What is going on within the pricing scheme for flights that longer, ostensibly more costly-to-run flights are so much cheaper than alternatives that skip-lagging makes sense? Are airlines using multi-hop routes as loss leaders of some kind?<p>If so, no reason they shouldn't be the ones eating the cost when the customer calls their bluff.
Here's a CNN source from yesterday that's a bit clearer: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lufthansa-sues-passenger-scli-intl/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lufthansa-sues-passenger-...</a><p>If airline pricing made sense this wouldn't be a problem.