Using two way return ticket as one way and no-showing in the return
Sep 4, 2016, 8:41 pm
#1
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Using two way return ticket as one way and no-showing in the return
LATAM seems to charge double for one way tickets than the price of return tickets, so to cut the story short, is it possible to buy a return ticket, fly the inbound, and do not show up to the outbound, without penalties such as charging the difference afterwards, etc?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
Sep 5, 2016, 12:27 pm
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Yes, this is a normal thing to do to avoid horrendous o/w fares all over the world. The only time you should be worried about doing this is if you fly the same route every week for years, always dropping a leg to get a lower fare. Only then might an airline "have a word" with you. But there is nothing "illegal" about missing the final leg.
Sep 6, 2016, 9:41 am
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LATAM seems to charge double for one way tickets than the price of return tickets, so to cut the story short, is it possible to buy a return ticket, fly the inbound, and do not show up to the outbound, without penalties such as charging the difference afterwards, etc?
Thanks in advance!
Thanks in advance!
If you skip the first one, many airlines will cancel the second one (does LAN never do this?), and so you cannot take the second if you skipped the first one.
So to use this trick, you must book the roundtrip starting with the outbound flight you will actually take, and it's the inbound (returning flight) you can skip.
Now maybe that's you what meant, but you said fly inbound (which is the second one), and skip outbound (which is the first one). You have to fly out of an airport before you can fly back in to that same airport, so outbound is the first flight and inbound is the second flight.