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Hidden City Ticketing Wasn’t a Hack — The Babson-Origin Business Class Pricing Story

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Hidden city ticketing is usually dismissed as a loophole or trick—but that’s a surface-level misunderstanding. It didn’t emerge from travelers trying to game the system. It emerged from the system itself. What I learned at Babson—particularly around how businesses manage fixed capacity and unpredictable demand—explains exactly why airline pricing behaves the way it does. Once you understand that, hidden city ticketing stops looking like a hack and starts looking like a predictable byproduct of how airlines fill premium seats without lowering public fares. Hey 19, Wanna Be President? Let this be a lesson to any aspiring nineteen-year old trying to make it before they're ready. When a group of middle-aged businessmen nominate a 19 year old as president AND maintain control, BE SUSPICIOUS! Another solution inspired by "THE BOSS" "Hey Robbie, we only want the travel. Why don't you be the president and 80% owner." That's NOT what the Babson College textbooks said would happen.

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