# Ought skiplagging be permitted? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 19, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-skiplagging-be-permitted/988795 "2023-08-19T12:06:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2023, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-skiplagging-be-permitted/988795/6 "2023-08-19T14:48:54Z")
We just had a fairly long thread about the factual nature of it, but it did go into the merits/morals as well. > [@Why does skiplagging work?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-skiplagging-work/986841): > > Skiplagging has been in the news lately. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s when you book a multi-leg flight, and then skip the last leg because the layover is actually where you want to end up. People do it because it’s actually cheaper than booking a flight from your origin to the the aforementioned layover. I recently looked at flights to Japan. For Delta One, a round trip starting from Detroit is about $8500, whereas if I book trip from Lansing, it’s about $5000. Both trips use the same f… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ought-skiplagging-be-permitted/988795)._