The airline filed a lawsuit against the owner of the site offering tickets with an unexpected discount.

Did you know that airlines, playing with ticket prices, underestimate the cost of tickets to less popular destinations, and inflate the cost of more popular ones? It looks logical. But sometimes it turns out that flying from point A to point C with a transfer to B is cheaper than just flying from A to B! This is already strange, but it also happens. It turns out that you can save money by buying a ticket with a transfer, and getting off the flight at the transfer point.

Service for the selection of such "discounts" and offers service Skiplagged . For example, it is more profitable to fly from Chicago to Paris by buying a ticket to Dubai with a transfer in Paris, and then just get off in Paris. Profitable? Still would. For passengers. But as it turned out, not for airlines. In this connection, United Airlines Inc. and the Orbitz ticket booking site filed a joint service claim. The companies claim that Aktater Zaman “deliberately and maliciously” interfered in the work of the airline industry by “promoting prohibited travel methods”. No more, no less.

InsideFlyer magazine publisher Randy Petersen told Bloomberg that hundreds of thousands of experienced travelers use these tricks every year to save their money. Airlines, in turn, try to keep track of such attempts and stop them, depriving passengers of bonuses in the form of free miles or coupon accounts, on the basis that such passengers enjoy unfair advantage and, in fact, rob carriers. “To act so unethically,” they say, “is like replacing price tags in supermarkets.” Naturally, passengers argue with companies: “if you paid for a whole bag of chips, you do not have to eat them all”.
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Meanwhile, the site Skiplagged urges users to make donations to fight against a lawsuit in court. An interesting feature of the situation is that the site owner did not have a profit from it and did not advertise there, but simply provided the service for free to anyone.