Originally Posted by
samyoull
The prevalence of students selling each other nonrefundable tickets suggests that often airlines do not, in fact, know who is on their plane.
The stupidness of most of them posting in FB marketplace giving the flight number and (in most cases) their real name on their profile means Air NZ offload a small number of people caught doing this as they just keep an eye on FB marketplace and a few other groups and flag the ticket for further checks. It wouldn't surprise me if JQ do the same thing.
Why people think they will get away with this is beyond me, but I presume many don't realise they're breaking the law. I know somebody who got caught last year after buying one of these tickets.
With every NZ ticket refundable at present there are no real excuses for trying to sell a ticket and for people to break CAA rule by traveling on somebody else's ticket.