Hacker fares are wrong – but not as wrong as this
Passengers are breaking fare rules to save money. Are they breaking the law?
Would you break a rule for a cheaper airline ticket?
Susan Stevens did when she booked a hacker fare from Vienna to Frankfurt. A round-trip ticket costs hundreds of dollars less than a one-way ticket. So she bought a round-trip fare.
"After I landed, I threw the return ticket away," recalls Stevens, a retired publicist from Philadelphia.
What rule did she…
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