Advantages Of Hidden City Ticketing

The world 's economy has been growing substantially in the past years. International trades and businesses have been increasing rapidly, causing business and leisure trips to increase as well. Eventually, prices of airline tickets increase substantially as demand rises. Some passengers are dissatisfied by the high price of airline tickets. Hence, in order to reduce their cost of traveling, some passengers would consider using hidden-city ticketing. (GAO 2001) For this reason, the price variation of airline tickets are very shocking. Someone might pay twice as much money as the person sitting beside. In this essay, I 'm going to explain what hidden-city ticketing is, the economic reason for the existence of these types of tickets and why it is damaging to us. …show more content…
For example, if a passenger goes directly from Los Angeles to Dallas, it might cost more than 250 dollars. However, for the same airline, it might cost only 150 dollars from Los Angeles to Austin, through a connection at Dallas. By means of hidden-city ticketing, if the passenger wants to go to Dallas, he or she can buy a ticket from Los Angeles to Austin and purposely deplanes at Dallas. In this case, Dallas is called the hidden city. With this tactic, the passenger can travel to Austin paying at least 100 dollars less. It is technically not an illegal action, however, it violates most airline 's fare rules. A website called ' 'www.skiplagged.com ' ' is facilitating the use of hidden-city ticketing by exposing hidden-city opportunities, which is not encouraged by