Travel Question

[bluegargantua]

Hi,

So last week, I purchased my ticket to GenCon. I leave on Wednesday, August 15th and come back on Sunday.

Early this week, it occurred to me that I could start my vacation earlier and leave from Boston on Friday, August 10th to go out to Nebraska and visit my folks (I was supposed to do this next week, but work and a new house are conspiring). It turns out, there's a pretty cheap multi-city fare that takes me from Boston to Omaha and back to Indianapolis on Wednesday.

Now, here's my question: I could try and change my existing ticket. But they'll slap a fee of $100 bucks on me and all kinds of other crap. Suppose I just bought the multi-city ticket. On Wednesday, I wouldn't be in Boston to take my flight out to Indianapolis. But can I use the return portion on Sunday. In other words, can I skip out on the outbound flight but use the return portion of my ticket rather than canceling the whole thing and starting over? It would be cheaper than trying to alter the existing flight and probably more convenient since I might need to use a different carrier to get to Omaha.

I'm sure in the past no one would care, but with heightened security, they might wonder what happened to me and deny my boarding.

Does anyone in LJ know the answer to this?

later
Tom

Comments

[drwex]

If you do not use an earlier leg of a ticket, later legs will automatically be cancelled. It makes sense from the carrier's point of view - if you miss the flight from A to B and don't rebook in some known way they have no reason to expect you to show up for the return from B back to A.

The issue is not with security; it's about airline revenue.