Originally Posted by
TravelBug3811
The itinerary I posted is only $168 (with a Saturday stay, which is what I always do)... half the price.
I'm surprised a Saturday night stay would matter, since fares like this are often matches of WN fares, in my experience they typically do not reqiure a round-trip purchase, just buy two one-way tickets if you can, then there's no risk of the Day 3 itinerary being cancelled because you missed your second Day 1 flight.
As for being caught, if you buy these tickets yourself from the airline, I'd say there is very little chance of that. Most of the airlines' enforcement of such practices is against travel agencies that book this for their clients, the airlines have contracts with the travel agencies that allow the fare differences to be relatively easily collected.