Save Money on Airfare by ‘Fuel Dumping’ (Maybe)

“The Economist’s” business travel blog, Gulliver, posted this video entry yesterday on fuel dumping. In this instance, fuel dumping isn’t what the F-111 pictured above is doing; it’s the practice of booking extra legs on a trip, which you don’t plan on taking, to trick airline-booking systems into offering you a much lower fare.