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Re:How to Beat High Airfares (2011) by Someone1234 on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:37PM (#8320167)
That's unlikely simply because it would upset a lot of people, non-cheaters, as it both alters their itinerary but also alters the total travel time (e.g. 8 hrs instead of 6 hrs).

Plus that isn't really how aircraft travel works, it isn't a single aircraft which travels from A to B to C, it is a connection which only exists because aircraft A and B land at the same airport within 30-60 minutes of one another.

Now everyone understands if there is an aircraft issue/emergency and the airline needs to re-route you. But if they started making a random habit of it just for "fun" (to catch less than 0.1% of their customers) people would get upset very quickly.

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Re:How to Beat High Airfares (2011) by nostrademons on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:52PM (#8320252)
It would also wreak havoc with the airlines' routing system. The reason this hack works is because airlines try to route connecting flights through hub cities so that many different passengers can get to many different cities; if they routed the connection through a different city, suddenly all the other passengers would find themselves with no way to get to a final destination.
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