'Throwaway' ticketing on airlines

[psychocandy]

When I was commuting regularly to the UK, I bought one ticket CH-UK-CH start date monday of start of contract, end date friday of end of contract. Then I bought tickets Friday-Mon UK-CH-UK. Much cheaper.

This is another thing thats not allowed in the t+cs for most airlines if you check....

[psychocandy]

Yip, loads of times. I worked for a Thomson once and the reason for doing this is absolutely crazy, but it's ingrained in their systems.

No-one ever get charged the extra then?

[NotAllThere]

This is another thing thats not allowed in the t+cs for most airlines if you check....

Did it for three months. Never had a query. (Swiss International Airlines). It did help that I had a UK address for the UK-CH-UK leg. At one client site, the secretary was adept at back-to-backs. Saved the company a fortune - again, never a niggle.

Thing is, there's no throwaway. All legs are used.

[psychocandy]

Did it for three months. Never had a query. (Swiss International Airlines). It did help that I had a UK address for the UK-CH-UK leg. At one client site, the secretary was adept at back-to-backs. Saved the company a fortune - again, never a niggle.

Thing is, there's no throwaway. All legs are used.

I think they call that overlapping/staggered fares and, strictly speaking, it aint allowed either because in effect what you're doing is avoiding paying the higher fare by making it look like your travel spans the weekend.

Not saying I wouldnt do it mind - I definitely would. Looks like the airlines dont check these things as you demonstrate.