Legality of not using return portion of airline tickets?

What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?

On Oct 13, 11:03 am, "fideauxdon" wrote:
What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?

You will likely be upgraded if you buy oneway so why not consider it?
No. The airline cannot do anything about not using the return portion.

fideauxdon wrote:
What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?

It would be in something titled "terms and conditions" or some
similar name. I'd be dubious that they would try, unless you made
a habit of this. On such an international ticket "legal" would be
a vague concept. It'd be an issue of contract law where ever
the contract was considered to be in force.

wrote:

fideauxdon wrote:

What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?


It would be in something titled "terms and conditions" or some
similar name. I'd be dubious that they would try, unless you made
a habit of this. On such an international ticket "legal" would be
a vague concept. It'd be an issue of contract law where ever
the contract was considered to be in force.


Of course since the return flight is probably not refundable if you
happen to miss the return flight you probably have complied with the
contract. They would have to try to prove that you actually intended to
make a one way flight.

fideauxdon wrote:
What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?


It would be a contract violation, not a crime. Even so, it would be
difficult to prove and not really worth the trouble.
It might also be possible to find a consolidator that can get you a one
way ticket for a lower price.

I've adopted/got a philosophical concept/position, school, and/or term
for such ordinary phenomena:

Absurdism


fideauxdon wrote:
What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?

fideauxdon wrote:
What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?

If you pay by credit card the airline can legally charge you for the
cost of an unrestricted one way ticket as you violated the terms of
your contract. There have been stories of them doing just that.

Tchiowa wrote:

If you pay by credit card the airline can legally charge you for the
cost of an unrestricted one way ticket as you violated the terms of
your contract. There have been stories of them doing just that.

Why they don't just copy the low-costs and charge half the return price
for a single (effectively selling everything as singles) I will never
work out. It's a far better method of yield management.

Neil

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Tchiowa wrote:

fideauxdon wrote:
What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?

If you pay by credit card the airline can legally charge you for the
cost of an unrestricted one way ticket as you violated the terms of
your contract. There have been stories of them doing just that.


What contract would that be? I don't recall ever signing a contract
with any airline, nor have I ever seen terms in any agreement that
require me to actually use any part of the ticket.

-Owen

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fideauxdon wrote:
What is the legality of booking a round-trip international airline
ticket, and not using the return portion?
I found a Venice-to-NYC round-trip fare in April 2007 on British
Airways for about $600. I only want to uses the first part of the trip.
A one-way fare from Venice to NYC is over $750. If I don't use the
return portion, can the airline legally charge me the one-way fare
after the fact?

If you pay by credit card the airline can legally charge you for the
cost of an unrestricted one way ticket as you violated the terms of
your contract.

No they can't, because to do this they have to show that
you intended to miss the return flight when you bought
the ticket.

They cannot surchage you just for missing a flight.

There have been stories of them doing just that.

I suspect that you may be confusing other instances of
people being surcharged for other ticket irregularities.

tim