American Airlines bans teen who tried to use skip-lagging hack for NYC ticket
on a booked flight to New York City on American Airlines was hit with a three-year ban by the carrier.
“His ticket was canceled and he was banned from AA for three years but never actually did anything wrong. He never even got his boarding pass,” Parsons, who booked the flight, told the outlet on Facebook. Hunter Parsons booked his son Logan an American Airlines ticket from Gainesville, Florida, to New York City — with a layover in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he actually planned to disembark.The dad told Insider that he had to buy a new direct ticket, which cost more than $400, so his son could fly to Charlotte.
Skiplagging is a cost-cutting method in which a passenger books a flight’s layover as the true destination rather than continuing to the ticketed destination.Facebook / Lisa Cain Parsons
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