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Old Jan 25, 2019 | 9:33 pm
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Originally Posted by onobond
Spot on there, the US carriers are eagerly tracking a variation on the theme, "hidden city ticketing", where a ticket AAA-BBB is more expensive than AAA-BBB-CCC. Finding someone that repeatedly buys the latter ticket, but never flies the second segment, means a severe risk of experiencing exactly the procedure you describe.
Indeed. And it has been said that such people trying to game the system get pretty upset when IROPS causes them to be rebooked, and the airline reroutes them either directly AAA-CCC or AAA-DDD-CCC and they end up somewhere they really don't want to be!

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