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May 31, 2019 | 1:29 pm

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Originally Posted by Calchas

(It's also not clear to me that a sum of one way fares will always be a valid way of calculating a cost of an itinerary. Several carriers no longer allow their fares to be used end-on-end in an unrestricted way.)

Haven't done any RTWs since I left BA, but the way I do this for partially used tkts issued by my current agency where used A-B-C will no longer price as a combined oneway fares, is to find the lowest applicable split tkt A-B and B-C oneways and add those together. It doesn't leave much over, if anything…

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Originally Posted by Dr. HFH

If the fare for the transportation used exceeds the fare paid, then there would (could?) be a negative refund, -- an additional collection.

I've not known Refunds departments to chase adcols - in my experience there's simply no refund due and that's the end of it.

There are the cases in the US of frequent hidden city ticketing abusers receiving invoices or suspension of their FF programme membership, and of BA sending debit memos to travel agents who have issued ex-EU tickets of which the last leg regularly gets thrown away, but I'm not aware of any such invoices/ADMs for partially used RTWs.

Bear in mind that the RTW is valid for a year and has a nosho fee; the last coupon could hypothetically still be used up to max validity, so any audit would have to wait until after the ticket had expired. There are also many other ticket types that often have unused coupons left, and nothing happens with those.

I'm sure if airlines saw systemic abuse of the fares then they'd act, like with the examples I gave. OtherwiseI think it just looks like common usage/abandonment.