[ceejayoz]

No, people used to do this a lot deliberately because of airline pricing oddities.

You'd book from your home airport --> your destination --> Tiny Airport X, then skip the second flight, because the price would often be much cheaper that way.

Called "skiplagging": https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190226-the-travel-tri...

[bialpio]

But that's not skipping the _first_ leg.