How does skiplagging work, why do airlines hate it, and how can you get on your return flight if you’re supposed to be on the flight on the return layover?
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Hidden city ticketing only works for one way flights. Ticket prices aren’t set by passengers per flight, rather it’s a more like flights between 2 airports per day. An airline might be flying 10+ planes through the same airport from all over. So the prices on that leg of the flight and the flight overall will be lower. Thus you can board a flight from x to z and get off at the layover in y while paying less than a flight from x to y because there are less flights from x to y than from x to z.
Airlines don’t like it when you do this because if you don’t get in your flight from y to z then that’s an empty seat they could’ve sold another ticket for so that’s lost revenue.
As I said before there are no round trip flight with hidden city ticketing. You can construct a round trip with two one ways but you can’t buy a round trip ticket because if you don’t show up for your connecting flight then the airline assumes your tickets are altogether void.
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