#airfare-pricing

#airfare-pricing

Throwaway ticketing is a simple concept wrapped in complicated airline logic. It happens when a traveler books a round-trip flight, but only uses the outbound leg throwing away the return. Here's an example: You want to fly from New York to London one way. The one-way ticket costs $850. But a round-trip from New York to London and back costs $620. So what do you do? You book the round-trip and skip the return flight.

You're hunched in a plastic chair, clutching your boarding pass, waiting for a flight that doesn't even depart until after midnight. Around you, the terminal looks like a strange in-between worldhalf asleep, half awake. You could've taken the 10 a.m. flight like a normal person. You could've slept in, had breakfast, and breezed through check-in. But you didn't. You took the red-eye.