Any problem with Throwaway ticketing
 

I've booked a Korean Airlines reward flight from Seoul (GMP) to Tokyo (HND) in Business but now need to get to Seoul from Fukuoka.

A one-way flight on Korean Airlines would be $395 but it's also possible to book a return FUK-ICN tfor $222 saving over $100 per person.

Is there any problem with booking the return booking but just not showing up for the final ICN-FUK flight?

Have you looked at Jin Air or some of the other low-cost carriers? Their websites are atrocious, the last time I checked, and you'll likely need to use only Internet Explorer, but they could save you some significant money for a flight to ICN, then take a bus or the train to GMP which is a 30-minute ride away.

Yeh I have looked at some of them

Jin Air doesn't seem to have released prices up until December (which is when I want to fly) and Jeju Air is $308 so more expensive than even a single oneway on Asiana ($280) which kinda of rules them out.

The reason why I'm looking at either Asiana or Korean is because I'm traveling with friends who will also travel with me.

I've never thrown away a ticket on KE, but have twice on OZ. I simply called them up and told them that my schedule changed and I had to postpone my "return" trip, but didn't know the date yet. I imagine that there wouldn't be any problem to simply not show up, but being I fly them a lot didn't want any sort of negative marks on my record, if they even do such a thing. Another time they changed the "return" flight time earlier than when I'd purchased my ticket, and I informed them that my schedule didn't allow the earlier flight time, and they actually refunded me part of the ticket.

Ok I'll just go book it then.

As I said about Asiana, Korean Air also charges a no-show fee if you don't tell them in advance.

https://www.koreanair.com/global/en/...016_07_01.html

Once, I missed my flight TPE-ICN since I overslept (youth, alcohol haha) and I called them before departure. I even got an 80$ refund!

Does the no-show fee actually get billed to the passenger just for not showing up?

My understanding of no-show fees was that they are a sort of change fee / deduction against the value of your ticket, if you try to refund the remaining ticket value or apply the remaining ticket value to a new ticket after departure. But if you were going to throw away the remaining ticket value anyway, I don't think they charge the no-show fee to your credit card.

At the bottom of their page it says it is a penalty aka presumably extra money and "Re-issue/Refund may be applied separately." Instead of guessing here, just try asking their customer service center. BUT you should probably know the fare class of the ticket as they'll be digging through the T&C anyway (which you could also do if you have time to be very technical haha).

That's what people online seem to imply. They'll just charge your card or travel agent the no show fee and the only way to supposedly avoid this is by buying the ticket using cash at a KE office. I don't know how true this is but it's what people seem to suggest.

In the end I used the free 24 hour cancelation to cancel the planned throw away the ticket and then bought some SPG points (when they had the 35% sale), transferred to Delta and booked the same flight as a reward redemption for the same price (about $10 more pp) as the earlier throwaway ticket. Whilst I won't earn miles (only 100 miles anyway), it does give the benefit of being able to select a seat something which the cheap KE tickets don't allow.