hidden-city

[ hid-n-sit-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

relating to or engaged in the practice of purchasing an air ticket for a flight with a layover at one’s true destination, getting off at the layover point, and skipping the last leg of the flight in order to avoid paying a higher fare for a direct flight to one’s destination: Compare skiplagging ( def ).
The website helps travelers find hidden-city itineraries.
Hidden-city ticketing is explicitly banned by some airlines’ terms of use.
Hidden-city travelers do not disclose their intentions even when booking through a third party.

First recorded in 1995–2000

He is writing a book about Cleveland for Knopf entitled The Hidden City.

For myself, I needed no additional proof that here was all that was needful to guide us to the hidden city.

There ain't any hidden city, or hidden treasure, or hidden d——n anything; it's all a fraud from beginnin' t' end.

From this entrance, as Pepe informed them, it was fifteen miles to the hidden city of Totatzine.

She penetrated alone the wildest thickets; the nests of timid birds were known to her; and she traced the bee to his hidden city.

Meaningless shouts and cries and songs resound from the hidden city.

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