Originally Posted by
neotope
This is interesting and silly at the same time. I wonder what the actual legal implications would be of this. Obviously the Revenue Protection people have no authority to force someone on a flight.
I can't think of a great example but let's say I went to a restaurant and ordered a three course meal at a discount - appetizer, main and dessert. Let's also say if I ordered the appetizer and the main separately that they would be more expensive compared to the three course meal I got at a discount. Now if I tell the waitress I don't want the dessert are they going to force me to eat it or charge me the price difference?
I think a better example is a restaurant where you have a choice of all-you-can-eat Sushi (fish and rice rolls) for $20 and all-you-can-eat Sashimi (fish by itself, no rice) for $30. You order the sushi but pick off all the rice and eat order after order of fish. The restaurant then wants to charge you an extra $10 since you really didn't eat sushi, you ate sashimi.
Not saying I condone the industry's weird pricing methods, nor that I condone trying to exploit hidden city ticketing--- I genuinely see both sides of this debate-- just trying to give a real-world example that might be a better fit. You're basically throwing away the unwanted part of your purchase in order to get the more expensive thing, which isn't the thing you agreed to buy. Airlines are weird
