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Old Oct 28, 2019, 8:44 am
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carnarvon
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: France
Programs: FB Plat for Life, UAMP, BAEC, Accor ALL Platinum, Marriott silver, Hilton, Meliá silver.
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Originally Posted by newflyer27
a friend of mine who started recently going to DUS quite often for work for 1 or 2 days max uses this "trick" often and takes the return instead of one way. He comes back with train sometimes or another return flight. He even call the elite line and asks for tax refund and he gets it without any problem. I was surprised. I actually told him before this that he should not ask for tax refund not to alert them he is doing this but he did it 4 times this month already and got 20 euros back from each flight (100 euros return ticket).
The Plat line is definitely not shy when it comes to selling you a return ticket when it is cheaper than a OW.

They even searched for the the best date for the return so that the ticket is cheaper.

They all find it illogical that a RT ticket can be cheaper than an OW.

Indeed, a return cheaper than 2 OW makes sense, but a RT cheaper than ONE OW is not right.
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