Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
Why not?
"This is a special fare which requires a complete journey from initial origin to final destination and is based on the passenger completing the entire trip. Failure to complete the entire trip as ticketed will result in repricing those segments actually flown as one-way point-to-point flights in the cabin actually flown, which may result in a refund to, or additional collection from, the passenger."
If that were very clearly stated at time of purchase, and those one-way prices were available to the purchaser, perhaps. It's the open ended and opaque nature of airline pricing that seems to me to make this look very slippery, especially if these tickets are sold to consumers.
On a separate point, many one way fares do not allow themselves to be used for historical repricing of flown sectors. Many of BA's fares now include the condition that "FARES ONLY APPLY IF PURCHASED BEFORE DEPARTURE." After the sector is flown you essentially have an empty tariff with no price for that leg.