Originally Posted by
TabTraveller
These are US examples. I trust from your use of the word “period” that you are US based.
The UK has different laws to the US. The OP asked about a flight to the UK and departing the UK so your examples are not only irrelevant but misleading.
As per my post, this is simply not an issue in the UK (or Europe almost certainly given the similarity in consumer law).
I am Canadian, thank you. I would suggest you be more careful before labelling people.
One of the links was from the BBC, which last time I checked was UK based. The article cites a case where Lufthansa took action against customers following the practice, which is in Europe last time I checked... Did you even bother reading it?
Anyone entering a transaction with the intent to violate the terms of a transaction one agrees to at the time of purchase is fraudulent. Morally speaking above and before written laws. By one's honour alone this is fraudulent.
The fact that one does not agree with the terms set by in the contract of carriage does not entitle them to breach the rules and expect impunity. I will not get into a discussion about hidden city ticketing as I surmise you would not be open to a true discussion, but anyone with a basic understanding of airline flight ticketing understands why some longer connected flights are more expensive than the single leg flight, so it would be a waste of wear on my keyboard to continue.
Carry on.