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Old Nov 7, 2011 | 4:18 pm
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Originally Posted by OzJohnno
We've been back from our European Adventure in September for a month and all of our inter-European flights were booked as return (because of the ridiculous cost of one way fares) and we didn't use any of the return tickets and there was no repercussions from the airlines. If airlines want to cost one way fares at over twice the price of a return fare then people like me are going to continue to book return and just forget about the return leg.
No idea what the Contract of Carriage was for your tix inta-European, but as others note in this thread and all over FT, don't do it on a repeat basis in the USA. Pretty sophisticated software to "sniff" our fraud and the carriers take it seriously.

In addition to refaring each ticket, they will also zero out your FF account if you used one and that gets ugly.
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