Originally Posted by
CloudCoder
You save money by buying separate tickets, so the airline retaliates by incurring extra cost to add misery to your trip. It makes zero sense.
What's the next logical extension? If you found a bargain airfare, the airline hires someone to prick you with a needle every few minutes, to teach you a good lesson? Don't laugh: These two scenarios are one and the same. You saved money on tickets, so the airline spends extra money to make you miserable.
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No it doesn't. It simply gives you what you paid for. You get a trip from A-B plus one from B-C ; if you want a trip from A-C. the airline will quite happily sell it. If you have a ticket from A-B and want to change it to A-C, then unless it is a non-changeable ticket, it will happily change it for the appropriate fee
It isn't doing anything to make you miserable. If the drawbacks of 2 separate tckets make you miserable, then perhaps they are not for you
The customer may not be going hurrah at the drawbacks, but I spect there are a fair number feeling smug at saving money by knowing that the 2 tickets is cheaper than a through fare or being able to get a stopover without having to potentially pay for a higher through fare that allows stopovers