Consumers find a way to save money and are bad. Companies find a way and they act like heroes.

Lufthansa is flagging you a no-show and cancels your return flight without warning or reimbursement. I didn’t like them before, but after doing that I will never set a foot in one of their planes.

I had a international flight with the last leg being a bus ride from Munich to Nuremberg after a 7 hour layover. I opted to take the train that got me there considerably quicker.

On the morning of my return flight when I was about to check in the lady at the counter told me my booking is non existing. That fun trick by Lufthansa cost me 600€ extra.

But I know that is just a little price compared to the emotional damage that poor little company was caused by me…

So basically, they are abusing customers by making them pay more for shorter distance just because they know they can, and when customers try to work around those abuses, the airliners sue them. If this is not a clear cut case for regulation, I don’t know what this is (then again, I’m a european :P ).

I’d never heard of skiplagging before but I’m really struggling to see what the problem is. From how the article describes it, a traveller buys a ticket and pays the full requested price, but simply opts not to travel one leg that they’d already paid for. The full price was paid either way, but now the airline saves money on fuel by carrying less weight. Where exactly are they claiming they lose money? Just because someone chose a cheaper flight? Utter bullshit.

Meanwhile, it’s totally acceptable for airlines to overbook flights and bump passengers…