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Usually, when someone gets frustrated in a dispute like this, I tell them, "Hold on, now. Take a deep breath. And try to look at this from the other guy's perspective."

In this case, the other guy is the airline.

Now, you call them up, and tell them, "I've bought a round-trip ticket, and my seat will be empty for the first leg. You have my permission to sell this seat to someone else, for all you can get for it."

Now, they don't want to do this because....um....

I have no idea why they would have a problem with this.