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From: mazlack@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Lawrence J. &)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal
Subject: Re: Airline rate wierdness
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 13:10:57 EST
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>
>(1) Would it really have been illegal for me to buy an additional ticket and
>then discard part of my original one without asking for a refund?  If so,
>then why?  Why should I be obligated to use all of the original ticket, as
>long as I don't ask them to refund the part I don't use?

Your problems sound a lot like my problems.  I regularily find it cheaper to getof the plane a stop earlier (only works if you hand carry everything).  

No, what you ask is NOT illegal. I do it often. (Asking for the unused part
usually doesn't work because it isn't a "point to point" ticket.)
  ... Larry Mazlack (on sabbatical at UC Berkeley)
      MAZLACK@ERNIE.BERKELEY.EDU