Originally Posted by
tanmtl
I need a one way ticket but as always it's much cheaper to buy a return ticket.
The fare rule allows me to stay 12 months at my destination and I am going to book with a very complex routine on the return leg, hoping for a schedule change.
The ticket is actually only €7, and fuel charges and taxes....
Will LH recalculate the fare as it was two one way flights and refund me (then it will be €0) even if LH changes or cancels the return leg?
Have done this before.
Once exactly with the same intention. Since it was actually a heavily discounted full-flex ticket, it wasn't even very pricey and could simply cancel the return flight after I flew my first leg. No problems, got the expected amount back, which was c. 50% of the total.
Another time, I wasn't able to fly the return flight. It wasn't a flexible ticket though, but as far as I recall, they still had the covid rules in place that allowed for free changes if the respective bucket was still available. So, I rang CS and moved the return flight as much as possible into the future, while still picking a date on which I theoretically could also use it (without having any travel plans of course, but you never know). Wasn't a complex routing, just one layover. But assuming that the seasonal schedule changes would evidently change something, I thought this will do the job. It eventually happened and I could simply cancel the return flight. Again with c. 50% of the total reimbursed.
So, this does work. But of course, there is always a small risk that your itinerary and schedule remains unchanged and then you may have an issue.