Back-To-Back Ticketing: Booking two overlapping round trips with opposite origin and destination points, where both bookings meet restrictions required to obtain a discount fare (such as a saturday-night stayover); then using one segment from each round trip for each direction of a single journey in order to get a lower overall fare.

 

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Back-To-Back Ticketing: Booking two overlapping round trips with opposite origin and destination points, where both bookings meet restrictions required to obtain a discount fare (such as a saturday-night stayover); . . . View Full Definition

Split Ticketing: Issuing two one-way tickets instead of a round-trip ticket, usually for purpose of obtaining a lower fare.

Hidden-City Ticketing: Another airline no-no; buying a ticket from a to c with a stop in b. The passenger gets off at b, which was the intended destination anyway. The ticket is purchased because the fare from a t . . . View Full Definition

Back-To-Back Financing: An intercompany loan channeled through a bank.