Originally Posted by
irishguy28
The agent dealing with your case may have a different take.
On top of this "flat fee" to revive the ticket, they may also decide to charge the fare difference for the journey now actually being flown. Particularly when the "missed" sector is the very first sector, and the passenger made no attempt to contact the airline in advance and gave every appearance as only ever intending to depart from CDG rather than from BCN, I think you will run into issues over and above this flat fee.
We can argue this point this way and that, and a lot may depend upon the agent in question; however, I really do not think it is an advisable strategy to consider that buying ex-BCN tickets and only ever commencing your travel at CDG will consistently lead to this fee being considered a perfectly "legal" way to depart from CDG while using the prices set for the BCN market.
Agree it would probably not work in practice, however would it make sense to force a pax to pay a penalty for flying segments out-of-sequence on top of the repricing? [Yes, I know airline ticket pricing is not something that makes sense...]