| Christina |
Oct 25th, 2000 01:49 PM |
That's amazing, I've never seen that big a difference but there's nothing they can do to you if you don't use the return ticket (they can get mad if they find you jump plane in the middle of a flight at a connecting point rather than going to the end, in order to get a cheaper ticket; in that case, they can cancel your return portion if it's RT). I don't understand this at all as what do they care if you've bought the ticket for the same price and just don't sit in the seat to the end point, makes zero sense to me, but that's what I've read. Anyway, I've bought RT tickets London-Paris and the agency even knew I wasn't coming back to London, they just told me to buy it that way as it was a lot cheaper than a one-way fare, everybody does it. Anyway, what can they do--lots of people don't show up for flights for lots of reasons including just missing the flight, that's why they overbook and you could be dead for all they know. I suppose if you are a frequent flyer they could "punish" you some way by taking away miles, but I've never heard of that--if they were really mean I suppose they could charge your credit card number (if they have it) with some fare surcharge based on the one-way fare, but I have never heard of such a thing and suspect it would be illegal. I agree you shouldn't tell them you plan to do that when you buy it or they might not sell it to you. I wonder if this is due to some bizarre airline regulation because economically it makes no sense for them to price things that way; furthermore, if they stopped doing that, they could get a better idea of true volume and come closer to selling the correct number of tickets in the first place. I understand some pricing policies based on demand by market, so that prices are not related to distance necessarily, but this kind of pricing makes no sense to me. I wish there were some airline marketing person on here who could explain this strange pricing policy.
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