Personal experience: I almost got blacklisted by American Airlines for skippling

Skipping, or buying tickets to a "hidden city", is when you book a flight with a transfer, but in fact you need not to the final destination, but to an intermediate one. Thus, you do not fly to the end, but go off the route during the transfer. But as it turns out, it can be costly. Cassie Aran, a TikTok blogger known for her travel videos, told the publication Business Insider, how she was almost banned for such tricks. Next - from the first person.

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For example, I wanted to fly to Washington, DC, so I bought a plane ticket to Boston, Massachusetts with a connection in Washington. In fact, I didn't even plan to go to Boston. Skipplugging is done to save money, which is why I did it.

The first time I tried skipplugging, everything went great. But during my trip to Washington, something went wrong.

After arriving at the airport, I received my boarding pass on my phone. When I opened it, there was a note in my pass asking me to go to the cashier.

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I had never experienced this before and I was worried. When booking tickets on Skiplagged, I remember the website telling users not to tell the airline they booked through Skiplagged.com.

I was worried that I had been caught.

When I got to the counter, the woman looked at my ticket and called the boss. A minute later, she approached me again and asked if I had bought the ticket through Skiplagged.

I lied - I didn't want to get in trouble. However, the airport employee warned me that their system had detected this.

She then said that if I missed my flight to my final destination, I would be banned from American Airlines altogether.

I didn't know the consequences would be so severe.

Then it got worse: she asked me where my final destination was, and I couldn't answer her because I didn't remember, and this aroused suspicion.

This situation scared me a lot. Since I didn't want to get banned, I had two options: either fly to my final destination or cancel my flight.

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I decided to cancel my Skiplagged ticket and bought another one the right way - through my phone. Thanks to this I was not banned.

This story really scared me, and I decided not to do it again. Now I buy tickets correctly.

If you are going to try such a risky way too, then I advise you not to do it. Otherwise, you may run into the same problems as me.

For me personally, skipplugging is not worth the risk.

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