Originally Posted by kai1
Thanks for the info.
Sorry, I didn't find anything on the search facility (am in Cambodia too and internet is slow enough without waiting for a search).
Anyway, yes I understand about the 10 per cent penalty, that is in my travel agent's conditions and also in, for example, the online conditions for British Airways.
What I, and I know others too, don't get is that how we can be expected to pay for the point to point fares if there is no notice of those on the conditions I was given when I purchased the ticket (and I certainly can't see anything about point to point fares in that, just the stuff about the 10 per cent penalty which is fair enough). As far as I know, in English law at least, you are bound by terms and conditions which you agree to and have notice of when you buy a ticket!
Sorry if this seems like a basic thing to you guys, but I am a round the world ticket virgin and have no idea about all this! And I certainly wouldn't recommend them to anyone else after all the nitty gritty that you have to know about it.
When you buy a ticket and fly a flight you are somehow bound by the Conditions of Carriage or whatever the airline calls it. You are supposed to read it, just like you're supposed to read the back of your car rental contract. The fact that no one does is probably no excuse.
As to that 10% penalty that seems like it may be a bargain - if I understand it, what they're saying is if you paid USD10000 for an AOWE3 and didn't finish it, the first thing the airline is going to do is credit you with $ 9000 - 10% less than you paid. Then they're going to add up the point to point fares for the segments you've already flown to see how much you owe them. If all you've done is flown the first segment - say LAX-LHR - the airline will charge you the one way first-class fare, and if it happens to be less than $9000 will give you the difference. If you've flown more segments (or even that one - I don't really know the unrestricted fares) you will end up owing the airline big bucks - minus that $9000 of course.
It's your choice - you "probably" won't get caught (except that the airlines do read flyertalk.)