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Questions tagged [hidden-city-ticketing]

An airline booking ploy whereby to travel from A to B a (usually cheaper) ticket is bought from A to C with a connection at B and the traveller ends the journey at B without continuing to C. This tag is for questions about the practice and its advantages and disadvantages.

Hidden city ticketing is an airline booking ploy in which you want to travel from A to B, so you buy a ticket from A to C with a connection at B, get off the plane at B, and never travel to C at all. This tag is for questions about the practice and its advantages and disadvantages.

There is an article on Wikipedia.

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Hidden City Ticketing - asking airline to change portion

I have booked a flight from AMS-FRA-YVR (Amsterdam to Frankfurt to Vancouver) and then back from YVR-FRA-AMS with Lufthansa. What I really want is just the FRA-YVR portion as I live in Frankfurt, so on the way back I was just planning on leaving…
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Can I only travel on the second leg of a one-stop flight?

Let's say there is an available booking from A-B-C, but I actually live in B. Can I book the flights and travel on the B-C flight only? I'm asking this because the A-B-C ticket is considerably cheaper than B-C ticket. If that is not possible, are…
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Why is hidden-city ticketing possible?

I have read in various posts why hidden-city-ticketing is a bad thing for the passengers and for the airplane-company (for example here or here) However, I still did not grasp, how come that a flight from A to B to C, is cheaper then a flight from…
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