American Airlines sues skiplagging website that helps travelers find cheap routes

A ticket from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles might cost you, say, $500. A ticket from Pittsburgh to Burbank , however, might cost you only $300–with a change of planes at Los Angeles. Buying that ticket and just going to Los Angeles is called skiplagging, and airlines hate it, even though it saves them the fuel cost of your weight on the second leg, because it slims the profit margins on busy routes. — Read the rest