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Jan 6, 2020, 5:16 am

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fuyao

Join Date: Oct 2013

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Keter

I just found a GF memo to agents prohibiting addition of 'offline' segments in order to decrease fuel surcharges. Dated April 2019. Instead f fixing the logic like others they feed the examples to agents but then warn of possible ADMs too

The memo is Russian but you can use web translation to read it.

https://helpdesk.avia-centr.ru/help-...perevozchikov/

Added - some further info in English

https://aviacenter.ru/en/news/2019/0...line-segments/

You'll find similar paragraphs in the ticketing policies of each earlines guidebook.
They do not offen mention 3x specifically but all state that the fare will be recalculated based on the flown segments.

Thats why you should never book a tricked itin in your own GDS / airlines website otherwise the airline can come after you, always best to book via OTA.
Here is a review of LH sueing a passenger who booked on the lufthansa website directly and skipping the final segment (FRA-ARN), they sued the passenger for the fare difference but lost. If the pax had booked with an OTA and not directly with the airline, LH wouldnt have been able to sue him.
https://www.franz.de/kanzlei/news/sa...ber-lufthansa/

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