[HN Gopher] Teenager detained at airport after trying to use "sk...
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       Teenager detained at airport after trying to use "skiplagging"
       trick
        
       Author : pessimizer
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2023-07-12 21:04 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
       | God, I despise how much bullshit corporations will try to
       | convince the populace that something is somehow morally wrong
       | when all it does is make them less money:
       | 
       | 1. Even the name "skiplagging" sounds similar to the invented
       | crime of "jaywalking" to me - jaywalking a crime famously
       | invented by US car companies to take control of our roads.
       | 
       | 2. "At the gate, however, Logan's North Carolina ID raised red
       | flags with the agent and the teen was subsequently taken to a
       | security room and interrogated, Hunter said." I would be livid if
       | I were this kid's parents. They're trying to treat their BS way
       | to make more money as a crime.
       | 
       | In short, airlines are fucking around and I hope they find out.
        
       | realitythreek wrote:
       | How was this legal? Missing a connecting flight means you're
       | detained and forced to buy a new ticket? Dispute that charge for
       | not providing service as paid for.
        
         | hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
         | One clarification - he wasn't detained in Charlotte, he was
         | questioned in Florida before he got on the first leg of his
         | flight. The gate agents then canceled his full itinerary and
         | made him buy a full fair ticket to Charlotte.
         | 
         | The reason this happened is because adults intimidated a child.
         | If it were me, I would have told them to fuck off, sure that I
         | was planning to go to NYC, and oh crap I'd unexpectedly get
         | food poisoning in Charlotte and had to stay there.
         | 
         | Airlines are trying to have their cake and eat it, too, with
         | their BS fare games. If they don't want people "skiplagging"
         | they should price their tickets accordingly.
        
         | pylua wrote:
         | Right how is that not kidnapping ?
        
         | hayd wrote:
         | "Dispute that charge" they refunded the ticket.
         | 
         | There really needs to be punitive damages.
         | 
         | That prices are higher for a partial flight is the criminal
         | aspect here.
        
       | throw9away6 wrote:
       | He must have said something stupid to tsa. Or just really
       | unlucky.
        
         | Supermancho wrote:
         | The ticket desk noticed his Driver's License and deduced.
         | Probably an existing policy to look out for this kind of
         | shortcut and a brownie point awarded. Not sure why a reasonable
         | person would turn this kid in or how it would otherwise be
         | discovered.
        
           | throw9away6 wrote:
           | Ticket desk? What decade are we talking about? The only
           | ticket desk is if you check bags everyone else has a printed
           | boarding pass you go straight to tsa. The folks at the
           | airplane gate don't look at id and are rushing everyone in.
        
         | conk wrote:
         | "We've used Skiplagged almost exclusively for the last five to
         | eight years" Seems trivial to flag people who frequently use
         | this trick. Or just flag based upon resident address.
        
           | addisonl wrote:
           | Or just allow your customers to buy your flights at the price
           | you are (already) selling them at.
        
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