Originally Posted by
QueenOfCoach
If you go to court and fight, you would have to hire a lawyer to defend yourself. The airline already has lawyers on their payroll who do this kind of thing all the time, routinely. Your cost for a lawyer could run into thousands of dollars and negate the savings you have accrued on airfare.
The airlines have all kinds of other ways to deal with you, besides getting a court judgement against you. They can, for example, ban you from their flights.
The very least they will do is confiscate your miles. The way airfares are structured there are numberless cases where A -> B -> C tickets are cheaper than A -> B tickets, which is why the airlines have revenue protection units to identify and punish cheaters. I would say you are engaging is very high-risk behavior in pursuit of comparatively minor benefits.