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[ctenb]

How would that cost them money? The ticket is already paid, whether the passenger goes on the flight has no effect.

[Panzer04 → ctenb]

The issue is they would charge you significantly more for the direct flight to the stopover location.

It's a pricing model that works by charging for what people are willing to pay, not the costs incurred.

[Scoundreller → Panzer04]

In some international cases, it creates tax/airport fee problems. Sometimes transit passengers pay less. Whether that's an airline or passenger problem probably depends.

edit: I actually can't find any examples of "airport taxes" being levied on arriving passengers that are different than transit passengers. The differentiation only seems to be between departing & transit passengers)

Meanwhile, other countries let you get a tax refund on unused flights and airlines probably hate that paperwork

[regularfry → Panzer04]

Yes, but that's not costing them money. It might be lost revenue, but that's different. There's no guarantee that I would buy the ticket at all if the full direct flight price was the only option.