Booking one way flight to USA

[shmoo]

Many years ago I got threatened by an airline for breach of contract for not using all the segments of a ticket. It was something like the fare from NY to Chicago was dearer than from NY to Grand Rapids, via Chicago so I aways got the later and got off at Chicago, where I lived.

I am not clever enough to have thought of this scam myself: loads of people who commuted between NY and Chi did it and AA weren't going to sue all of them!

Now, immigration, that's a whole different issue...

 

[VO5]

Many years ago I got threatened by an airline for breach of contract for not using all the segments of a ticket. It was something like the fare from NY to Chicago was dearer than from NY to Grand Rapids, via Chicago so I aways got the later and got off at Chicago, where I lived.

I am not clever enough to have thought of this scam myself: loads of people who commuted between NY and Chi did it and AA weren't going to sue all of them!

Now, immigration, that's a whole different issue...

It is all part of the arcanity of preconceived notions.
I think it typifies the thinking of today...
...Being threatened for breach of contract........for not completing a journey....whose fare you had already paid in total......aren't they a bunch of clowns ?

 

[Twister_Ken]

It is all part of the arcanity of preconceived notions.
I think it typifies the thinking of today...
...Being threatened for breach of contract........for not completing a journey....whose fare you had already paid in total......aren't they a bunch of clowns ?

The clue may be in the "many years ago" part of the tale; maybe before the airlines were deregulated and they could behave with all the customer-centricity of a parking warden.

 

[VO5]

The clue may be in the "many years ago" part of the tale; maybe before the airlines were deregulated and they could behave with all the customer-centricity of a parking warden.

Ah...right...I missed that...
But it is the nation of quirky laws...
On a flight 2 years ago to Washington, a very friendly stewardess gave me a bottle of champagne as a gift...and advised me to put it in a box on landing, otherwise it would be confiscated..
The dilemma was that I didn't have a box...
My luggage was in the hold and I only had a briefcase as hand luggage..and it would not fit in that...
A carrier bag would not do either...it had to be a box..
What to do ? What to do ?
I racked my brains...
I reasoned that a box to hold the bottle had to be rectangular...
So I proceeded to make a "box"..
I took all the pages out of an in flight magazine...and folded them to make a tube...and then at the ends square bits...
of course it could not keep its shape...but the intent is what mattered... I put it into a carrier bag...
I was stopped...
I explained it was a box...made of paper...but a box...that refused to keep its shape...but a box...that I had made...a box..and not a wrapping...
And guess what ?
I got away with it after persistent arguing and they let me through with the "box" and its "contents"..

 

[Twister_Ken]

Ah...right...I missed that...
But it is the nation of quirky laws...

Ah yes. My son was told he couldn't have a pee in the forward loo, because it was next to the cockpit and he might try and break through the bulkhead and grollock the driver. Bizarrely though club class passengers could pee there because - presumably - terrorists don't fly club class.

And I was told off for taking a pic through the plane window when about 20 minutes out of JFK. Why? "Security, sir." Apparently they don't know about Google Earth.