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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
OK. Planning to use my Continental miles to book a business class flight back from New York (its with Air Canada one of their partners) on a Saturday.
Excellent, so I though just book a one-way to go out on Wednesday = £700. |
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
"paulfoel" wrote in message news:20281732.638.1320781103227.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbay19... OK. Planning to use my Continental miles to book a business class flight back from New York (its with Air Canada one of their partners) on a Saturday. Excellent, so I though just book a one-way to go out on Wednesday = £700. The price of a return going on Wednesday (same flight) and returning Sunday is £350 !!!! Dont understand. Could I book the return, and my free miles flight, use the outward then just not use the return I paid for? Or would Continental suss something was up here and disallow it? ============================= Why not buy the round trip and use miles to upgrade? |
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
paulfoel wrote:
one-way to go out on Wednesday = £700. The price of a return going on Wednesday (same flight) and returning Sunday is £350 !!!! Dont understand. I didn't think that airlines still did that, but it was somewhat common in the past that the cost of a return ticket was cheaper than a one-way ticket. Could I book the return, and my free miles flight, use the outward then just not use the return I paid for? I'm not sure how your miles come into play here, but you can always abandon the return flight of a round-trip and not suffer any consequences from the airline. Or would Continental suspect something was up here and disallow it? How can they disallow it? You buy a 2-way return ticket knowing full well that you don't intend to use the return. They don't know that. You fly the out-bound leg as scheduled and you're done. You abandon the return leg and Continental (or rather, Air Canada) has an empty seat they can give to a stand-by customer. |
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
Fly Guy wrote:
How can they disallow it? Because it's in the tariff for the fare you purchased. You buy a 2-way return ticket knowing full well that you don't intend to use the return. They don't know that. You fly the out-bound leg as scheduled and you're done. You abandon the return leg and Continental (or rather, Air Canada) has an empty seat they can give to a stand-by customer. Theoretically they could bill or charge your credit card for the difference between a return and one way fare. Reality - as long as you aren't a frequent flyer on their airline, nothing will happen. Try to collect miles for that flight though and you may find your account forfeited. |
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
Theoretically they could bill or charge your credit card for the difference
between a return and one way fare. Reality - as long as you aren't a frequent flyer on their airline, nothing will happen. Try to collect miles for that flight though and you may find your account forfeited. I would be most interested to hear of an actual case where this happened, i.e., losing miles for flights someone actually took or other retaliation for missing segments. FOAP rumors don't count. R's, John |
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
Costs more this way with co-pay costs for the upgrade
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
Apparently there was a court case in the US where an airline took someones miles off them. Passenger won.
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
Apparently there was a court case in the US where an airline took
someones miles off them. Passenger won. I would be very interested in actual reports of people losing miles or money or anything else, rather than third hand rumors. I've looked and never found anything beyond someone said someone else said ... etc. I have heard cases about nested back-to-back flights but that's different. R's, John |
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
On 11/8/2011 11:38 AM, paulfoel wrote:
OK. Planning to use my Continental miles to book a business class flight back from New York (its with Air Canada one of their partners) on a Saturday. Excellent, so I though just book a one-way to go out on Wednesday = £700. The price of a return going on Wednesday (same flight) and returning Sunday is £350 !!!! Dont understand. Could I book the return, and my free miles flight, use the outward then just not use the return I paid for? Or would Continental suss something was up here and disallow it? There is no requirement to use the return flight. You might want to call and tell them, once you reach your destination, that you are staying longer than you had planned and will use the return some other time and pay the change fee. |
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Return cheaper than a single??? LON-NYC
SMS wrote:
Could I book the return, and my free miles flight, use the outward then just not use the return I paid for? Or would Continental suss something was up here and disallow it? There is no requirement to use the return flight. You need to read the original question more carefully. We all know that a transportation company can't force you onto (or into) their vehicles just because you bought a ticket. The question is - can an airline retro-actively change your ticket price (and hence put an additional charge on your credit card) when you fail to make your return flight as specified on your return ticket? The additional charge being the difference in cost between a one-way vs round-trip itinerary. The fine print on many tickets seems to indicate they have taken this scenario into account and they claim it as their right to do so (to charge you). The question remains - do they *really* do this - at least on a regular or systematic basis? You might want to call and tell them, once you reach your destination, that you are staying longer than you had planned and will use the return some other time and pay the change fee. Many people in this situation (and I believe the OP as well) are really only seeking a 1-way ticket, but they notice that a return ticket costs less (sometimes much less) and so they buy the return ticket with no intention of using the return flight. So your advice in that situation is meaningless. I would even argue that it's best NOT to call the airline after your out-bound trip is completed and say that you're not going to make the return flight, because by telling this directly to an agent (who is sitting at a computer looking at your booking) it's obvious that you run an extreme risk of them pressing the right keys that WILL result in your itinerary being converted into a 1-way ticket and being billed accordingly. You've got nothing to gain by making that call. |
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