I can't understand how it breaks the rules to miss a flight. It's like not eating part of your meal. Why are you required to take it?

Does it increase your chances of being on an airport terrorist watch list if you buy one way tickets or you don't complete all legs of your flight?

Yes they will cancel your second leg- you need two one ways. Not worth the hassle or worrying about- airline pricing stinks but it is what it is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is true in the US, too. I remember pricing a flight to Pittsburgh from DCA years ago on US Airways (which is a Pittsburgh hub).

It was $750 to fly and stop in Pittsburgh, but just $400 if I continued on to San Francisco. Absurd.

I wonder if you could have bought the SF-ticket and then just gotten off at Pittsburgh airport.....assuming you did not have any checked-in luggage...

I've been told your return ticket is cancelled.

You can do this is you buy 2 one way tickets. (not not too often.

Anonymous wrote:United is suing a 22 year old for starting a website to help travelers with this very issue:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/31/news/companies/skiplagged-raises-money-united-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Thanks, I may post this on off-topic to get more traction and funding....

United is suing a 22 year old for starting a website to help travelers with this very issue:

http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/31/news/companies/skiplagged-raises-money-united-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

OP here, just updating this thread with a relevant article in today:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-31/united-and-orbitz-lawsuit-against-skiplaggedcom-raises-ethical-questions

Anonymous wrote:The second airport may be subsidizing the flight in some way. You may also not be paying the same landing fees for a flight ending in Copenhagen as you are for a flight landing in City 2.

Thanks, that's interesting. So you're saying its possible that landing fee is only for the final destination airport, vs paying landing fee's for both airports?

The second airport may be subsidizing the flight in some way. You may also not be paying the same landing fees for a flight ending in Copenhagen as you are for a flight landing in City 2.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is true in the US, too. I remember pricing a flight to Pittsburgh from DCA years ago on US Airways (which is a Pittsburgh hub).

It was $750 to fly and stop in Pittsburgh, but just $400 if I continued on to San Francisco. Absurd.

I wonder if you could have bought the SF-ticket and then just gotten off at Pittsburgh airport.....assuming you did not have any checked-in luggage...

I've been told your return ticket is cancelled.

Anonymous wrote:This is true in the US, too. I remember pricing a flight to Pittsburgh from DCA years ago on US Airways (which is a Pittsburgh hub).

It was $750 to fly and stop in Pittsburgh, but just $400 if I continued on to San Francisco. Absurd.

I wonder if you could have bought the SF-ticket and then just gotten off at Pittsburgh airport.....assuming you did not have any checked-in luggage...

People will always be willing to pay more for a direct flight to whereever they are going especially on flights to Europe. So a flight to Stockholm with a stop in Amsterdam will sell for less than the direct flight to Stockholm. A direct flight to Amsterdam will sell for more than that because the person who just wants to go to Amsterdam is getting the premium of having a direct flight and is willing to pay more for that.

Supply and demand, my friend.

This is true in the US, too. I remember pricing a flight to Pittsburgh from DCA years ago on US Airways (which is a Pittsburgh hub).

It was $750 to fly and stop in Pittsburgh, but just $400 if I continued on to San Francisco. Absurd.

So I’m searching for international flights for 2015 spring break and come across the following pricing:

- Dulles to a European city with KLM, layover in Amsterdam, ie 2 flights = approx. $750
- Dulles to Amsterdam with KLM (exactly same first leg of above journey), only 1 flight = $1100

Then I tried with another airline…..

- Dulles to a European city with SAS via Copenhagen, 2 leg journey, approx. $750
- Dulles to Copenhagen (same flight as first leg of above journey), approx. $1100

How come a shorter trip (with flight being exactly the same as first leg of a longer journey) cost more than a 2 part longer trip?