Originally Posted by
orbitmic
Neither: I'm saying that because it was the way it was resolved in the case that went to Court in Germany and which led to airlines having to allow people to fly non sequentially from there (though I didn't realise KL included that from all countries, not just Germany but I don't really see why they should do it differently, especially if it means surrendering something that benefits them for no reason).
Was it KL that went to court or was it the luftwaffe, because so far as I know AFKL is the only airline with this stipulation in their CoC.
I just checked the LH CoC and they specifically state that the fare will be repriced if you skip a segment, as described in your post (
https://www.lufthansa.com/xx/en/busi...conditions-1#4 section 3.3.3):
3.3.3. If you have chosen a fare that requires observance of a fixed ticket sequence, please note that if carriage is not used on all individual legs or not used in the sequence specified on the ticket with otherwise unchanged travel data, we will recalculate the fare according to your amended routing. The airfare will thereby be determined in accordance with the fare you would have had to pay for your actual routing in your price group on the day of your booking. This fare may be higher or lower than the fare you originally paid.
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If, on the day of the booking for your altered routing, a higher fare would have been determined, we will subsequently collect the difference taking into account the fare already paid. Please note that we may make carriage dependent on whether you have paid this difference in price.
(I find it interesting btw that LH does not carve out an exception for force majeure, except for Austrian residents, nor for people who legitimately missed their flight and bought a replacement flight.)