Lufthansa has clearly decided that they have the pockets to pursue this and to withstand if it goes against them.
One of the world’s biggest airlines is seeking to sue a passenger who did not take the last leg of their ticketed journey, threatening a widely used hack for cheaper flights.
The German national airline, Lufthansa, is pursuing payment from an unnamed traveller who, it believes, deliberately bought a ticket with no intention of flying the last leg.
While an initial court case found in the passenger’s favour, Lufthansa has been given permission to appeal.
At the centre of the issue is that passengers will pay a premium for non-stop flights. The principle that airlines charge less for more flights underpins pricing strategies by “network carriers” such as Lufthansa, Air France and British Airways.
from The Independent
Recently I was looking up routings for a friend and found that the indirects were more expensive, just varies for each sector and every separate rotation of the same route.