Have any airlines ever banned anyone for exploiting hidden city or throwaway ticketing?

9/6/2022 10:51:24 PM

As of 2022 the answer is no, no one has actually been banned for hidden city or throwaway ticketing. At worst, people were warned of being sued for monetary loss by the airline, but I can’t find any examples of someone actually getting to court over the issue.

There is a small chance that such examples exist but aren’t available on the Internet (or I couldn’t find them) but such a story would be pretty big and I assume it would be easy to find if it did happen.

12/19/2017 3:39:19 PM

Here is a reference I found: https://www.gao.gov/new.items/d01831.pdf A US-government study on the issue concluding that openly allowing hidden-city ticketing is not generally desirable

I haven’t found any concrete cases of passengers being banned for the practice. In honesty, I suspect it would have to be done to an extreme case to be a problem.

It does cause airlines some operational issues. Flights can leave sooner if all passengers have arrived, but passengers that intend not to arrive, of course, never arrive. This prevents flights from departing as quickly. Also, there may be standby passengers whose reservations can be confirmed more quickly and their bags loaded more rapidly, helping airlines maintain their schedule.

I read a lot of posts at FlyerTalk (a web forum) and have found lots of discussion about the issue there, including some flyers who have been warned that if they continue hidden-city ticketing, that they will face repercussions, but have not found any evidence that repercussions actually happened. (I suspect the passengers stopped doing the practice, or changed airlines.)

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