I apologise, but I haven't read all the posts in this thread, but I'd be thinking Lufthansa doesn't have a leg to stand on. If a pax has bought a tix, there is surely no law that forces them to travel? They're not asking for their money back so the airline loses absolutely nothing by the pax not flying. If the airline is playing silly games with price gouging, then too bad if someone plays back, but it'd be pretty hard in any case for them to prove a pax didn't fall ill and couldn't continue the trip, even with multiple examples of "jumping ship". Most frequent flyers have at some point missed flights (for legitimate reasons) and I see no difference with this ... airfare paid, flight not taken, points/SCs/fare forfeited. End of story and in fact for any airline who give points based on fare paid rather than miles flown, the points should also not be forfeited in my book!.