When the average person searches for a flight, they enter the location they’re leaving from and their intended destination. Of course, when you exit a flight, the plane continues to its next destination.
What if you booked a flight to the next city on a given airplane’s itinerary? Could it save you money?
The term “hidden city flights,” sometimes referred to as the point beyond ticketing, pertains to the practice of booking a flight for a city beyond your destination but then getting off early.
Say, for example, you want to travel from Los Angeles, CA, to Dallas, TX, but the flights are too expensive. You might find that a flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta, GA, with a layover in Austin, for example, is less costly. So you book the longer flight and simply get off in Austin without ever getting on the connecting flight to Atlanta. This is the idea behind hidden city flights.