Hidden city ticketing. Anything better than skiplagged ?
Sep 14, 2016, 4:28 pm
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Hidden city ticketing. Anything better than skiplagged ?
Found the following accidentally by looking up fares on google flights :
One way nonstop flight SJC-NRT on 11/23 :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...11-27;tt=o;s=0
Showing $1073 as of this reading.
Add nonstop NRT-SGN one week later on 11/30:
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-30;tt=m;s=0,0
Now it drops to $777 - savings of $296 !
It gets better :
Add SGN-SFO another week later (this one with a stop) on 12/7 :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-07;tt=m;s=0,0
Now it drops to $711, saving another $66 .
Edit : found another one for $702 by changing the last leg to SGN-LAX :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-07;tt=m;s=0,0
Or $686 by changing the last leg to SGN-SEA :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-07;tt=m;s=0,0
Questions :
1) why does skiplagged.com not find any of this ? Is it because of the United lawsuit ?
2) if you are only traveling SJC-NRT and don't care about the other 2 flights, is there any reason not to book this and just throw away the other 2 tickets ?
3) SGN (Vietnam) needs a visa.
Is there any chance that the airline would ask to see the Vietnam on 11/23, the day of the initial SJC-NRT flight ? Could they deny boarding if it's not there ?
4) if not flying those flights #2 and #3, is there any way that makes sense to cancel and reschedule the flight for a later date ? Or do you just have to throw them away ?
5) can I just keep adding more and more flights and drop the ticket price even more ;-) ?
6) what's the best way to find these kind of hidden city deals ? skiplagged doesn't seem to be it . Searching manually saves hundreds of dollars, but is very tedious. There has got to be a site out that that can find these, isn't there ?
One way nonstop flight SJC-NRT on 11/23 :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...11-27;tt=o;s=0
Showing $1073 as of this reading.
Add nonstop NRT-SGN one week later on 11/30:
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-30;tt=m;s=0,0
Now it drops to $777 - savings of $296 !
It gets better :
Add SGN-SFO another week later (this one with a stop) on 12/7 :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-07;tt=m;s=0,0
Now it drops to $711, saving another $66 .
Edit : found another one for $702 by changing the last leg to SGN-LAX :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-07;tt=m;s=0,0
Or $686 by changing the last leg to SGN-SEA :
https://www.google.com/flights/#sear...-07;tt=m;s=0,0
Questions :
1) why does skiplagged.com not find any of this ? Is it because of the United lawsuit ?
2) if you are only traveling SJC-NRT and don't care about the other 2 flights, is there any reason not to book this and just throw away the other 2 tickets ?
3) SGN (Vietnam) needs a visa.
Is there any chance that the airline would ask to see the Vietnam on 11/23, the day of the initial SJC-NRT flight ? Could they deny boarding if it's not there ?
4) if not flying those flights #2 and #3, is there any way that makes sense to cancel and reschedule the flight for a later date ? Or do you just have to throw them away ?
5) can I just keep adding more and more flights and drop the ticket price even more ;-) ?
6) what's the best way to find these kind of hidden city deals ? skiplagged doesn't seem to be it . Searching manually saves hundreds of dollars, but is very tedious. There has got to be a site out that that can find these, isn't there ?
Sep 15, 2016, 3:15 pm
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I'll take a stab at the first question: Could it be that skiplagged only searches for flights that are connecting, not stopovers? I'm curious if this is still "hidden city" given that these are stopovers, not connections. The airline had no intention of aggregating these segments to provide a A to C routing via B. I think this is called throwaway ticketing? Honestly not sure about the technical difference between the two terms...