Skiplagged.com, site that is sued by United Airlines and Orbitz

A very interesting thread going on at reddit.com

I launched Skiplagged.com last year with the goal of helping consumers become savvy travelers. This involved making an airfare search engine that is capable of finding hidden-city opportunities, being kosher about combining two one-ways for cheaper than round-trip costs, etc. The first of these has received the most attention and is all about itineraries where your destination is a layover and actually cost less than where it’s the final stop. This has potential to easily save consumers up to 80% when compared with the cheapest on KAYAK, for example. Finding these has always been difficult before Skiplagged because you’d have to guess the final destination when searching on any other site.

Finally I think I understood what is all about.

You want to fly from Seattle to Chicago. You buy a ticket from Seattle to Chicago to New York, that is cheaper than Seattle to Chicago (apparently it does not make sense to be this way but it has to do with market competition, and airlines know what they are doing).

You get off in Chicago and that’s it, you don’t use the leg to New York as you didn’t want to fly there in the first place, and this seems not to be legal as buying a ticket to New York you agreed you would fly there.

From the thread:

Yeah, I just read the suit. One of their claims is tortious interference with quote “customer contractual relationships,” so they consider your contract of carriage legally binding and consider Skiplagged as interfering with it.