Hm, I think this article might possibly be astroturfing/stealth advertising Emirates, maybe some others. It says due to a treaty they are the cheapest flight f

Hm, I think this article might possibly be astroturfing/stealth advertising Emirates, maybe some others. It says due to a treaty they are the cheapest flight from New York to Italy, at $988, compared to United charging $3328. Checking some flight sites I see Emirates prominently featured at the top of pages as a sponsored result. Their costs are not the lowest. And $3328 is not a normal lowest priced ticket, I wonder how many dates they had to look at and other cheaper flights they had to ignore to list that United fare as one of the comparisons. Definitely some cherry picking going on on that one. I found Oct 16-Oct 30 from New York to Rome for $365. Granted outbound is American and inbound is Finnair makes a stop in Helsinki with a 12 hr layover. But hey for $365... In any case I don't believe it's true that flights with the characteristics in the article are always the cheapest, or maybe not even most of the time. It doesn't really seem like a loophole anyway. Singapore Airlines flying from Singapore to Honolulu to San Francisco is obviously a legitimate flight. If some people only want the Honolulu leg there's nothing wrong with that, it's not a loophole or trick.