The airline ultimately canceled his ticket, and his family had to pay for a new, more expensive flight to get him home. With that cautionary tale in mind, here's a breakdown of what skiplagging is ...

The results show that each airline assigns a similar average value to reward points today — around 1.1 cent per mile for most economy class tickets, as well as luxury classes on domestic routes ...

Also called "skiplagging," the practice involves buying multi-stop airline tickets with layovers in a desired destination, then ditching the second flight. Savvy fliers look for these kinds of ...

Airline tickets have never been this expensive. Or confusing. The price of airline tickets has soared by 25% in the last year, the biggest jump since the Federal Reserve of St. Louis began ...