The biggest problem I have with skiplagged is that I know the airlines WILL find a way to prevent this if people are doing it en masse. Make no mistake. And it'

The biggest problem I have with skiplagged is that I know the airlines WILL find a way to prevent this if people are doing it en masse. Make no mistake. And it's virtually guaranteed that whatever they do to stop it will not benefit passengers. In the best case, it will only hurt the people using these tricks, but I'd be willing to bet there will be some collateral damage. That's the main reason I think it's shortsighted to massively publish loopholes like this. If just a few people are doing it, they'll ignore it. But when someone creates a highly visible service like this to encourage it, there's a good chance it will become too common for them to ignore. If the expected outcome of that would be that the loophole was closed in a way that makes pricing more fair for everyone, great. But I can't see how anyone who pays attention to how airlines operate could expect that to be the case. In the short term, we win. In the long term, we lose.