Any repercussions for purchasing a round trip ticket and only flying one way? The plane ticket is cheaper round trip vs one way.....
Chow...despite my newness...I know that you will always be linked to vivi...I am sorry...good luck to your new moniker.
If you don't care about status with an airline and won't be flying with them again then it probably won't matter. You won't be put on a blacklist or anything like that. When you get to your destination at least do the gentlemanly thing and call the airline to tell them something came up and you will not be using the return ticket.
F that. First, he's going to stand in some long-*ss line that curls around the damn airport like a piece of dog-turd. Then they're going to charge him extra for sticking his bag in the cargo area of the plane where it's supposed to go. Then they'll overbook his flight and ask people to stay behind, even though they paid for a damn seat. After delaying the take-off time twice, they're going to stick him in some hallow steel tube made in 1970 and shove his knees up the ass of the guy in front of him, with the same god forsaken copy of sky mall from three years ago, a pretzel, and two sips of water he'll have to count his blessings for. Then lose his luggage on the other side and deny him a refund for the return leg of the trip. And you're proposing, that for this "service," he notify them in advance that they'll have an empty seat, so they can turn around and sell it to someone else and make double? F that. What you SHOULD do is check in online for the return flight and make them waste half an hour calling you to the gate when you're nowhere near the stupid building.
If you purchase a ticket, and only use the front end of it, you need to call the airline and cancel the back end, or else you will get flagged in their system. DD
Of course, in your effort to "get back" at the airline you are just pissing off the 250 other people on that flight waiting to leave. The only thing that "could" happen (I have just read about this and have never heard of it actually happening) is that if the airline realizes you aren't using both legs of your ticket they may actually charge you the difference in price between the one-way fair and the round-trip retroactively. What you are doing is similar to where you buy a one-stop ticket to somewhere but you actually want to go to the stop and not the final destination because, for whatever reason, the ticket was cheaper to the final destination than to the stop. Go figure. I've read some airlines will actually charge you (after the fact) for the price of the fair to the stop if they realize that's what you did! Air Fare Game - They Get Off Early to Get Off Cheap - LA Times
Bear in mind that this article is 22 years old. Airlines have changed their business practices quite a bit since then.
I once tried doing that. I skipped the first leg of the trip b/c the delay was too long. (I think flying from Houston to Austin). So I drove up to Austin, instead of waiting 3 hours. But then when I went to board the plane in Austin, they told me my ticket had been cancelled b/c I never boarded the first part of the journey. I was a little upset.
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