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Aug 18, 2023 | 7:31pm
American Airlines is suing travel websites that sell airline tickets that exploit the airline’s pricing peculiarities to make people save money.
American Airlines this week sued Skiprud in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, alleging the website was deceptive. Threatened to cancel all tickets sold by Skiplagg.
In a practice known as skiplag and hidden city ticketing, travelers book flights that include at least one stopover, but deplane between connections. Skip lag is generally not illegal, but airlines claim it violates their policy.
Last month, an American banned a 17-year-old from a plane from Gainesville, Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina, for three years after he tried to board a plane with New York City as his address. destination. For a teenager it was cheaper than booking a direct flight to Charlotte.
In the lawsuit, American Airlines accused Skiprud of deceiving consumers into believing it could take advantage of “some sort of secret ‘loophole’.” American Airlines said the website pretended to be a consumer to buy tickets and warned customers not to tip the airline about the matter. Placement.
American Airlines said New York-based Skipragd is not allowed to resell tickets.
“Skip Plugged’s conduct is deceptive and abusive,” the airline said in its lawsuit. “Skipplugged deceives the public into thinking it can somehow issue fully valid airline tickets, even though it is not authorized to contract and issue on behalf of American Airlines. All “tickets” are at risk of becoming invalid. ”
Skiplagged did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Skiplagged has been sued before.
United Airlines and online travel agency Orbitz accused Aktarar Zaman, then in his early 20s, of promoting a “prohibited mode of travel” when he started Skiprud around 2014.
Zaman, who set up a GoFundMe to pay for legal costs, settled with Orbitz and United’s lawsuit was dismissed.
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