<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jetsetter:
It sounds crazy to me not to put your frequent flyer number in to a record where you will only use the one way porition of the ticket. Can anyone even dredge up one actual example where an airline penalized a pax for throwing away the return part of a single ticket? I thought I was paranoid 
, but I think this tops paranoia. If you don't use your return ticket, it is gravy for the airline. Normally you have 30 days to return on most fares, but if you found a sympathetic agent they might let you use the other half of the ticket say 11 months later, but you would probably have to pay the change fee.</font>
I totally agree. Unless you're a habitual abuser, the airlines don't have the manpower, money and will to do anything about this. This somehow became some sort of a urban legend type thing. It's possible they would do something, if you were doing this every week, let's say buying a R/T from A to B with Saturday stay and you only used one way on a Monday and then had another R/T from B to A again with Saturday stay required and only used the first part again on the same week Friday, then yes, maybe they would go after you if you were doing this for few weeks. A one time dumping would not even be a beep on their tariff police radar.