Originally Posted by ExAAerOnDL

But if you trick the airline into selling you a fare which requires a Saturday night stay when you don't have a Saturday night stay, you've committed fraud.



Logically irrelevant example. The terms of the sale are not that you use all the toothpaste before the sale is over. The terms of the sale of a round-trip ticket with a Saturday night stay requirement are that you stay Saturday night at your destination (which in the back-to-back ticketing fraud, is really your origin). You can't compare an example where the consumer complies with all terms of sale with one where they don't.



Yes. If the airline could do better financially by letting you by the two back-to-backs, it would let you book them. But they have not made that decision. Rather, they established rules. If you don't like them, don't fly that airline. That's how a free market economy works. It does not work by using fraud as a form of self-help.



It depends on the terms of sale. If it was a non-refundable ticket and you didn't change it before the departure time of the first coupon, yes. If it's a fully refundable ticket and the terms allow you to no-show, then no. Again, why do you believe that you have a right to just ignore contracts? Or defraud sellers into entering into one with you based on a false premise.



So is it neither fraudulent nor immoral to buy a youth subway card and then use it as an adult? I mean, the youth fare is available, and who cares if you're not eligible for it because you're not a minor? I assume you're avoiding answering this question because you cannot.



I happen to think freedom of contract and general ethics and integrity are good causes. Call me old-fashioned.