A US citizen, 22-year-old Aktarer Zaman, was prosecuted by two "mastodons" of the airline industry, United Airlines and the online booking service Orbitz, for publishing information that allows you to save significantly on buying tickets. Aktarer Zaman drew attention to the fact that the cost of a ticket with a transfer is always cheaper than a direct flight. Zaman created a website where he explained to all visitors how you can save a lot on tickets. It turns out that you need to buy a ticket with a transfer in the city you need to get to. That is, the passenger simply gets off the plane at the transfer airport and thus saves in some cases up to several hundred dollars.
It is interesting that such tricks are quite suitable not only for saving on the price of air travel in the United States, but also for any country in the world and especially for international flights. To verify this, just ten minutes on the popular Ukrainian web service for searching and booking air tickets around the world is enough iFly.ua. The online service algorithms will find all possible air travel options both with and without transfers (if such flights exist at all) within a few seconds. By comparing and analyzing the search results, you can find interesting options to save on a flight using the Aktarer Zaman method.
American media cite as an example a direct flight from Des Moines (Iowa) to Dallas (Texas), which costs $375. At the same time, buying a ticket for a flight with a transfer Des Moines-Dallas-Los Angeles costs half as much. By getting off at the Dallas airport, the passenger saves a lot, even though he paid for the entire flight.
The lawsuit, filed by United Airlines and Orbitz, demands that Zaman pay $75 in damages lost profits due to his fault. Meanwhile, many lawyers agree that the young man did not break any laws. However, at the moment his website is closed, but grateful users who learned the secret of cheap air tickets have already collected about 35 thousand dollars for the resourceful American.
