Scoring cheap holiday flights with hidden city ticketing

Jeff An
5 min readMar 28, 2021

TLDR; Save hundreds of dollars in airfare by booking flights to cheaper destinations and hopping off at a connection point.

It’s a month before the holidays and your parents want to know when you’ll be coming home. After much procrastination, you nervously glance at Google Flights and see that your worst fears have been realized — the cheapest roundtrip flight now costs over $500.

Holiday season is a huge moneymaker for airlines because they know people need to make it home no matter the cost. But consumers…

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Jeff An

Building the future of software testing @momentic.ai. Avid travel hacker, technical gear geek, and proud Waterloo alum.