost revenue, claiming that the website violated fare rules. The Orbitz lawsuit was settled out of court, in which Skiplagged agreed not to redirect traffic to Orbitz sites or use Orbitz branding. The United lawsuit was dismissed by the courts on procedural grounds. United did not pursue further legal action. Donors contributed for legal expenses via GoFundMe.

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AN IMPORTANT PASSENGER

"Passengers on a flight from Bangladesh to London," The Daily Telegraph reported in 1985, "waited for takeoff after all the doors had been closed when a terrible banging on the passenger door could be heard. The crew refused to let the person on as he was too late for the flight. Only after they reluctantly opened it did they discover that it was the pilot."

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SYNONYMS

- for fly

airborne, airplaning, aloft, ascend, aviate, balloon, birdlike, boost, breeze, buoyant, cannonball, climb, cloud-surfing, coast, cruise, dart, descend, dip, dive, dogfight, drift, elevate, flit, float, FLY, flitter, flutter, freefall, glide, go aloft (up), hang glide, helicopter, hover, hurtle, jet, jetpack, kite, launch, leap, levitate, liftoff, maneuver, pilot, plummet, propel, pull up, rocket, skim, skip, skitter, skydive, skyrocket, soar, somersault, spacewalk, spiral, streak, swoop, take off, twirl, twist, typhoon, updraft, vault, whirl, wingsuit, yaw, yo-yo, zoom

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SMUGGLE OWAD into a conversation, say something like:

“I wouldn’t recommend SKIPLAGGING — airlines can cancel tickets, deplete loyalty points and miles, and even take passengers to court.”

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