Originally Posted by
ExAAerOnDL
But if you trick the airline into selling you a fare which requires a Saturday night stay when you don't have a Saturday night stay, you've committed fraud.
*ROTFL*
Nobody's "tricking" the airline into selling anything. An airline offers to sell us a fare, we buy it. Real simple. If there's any deception & trickery, it's in what the airline tries to bury in their fine print (fare rules & CoC).
Originally Posted by
ExAAerOnDL
It is not your job to tell DL how to run its business. It is free to put whatever conditions it wants on sale. If those conditions are economically uncompetitive in the marketplace, the market will make that decision. Not you. That's called a free market.
*yawn*
I'll criticize Delta whenever and wherever I please.
Originally Posted by
ExAAerOnDL
As I've said before, Southwest's network model is not nearly as exposed to hidden-city and back-to-back ticketing schemes because it is point-to-point and does not have large Saturday night stay discounts (if any). Thus they have less incentive to enforce against them.
Southwest has plenty of hubs in its network. They call them "focus cities" but they are hubs in every sense of the word, and some are quite large.
Hidden-city ticketing only requires connecting flights, which are quite normal on Southwest. Back-to-back ticketing has nothing to do at all with hubs vs. point-to-point travel.