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So, what really happens to you if you try to take advantage of the system? As above, sometimes the round trip is cheaper than the one way. I was trying to book a holiday last year and wanted to go from Syracuse NY to Gran Canaria Spain, to Stuttgart Germany and then back home. I found that it was cheaper to get a round trip ticket to Gran Canaria, then a round trip ticket from Gran Canaria to Stuttgart, then a round trip ticket from Stuttgart to home than it would have been for one way all around. I thought, so what, I'll just go one way and fail to get on the return flights. Would they try to penalize me in some way? Would they look at the collection of tickets and say "oh no, you can't be in two places at once"? Would I be arrested?
We ended up with a round trip to Stuttgart and then a round trip to Gran Canaria from Stuttgart because it was cheaper, but we were seriously jet lagged and had only a few hours to sleep before going back to the damn flug hafen. And the damn airline lost some of our bags. Luckily we got the bags 5 minutes before boarding to go to Gran Canaria.
Note, with 2 adults and three children, pack some of each person's clothes in each bag in case not all the bags make it.
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