I had a free AF RT IAH-MUN via CDG.
On the return I was "stuck" in Nice and took an overnight train to CDG to connect back to the US - No one was the least bit concerned I missed the MUN-CDG segment.
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gotravel...i wholeheartedly agree....well said. haven't always agreed with you in the past! ;) clark, it appears you misunderstand the nature, or legalities of an airline ticket. you wouldn't have much luck suing the airline for that.

If the airline ever tried to charge you for a full fare ticket after you'd paid for an economy ticket and just not used the 2nd half, they would not be able to do it and could subject themselves to lawsuits. Even the all-powerful airlines cannot force you to use a ticket that you don't want to use, which is what the original post was all about.

As for people who continually bookend their tickets to get around the Saturday night stay...the airlines can stop you from flying on their airline and that's about IT. The rest is HOGWASH.

clarkgriswold, the airline if perfectly within their rights to charge you whatever fine and penalty they impose if you do not follow their terms.

By agreeing to the policy and terms the airline lays forth by purchasing the ticket, you are entering into a legal agreement with the carrier.

Read any airlines contract of carriage.

When they stop THREATENING to do that, and actually DO it, we'll see if they are perfectly within their rights, won't we????

clark, read the back of the ticket. it is a legal contract. and what you describe is a breach of contract.

I'll be the first person to admit I've never heard of an airline penalizing someone for only using 1/2 of a round trip ticket.

We all know that lawyers can write all of the legal contracts that they want to, but it doesn't mean that the contract is legally enforceable.

In court, an airline would have to ultimately prove that a one-way ticket is more valuable than a round-trip ticket. Good luck.