As an additional note, it is always good to double check to make sure that you will be able to get in the country on a one way fare.
The travel agent will sell you a one way fare as they have not enough info on your personal details or what your onward plans are, but the immigration rules may state that an onward ticket is required (depends on the country of destination and your nationality of course).
If this is the case, it will be enforced by the airline when you go to check in, which is the first point they see you can can check your documents. The reason for this is that the airline is responsible for making sure the passengers have the necessary documentation as the immigration folks have pushed this back on them. If a traveller gets on the plane without them, the cost is pushed back on the airlines to send the person back and there are fines to the airline involved.
Again, depends on the situation, i.e. nationality of the traveller, rules of the country, but worth double checking. And yes, it did happen to me when I was flying one way to South Africa through Germany and they asked me about my onward ticket as I checked into the transit gate (late as usual). I hadn't thought too much about it previousy for that trip, but was vaguely aware so got on the phone while standing at the gate and bought a full fare one way ticket out of the country in a week (all while the plane was loading) and then cancelled it once I had landed and cleared customs. They held me up until they could see the confirmation email and also made me call into the airline and had them confirm it was a valid ticket.
Anyways, just wanted to comment on one potential thing to be aware of one way tickets that may impact some travellers and destinations and not others. Might be worth a phone call before departure.
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