NYLON wrote:The thing to remember is that Ex-EU fares are totally legitimate tickets aimed at the hundreds of millions of continental Europeans. From a British perspective it might look like a scam to take a positioning flight in order to take advantage of the fare, but it really isn't in any way. The only grey area with regard to ticket validity is to do with pax who drop sectors. And much has been written on that here and elsewhere.
I saw some friends in the Netherlands over the weekend. Both asked me about my trip to New York. They knew I had started in DUB and wanted to know why - thinking I'd lost the plot.
Mind they thought I'd lost it by getting the train to Amsterdam rather than just flying but that's a different story!
They were equally as stunned as people are in the UK about these ex-EU fares and how much I had saved.
Except for them the fares aren't really ex-EU as they are in AMS anyway!
It is just that they look for direct flights from AMS to XXX and would rather have the convenience of a direct flight. i.e. like millions of Brits or Germans or French or Italians ...
Neither had thought of looking at a via LHR flight that started in AMS
But they are now!