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> Plus, you can only book these one way because if you throw away anything other than the last flight in your itinerary the rest of the trip gets cancelled. I
by zugi 3y ago
> Plus, you can only book these one way because if you throw away anything other than the last flight in your itinerary the rest of the trip gets cancelled.
I did the round trip once - well 3/4 trip anyway - back when I was a poor student. I woke up really early to board a bus for a 3 hour drive to a faraway city, where I then boarded a plane that less than an hour later had me back in my originating city (the airline's main "hub.") There I changed flights and continued on to my destination. On the return segment days later, however, I left at the midpoint and went home. This cost several hundred dollars less than the more direct alternative.
Airlines tend to overcharge at their hub cities because they face little competition.
I don't see this as a moral quandary either way, it's more like counting cards at Blackjack: the casinos don't want you to do it but it's not illegal, so if you can do it successfully, great. But if you get caught you have to pay the price.
- thebruce87m 3y agoHow do you not get caught? Surely they notice when you are not on the last flight?
- zugi 3y agoI mean I do feel a little bad in retrospect, there was probably some gate agent announcing "last call for passenger 'zugi'", and then they finally closed the doors and took off. I was sitting at home by then. There are hundreds of reasons why passengers miss flights, so I'm not sure how I'd get "caught".
- thebruce87m 3y agoI suppose there is no obligation for either party to follow up after the fact, and even so you could give a “legitimate” reason - although if it’s in the contract I wonder what legitimate reason they would deem ok?
- ceejayoz 3y agoThere are quite a few legitimate reasons you might miss a flight leg. The folks that get caught doing this tend to get caught only after doing it repeatedly.
- dylan604 3y agopeople miss their flights for various reasons every day