Lufthansa Is Suing a Passenger for Missing a Flight

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10 points·eaguyhn··8 comments

What is going on within the pricing scheme for flights that longer, ostensibly more costly-to-run flights are so much cheaper than alternatives that skip-lagging makes sense? Are airlines using multi-hop routes as loss leaders of some kind?

If so, no reason they shouldn't be the ones eating the cost when the customer calls their bluff.

That exactly it.

Competition on high volume routes plus larger aircraft on those routes to amortize the costs.

This is exactly what happened with trains. High volume routes saw a lot of competition and were very cheap and local routes were very expensive. So I can often fly Denver to London cheaper than Denver to Durango, CO.

There's more parallels around regulating trains and how the train companies were eventually bankrupted and taken over, with the inverse happening around when Southwest was new.

In part, when you buy a ticket you also agree to their terms. The terms say you cannot do this, so this is a pretty simple case of contract law. If you don’t agree you don’t have to do business with them.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144006

Here's a CNN source from yesterday that's a bit clearer: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lufthansa-sues-passenger-...

If airline pricing made sense this wouldn't be a problem.

Lufthansa Is Suing a Passenger for exploiting hidden city ticketing (possibly multiple times) to recover the fare difference.

That title is NOT the whole story.

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