Ultimately, it’s incumbent on lawmakers to take steps to ensure this practice is discouraged.

Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’::Ultimately, it’s incumbent on lawmakers to take steps to ensure this practice is discouraged.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In this case, Qatar Airways was making these extra journeys to avoid caps that allow it to make only 28 weekly trips to Australia’s major airports, which includes Melbourne. Landing at Adelaide Airport, which is not among that list, as the final destination enabled the airline to make additional journeys to Melbourne, as there were no limits on flights to non-major airports.

    Cute.

    • ShakeThatYam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Love the double standard. When you do this as a passenger to get a cheaper fare the airliner will ban you for life.

      • Kiernian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        When you do this as a passenger to get a cheaper fare the airliner will ban you for life.

        Wait, are you saying if you buy a ticket from Orlando to Las Vegas and the flight stops for a planned plane change in Atlanta, if you get off in Atlanta because that was your actual destination and DON’T continue on to Vegas you can get in trouble?