Neville, I don't think anyone recommended you not use the outbound. I think the suggestion was that you book roundtrip and only use the part of the ticket that you need. It has always been an airline rule that if you miss a segment on a ticket that the remaining segments are cancelled. So, if you do this you have to make sure that the segments that you do not use are the last segments, not the beginning segments. Does this make sense yet to you? Book the segment that you actually want to fly first in order. Book the part you will not use as the last segment. Don't tell the airline employees that this is your plan because it is not allowed by their contracts of carriage. Good luck, Debbie