Oh, and welcome to FT

As you might've guessed, your question is posed quite frequently here, at least a few times a week. While the FT terms of use require users to search for existing threads on their question before starting a new ones, this particular issue always seems to spawn new threads. I'm not sure why that is - certainly many novice users don't know to search for the official term ("hidden-city ticketing"), but alternates should still work ("skip segment", "skip first flight", etc). I was only half-kidding about the Sticky in my previous post; perhaps a proactive step like this would cut down on new threads about this common question.