Originally Posted by
lost*in*cyberspace
About a year ago, I bought my DIL a one way ticket on UA, JFK-CDG (didn't buy the return ticket because she didn't know when she was coming back to the states) and at the airport, she was asked to prove that she had a return ticket. I had to use award miles to get her a return ticket before she could check in for her flight. At that time, she was traveling on a French passport and was in the US on a student visa.
That's weird, why would somebody with a French passport have to prove they had a ticket to leave France?