Originally Posted by
LHR/MEL/Europe FF
sorry - I should have clarified that! You are required to show a return or onwards ticket if you don't have citizenship/residency in the country you are flying to. I guess this is so that if you are refused immigration clearance on arrival and the airline has to fly you back they don't lose any money (they just take the value of your return ticket!)
I understand all the stuff about immigration/residency/visas, stay limitations, etc. etc. so the airline doesn't get fined and have to return the passenger at airline expense. But this doesn't really answer the question I posed above. And the part of your answer (that I bolded) makes no sense at all, on a variety of levels.
Not meaning to sound like a challenge, I'm really curious about this. Maybe somebody else has an inkling? How would mainline Qantas deal with this?