Originally Posted by
GYEWorldTraveler
Well this post just shows what is wrong in this world. What you are supporting is highly unethical but more and more people seem to be doing it. Just because many people do this does not make it right.......Just because Delta acts unethically (in many ppl here on FTs minds) does not justify acting unethically yourself. There is a right way to save money and a wrong way to do it, I hope you understand what I am saying.
Putting the moral high ground aside, one might say that the legacy airline pricing models, which can run the gamut from simply asinine to downright ridiculous, are almost as bad as the anti-consumer penalties that the company getting your business wants to charge you for daring to find a better deal.
Without trying to go too far OT, but WN really has it right here in their policy on "hidden city ticketing". And they're about the only ones. So for all that I dislike about WN (and there is much), I give them serious kudos for this.
To charge twice as much to fly only half the way is a concept fairly unique to the air industry. A throwback to the years before de-regulation, one might argue.
Originally Posted by
FlyingHigh20
Let's not spread fallacies here - Delta CAN NOT charge you retro-actively for a fare they feel is in line with what you flew. They claim they will threaten to do so - but there is no law to back this up nor a court who would approve such a claim.
Very true, times have changed, and more tickets are being bought directly from DL. Delta has no recourse outside of a court filing to "chargeback" a direct consumer for an "infraction" by not flying their whole itinerary. They can confiscate your SM et al. but I'd be interested to see what would happen if DL was to just charge your credit card for the higher fare.
I suspect that the legacy airlines would really rather not (in this apparent pro-consumer era insofar as the DOT goes) have their perceived anti-consumer penalties dragged through a big debate.