Updates to my Scalia plane ticket post are here.
UPDATE: Air travel guru Gary Leff e-mails to note that Scalia’s round-trip ticket most likely originated in New Orleans, and not D.C., because “forgoing the outbound and using the return portion of a ticket only . . . is generally NOT acceptable even in the case of medical emergency — it used to be but no longer is. And lack of space available accomodations on Air Force 2 would never have qualified, though an airline through the influence of its government relations department could presumably have made an exception.” Scalia’s memo itself is unclear on this point. Leff also notes that whether Scalia violated an airline’s tariff rules by purchasing a round-trip ticket but only using one leg — called throw-away ticketing if he used the first half and tossed the second — depends on what airline he flew. It’s prohibited on some airlines, but not others.
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