[lsaferite]

“Purchasing a ticket to a point beyond the actual destination and getting off the aircraft at the connecting point is unethical, It is tantamount to switching price tags to obtain a lower price on goods sold at department stores.”

Are they being serious? It's 'ethical' to charge more for (A->B) and less for (A->B->C)? Do they even think about these things before they say them?

[lsaferite]

Instead of editing my original, I will just add here.

In response to the comment from the airline, no, it's like buying a pant & shirt combo set for $40 when the same exact pants sell for $70 and then throwing away the shirt.

How is that unethical exactly?

[DanBC]

I can't find it now but people who travel on Eurostar have similar restrictions. It seems to be something that makes sense to people providing travel services, if not to the people receiving them.

(A site that helps you search for the stuff you can't find would be cool. Like "Google Answers" or whatever it was called.)