Buy round trip but abandon return leg?
Oct 26, 2019, 9:49 pm
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Buy round trip but abandon return leg?
I’m debating to buy a round trip ticket but may abandon the return leg because one way ticket with Air France is expensive from USA. Is it okay or not? I have never done this before. If there’s a trick to buy one way ticket with airfrance please let me know as well.
Oct 26, 2019, 10:16 pm
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Use FB miles?
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Oct 27, 2019, 8:12 am
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What is your concern? If you ask the airline, of course they would say it's not ok. But it's unlikely there will be a consequence for you.if you do it.
Oct 27, 2019, 11:32 am
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The common wisdom and experience is - if you do this occasionally, they won't go after it. If structurally, I believe they have this clause that they can charge a penalty. But I have done this throw-away ticketing on an occasional basis and never had a problem. And yes, as one of the other posters suggested, using miles (if you have them) for a one way is often of the best value to spent them. Since you apparently want to fly US-France, a night flight, consider biz (again, if you have the miles). Did that once when I had to piece together a round-the world thing with meetings in Paris, Japan, and Mexico. For Paris-Japan and Japan-Mex I could find decently priced one ways. Could not find a decent priced MEX-NL ticket and used miles for a biz flight (while the organisation inviting me gave a lump sum compensation for travel and the like). When I book award tickets, it is very often on one-ways.
Oct 28, 2019, 3:27 am
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a friend of mine who started recently going to DUS quite often for work for 1 or 2 days max uses this "trick" often and takes the return instead of one way. He comes back with train sometimes or another return flight. He even call the elite line and asks for tax refund and he gets it without any problem. I was surprised. I actually told him before this that he should not ask for tax refund not to alert them he is doing this but he did it 4 times this month already and got 20 euros back from each flight (100 euros return ticket).
Oct 28, 2019, 8:44 am
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a friend of mine who started recently going to DUS quite often for work for 1 or 2 days max uses this "trick" often and takes the return instead of one way. He comes back with train sometimes or another return flight. He even call the elite line and asks for tax refund and he gets it without any problem. I was surprised. I actually told him before this that he should not ask for tax refund not to alert them he is doing this but he did it 4 times this month already and got 20 euros back from each flight (100 euros return ticket).
They even searched for the the best date for the return so that the ticket is cheaper.
They all find it illogical that a RT ticket can be cheaper than an OW.
Indeed, a return cheaper than 2 OW makes sense, but a RT cheaper than ONE OW is not right.