Originally Posted by
nufnuf77
That is incorrect. No-show fee is charged as collect (similar to change or cancel fee) when changing ticket you no-showed for. EG ticket 4,000 each way. No show fee 2,000. You consciously miss inbound. You however 3 months later decide you want to fly inbound. If same class etc... is still available you will be able to fly inbound for 2,000-4,000+new portion of inbound fare = so potentially for 2,000 collect you could fly return. this might be less then a single inbound booked separately.
It is worthless to argue what is right or wrong. The fact is an airline has already done this:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lufth...163631737.html
So be my guest if you want to risk it. This is a risk that you can't ignore.
Originally Posted by
nufnuf77
There is no legal basis to charge no-show fee in addition to non-flown leg if you are not re-using the ticket value!
But there is a legal basis to ban the passenger given the passenger abused the system.