Skiplagging. How is it ever cheaper to go from point A-B-C than it would be to go A-B?

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I understand that skiplagging is finding a flight that is cheaper to go from point A, to B, with a planned trip to C, but just leaving the airport at B.

I don’t understand the basic concept of how this happens though. How is a flight from A-B-C, ever cheaper than a flight just A-B? The extra cost of the C leg would have to be entirely absorbed by the savings from A-B, how is that possible?

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Competition.

People will pay more for nonstop flights. So airlines have to offer an incentive to take a connecting flight, by making multiple flights cheaper.

Eg flying Dallas to Paris you can fly Air France or American. But if you take a connection you can fly Delta, United, Lufthansa, British Airways, Air Canada, Turkish, etc.

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