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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Charlie Jones

Teen DETAINED at airport after trying to use popular travel hack to cut costs

A teenager was detained at an airport after he was caught using a airline hack where travellers buy cheaper indirect flights but exit the airport at the layover.

The scheme - called skiplagging - can save fliers serious money and although not illegal can violate some airlines' codes of conduct.

Logan Parsons was trying to fly home to Charlotte, North Carolina, from Gainesville, Florida, but the cheapest ticket option was to get an American Airlines ticket to New York and jump out at the layover.

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