By Walt Hickey Liking Numlock? Forward today’s email to a friend you think may enjoy it and might subscribe. Skip Lagger Lufthansa is suing a passenger for missing a flight, as part of an attempt to make an example out of “skip laggers.” Here’s how it works: Let’s say I wanted to go from New York to Atlanta. Oftentimes, it’s cheaper to take a flight from, say, New York to Richmond, but with a layover in Atlanta. Skip laggers simply buy the cheaper ticket and don’t get on the second plane. This annoys airlines — which have spent the past decades optimizing flight efficiency and presumably eat costs of lingering around for a person who’s purposefully missing their connection — to no end. Lufthansa says the passenger bought a ticket to fly from Seattle to Oslo via Frankfurt for 657 euros, or $743. They skipped that last leg, and the airline says the passenger should have paid
Numlock News: February 14, 2019
Numlock News: February 14, 2019
Numlock News: February 14, 2019
By Walt Hickey Liking Numlock? Forward today’s email to a friend you think may enjoy it and might subscribe. Skip Lagger Lufthansa is suing a passenger for missing a flight, as part of an attempt to make an example out of “skip laggers.” Here’s how it works: Let’s say I wanted to go from New York to Atlanta. Oftentimes, it’s cheaper to take a flight from, say, New York to Richmond, but with a layover in Atlanta. Skip laggers simply buy the cheaper ticket and don’t get on the second plane. This annoys airlines — which have spent the past decades optimizing flight efficiency and presumably eat costs of lingering around for a person who’s purposefully missing their connection — to no end. Lufthansa says the passenger bought a ticket to fly from Seattle to Oslo via Frankfurt for 657 euros, or $743. They skipped that last leg, and the airline says the passenger should have paid