Originally Posted by
Allvest
Hotels have promotional weekend rates requiring friday or saturday stay overs. So if i book and pay for two nights but only stay one and leave the bed empty the second, it's none of their business. I bought the room. With back to backs, the airline can even sell my unused seat last minute if they want.
It is a basic consumer right to bargain for the best deal made available.
First, in a back-to-back ticketing scheme for two round-trips, you use all coupons. And even in hidden-city or throwaway ticketing, the airline isn't going to know you are no-showing until the very last minute. Not a lot of walk-up traffic 10 minutes before departure. And frankly, at full Y, they'll usually oversell the seat and take a volunteer.
Second, it is your right to bargain for the best deal available. But bargain is defined as "an agreement between parties settling what
each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other." It's a two-way street. When you lie to them and tell them you want to stay Saturday night that's not a "bargain." That's fraud.