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When you buy a ticket, you're entering into a contract with the airline. See pg. 11 here for the relevant bits: http://www.united.com/web/format/pdf/Contract_of

• colordrops 12y ago
  Once again, what law or contract has skiplagged broken? They do not purchase tickets, and they do not enter contracts with airlines.
  • jowiar 12y ago
    IANAL, but I would imagine that they're in a similar situation to ThePirateBay -- "We aren't doing anything wrong - we're just giving information to other people how they can". I'm curious how the case is going to shake out.
    • colordrops 12y ago
      ThePirateBay is a terrible precedent. Pointing at criminals should never be a crime.
  • justinsb 12y ago
    My concern is that a passenger might buy a ticket through skiplagged, and not understand that they risk getting banned from the airline. If you live near a one-airline airport, that's a pretty serious risk.
    • jowiar 12y ago
      I think "getting banned" is far less of a risk-by-way-of-misunderstanding than "the airline isn't compelled to deliver you where you want to go". When I've bought ticket A->B->C, my actual travel has included routes such as: A->C, A->D->C, A->D->E->C, A->D-(train)-C, A-(Cab)-A'->C.
  • pdabbadabba 12y ago
    I haven't looked into the actual legal details of this case, but in most jurisdictions it is a tort (i.e.l illegal) to interfere with others' business contracts. It's a notoriously tricky area of law though, and the source of a lot of borderline frivolous lawsuits. There are also numerous exceptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference