<p>I just posted this a couple of days ago in another thread.</p>
<p>We are in Charlotte, and my mother wants to fly to Detroit. From Charlotte to Detroit, it would cost her about $450. Instead, she purchased a ticket from Greensboro (a 1 1/2 hour drive from here) and will fly from Greensboro to Charlotte and will change to that exact same flight from Charlotte to Detroit. Her airfare, one-way, from Greensboro to Detroit is $213! All US Airways.</p>
<p>She bought a one-way ticket. Had she gone round-trip she would have considered getting off at Charlotte, but she would have to have no checked bags to pull that off.</p>
<p>so… what if we called US Airways in Greensboro right after departure time and were all frantic and said oh, we just missed our flight to Detroit would it be ok if we raced to the Charlotte airport and picked up the flight there?? 
I bet they would say… “nice try”</p>
<p>The really weird part - and here is where logic doesn’t apply - now that the airline has sold a seat from Greensboro to Charlotte and from Charlotte to Detroit for a total of $213, shouldn’t they be willing to resell the seat from Greensboro to Charlotte to someone else who wants it? What if we called the airline and told them, look, we will keep the CLT to Detroit leg and you can resell our seat from Greensboro to CLT and keep the change! They would make more money that way… sigh…</p>