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> Pro tip: Always buy a round-trip ticket when you plan to flee fraud. It looks better in court Another pro tip: round-trip tickets are often cheaper than one-way tickets, even if you don't plan to return! The "return" can be a long, long way in the future, too.
This may happen once in a while due to some algorithm weirdness, but it is absolutely not "often" the case.
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This is a result of a strange pricing algorithm mistakes, right? Surely this doesn't maximize profit.
The average leisure traveler typically isn’t taking a two-day international trip. Airlines see an opportunity to extract more profit from business travelers who may not know their return date. A significant example is Lufthansa (and co) — multiple thousands of dollars to book a one way to Europe, under 800 for round trip.
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This falls into the category of “cheap and dumb criminals.” Similar to the first World Trade Center bombers that tried to get their deposit back on the rental truck they blew up.
This is actually the first time I've heard that. Is this urban legend (it is funny as hell), or did it actually happen? "Two of these pieces bore a vehicle identification number (VIN) that the FBI traced to a rental agency in Jersey City, N.J. The man who rented the truck, Mohammed Salameh, had reported it stolen. Seeking a refund of his $400 deposit, Salameh repeatedly returned to the Jersey City rental agency where…
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Pro Pro tip: Don't buy anything, America as a landmass can be crossed from the Southern tip to Alaska with a simple car (however a LandCruiser or a Jeep would be better to face the offroad and/or the snow)
are you suggesting it would be better to be on the lamb in remote parts right under the noses of the gov't attempting to be avoided? how well did that work out for Ted Kaczynski or Eric Rudolf and these were guys that loved the idea of living in the wilderness. how well do you think little ms pampered would make in a cabin in the woods?
Actually really well. Kaczyinski basically got turned in by his brother and Eric Rudolph hid for 5 years in the wilderness living off the land occasionally scavenging in dumpsters for leftovers (which is how he eventually got arrested by a rookie cop who thought he was a burglar). Rudolph subsequently wrote a book describing his extended hideout.
I doubt la Holmes would last long in this kind of life, but unlike those two she had access to huge amounts of money and the capability to stash someI think she could have pulled it off easily; she would be at greater risk from encountering a professional criminal that would pick up on her furtiveness.
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I've had the situation where two round trips are cheaper than one. Especially if you are doing like a two day trip that looks like it might be business. E.g. LHR to JFK Mon to Wednesday.
That’s called back-to-back ticketing and the airlines really don’t like it. You can easily get your frequent flier account closed for doing that, if not sued for the price difference.
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This is idiotic. No airline has ever permanently banned a passenger for missing a flight. The most that can happen is if you miss the first leg they will automatically cancel the second one.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/13/694352593/lufthansa-airlines-...
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The same way it does now: as a pathetic ploy to secure a lighter sentence.
An alternative explanation that's just as plausible: Faced with an 11 year federal prison sentence at age 38, she saw this as her last chance to have biological children.
Pro tip: Always buy a round-trip ticket when you plan to flee fraud. It looks better in court and in newspapers, and nobody will force you to take the trip back.
Pro Pro tip: Don't buy anything, America as a landmass can be crossed from the Southern tip to Alaska with a simple car (however a LandCruiser or a Jeep would be better to face the offroad and/or the snow)
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> I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Why would you be inclined to give a convicted fraudster the benefit of the doubt?
In the case of this ticket thing, when her significant other then went on the trip and came back, presumably not by himself. I'm willing to give the the benefit of the doubt here because we clearly are missing important information. Like I said, I don't support her. In one sense, some justice has already been served as she is out of business and can't be in the medical business. I'm sure she is still subject to civil…
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In the case of this ticket thing, when her significant other then went on the trip and came back, presumably not by himself. I'm willing to give the the benefit of the doubt here because we clearly are missing important information. Like I said, I don't support her. In one sense, some justice has already been served as she is out of business and can't be in the medical business. I'm sure she is still subject to civil…
There is plenty of value in locking her up, among them letting financial criminals, who so often get off with laughably light sentences, know that if they steal massive amount of money from other people, their life, theirs personally, will be over.
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-deterr...