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Re:Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after co... by SilasX on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:41PM (#34460361)
Right. It’s an issue when you buy a ticket from A to C with an A-B and B-C leg, and you get off in B. The ticket might be cheaper (than A-B) because the airline is competing with a direct A-C flight.

But it it’s just A-B and B-A and you don’t take the return flight, no one cares. (I’ve even gotten flack for notifying the airline as a courtesy…)

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after co... by pxx on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:00PM (#34460599)
For one-way markets what you have is true. For round-trip markets, typically internationally, what you have is not.

E.g. LAX-NRT on 3/2 on UA 32 is $966 right now. Add a return flight on 3/9 and the flight _drops_ to $893.

I'd be surprised any airline gave you flak for telling them you were missing a segment. They might try to charge you more (!).

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Re:Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico after co... by dwaite on Friday January 20, 2023 @05:07PM (#34460709)
> I'd be surprised any airline gave you flak for telling them you were missing a segment. They might try to charge you more (!).

They do indeed, including trip change fees. For myself, I luckily got an agent who was nice enough to ignore what I had told her.

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