In message gemini.j0g0ne000bswf01uc.stewart.brodie@ntlworld. com, at
14:33:28 on Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Stewart Brodie
remarked:
Airlines have attempted to surcharge people who buy a cheaper ticket
than only use part of it (they regard it as fraud). And they are usually
quite fierce about cancelling the whole ticket if you fail to turn up at
the origin [eg failing to do London-Paris on a London-Paris-New York
ticket.]

The only workaround appears to be to actually fly to the real origin on a
separate ticket. It is still much cheaper to do so for some airlines,
though.

Maybe we'll see people catching a train to Ely, just to come back on an
offpeak travelcard to London, then return as far as Cambridge in the
evening peak?
--
Roland Perry