How to Use Hidden City Ticketing to Save on Flights

The most popular advice about hidden city ticketing is also the least useful: find a cheap connection, get off early, and enjoy the savings. That skips the part that matters. Airlines prohibit the practice in their contracts of carriage, irregular operations can destroy the plan, and one missed segment can cancel everything that follows. Hidden city ticketing can work, but only when the fare logic, itinerary design, luggage plan,...