Just looked at flights on Malev from Amsterdam to Budapest. Only want one-way. Sooo much cheaper to book a round trip ticket ($144 US vs. $584 US for one way). But we would only use the outward going flight. Would that be a problem?

Oops - that's $155 US for R/T.

No problem, go ahead and do it.

The only time that there could be even a hint of a problem is if you bought two round-trips, using just the first half of each one, to avoid some sort of minimum-stay or Saturday-night-stay requirement.

Don

Other than losing out on frequent flier miles, the risk is minimal.

what could they possibly do to you, send the police? Some people could be sick or even die before the return, after all.

I've done it.

I've done it too. The only way it wouldn't work is if you wanted to use the <i>return</i> portion only. In that case, they would cancel your itinerary when you didn't show up for the outbound flight.

I just did it! Had no idea (always learning) how much more the one way would be to get from Paris to Rome to continue my trip. Ended up booking a RT ...will not use return, and will "put it on hold for up to one year". As you said soooo much cheaper!

We've had this discussion before here but not involving an airline like Malev and yes it's an international flight and I don't know how you bought the ticket.

Technically (note the word technically) you are in violation of the airline tariff rules. An airline ticket is like a contract they agree to fly you on the itinerary you buy the ticket for. I understand times have changed. Years ago, people bought tickets from travel agents and sometimes, airlines would be able to track this and debit the agency and put the agency in the position of either losing the money or trying to collect. But yes that's a long time ago.

So...you bought the ticket on the internet. I believe that beore the transaction is completed you agree to the terms of the tariff. If (and it's a big word if) the airline discovers this breach of contract, since you agreed to their tariff, they could try to debit your credit card. Is it likely? Probably not...so....go for it!

This would be through the Malev airline website.

Yes, I thought about if - we got sick, or something else happened, and we couldn't use the return portion of the ticket (hypothetically). I'm sure it happens legitimately. How would they know that I bought this just to save money?

I think I remember a few years ago some American airline expert, I forget his name, writing that one could do this although the airlines would not b happy. (He had done it multiple times.) Yet, they would not be able to do anything about it.