Originally Posted by
RangerNS
The ticket can never violate US law; a PAX can never violate US law. Cabotage is an activity a carrier does, legally or illegally. The cargo isn't responsible to the various sovereign states for complying with that law.
Presumably IDBing a PAX and putting them up for 24 hours (and paying out any IDB compensation) is considerably less then whatever the cabotage fines are. The airline systems should not allow the routing to be booked, and the airlines would consider it bad behavior on the PAX part to keep trying to make it happen, subverting their system. But not breaking any laws.
Like jury nullification, it is not illegal and on one can do anything to you if you manage to pull it off. But knowing about it may mean that you never get called for jury duty again. Or potentially be blacklisted by the carrier whose system you broke multiple times.
Not sure I quite agree with some of that stuff. First, these are rules, not laws. Rules about what airlines are allowed to sell, end of the story.
So I don't see how passengers might violate any law. At best, airlines might be concerned with the appearance that they broke the rules.
As a passenger, I could always claim that I had some business in Toronto that only required me to be trhere for half an hour.