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I did not know that airlines penalize you for that. What happens when you have a sfo-nyc-btv flight and decide to get out in NYC?

by usaphp 9y ago

preinheimer 9y ago
The airlines get grumpy. They may not grant you miles, cancel your return trip entirely, etc. Skiplagged I think helps you figure this sort of thing out: https://skiplagged.com/ https://skiplagged.com/
meaydinli 9y ago
There was a whole controversy a few years ago around this. See https://skiplagged.com/about https://skiplagged.com/about . This website automated that approach so that you got a ticket with a few stops for cheaper but you just left at the stop you wanted originally.
speby 9y ago
People do this a lot. This is a well-known and old issue known as "Hidden City Ticketing" and goes by other names, as well. It is against the typical Contract of Carriage agreement passengers have their airlines, though it's hard to actually enforce: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/17984/is-leaving-airport-at-a-stop-before-the-final-destination-illegal https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/17984/is-leaving-... Note that while this tactic can be money-saving and useful in practice, it does have certain downsides, like if you need to check luggage, or if you expect to collect your airline miles and segments (typically requires completing the full itinerary, though not always).
- waqf 9y ago
  The big one that nobody's mentioned is that the airline will cancel any remaining flight segments on that ticket, without recourse unless you are very good at begging favors from customer service. So don't book a round trip SFO-NYC-BTV-NYC-SFO on one ticket and skip the NYC-BTV segment, because you won't be able to rejoin either for BTV-NYC or NYC-SFO.
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cddotdotslash 9y ago
There's a whole website (https://skiplagged.com/ https://skiplagged.com/) dedicated to it. The airlines do NOT like it. I believe they sued the creator of the website at one point. In short, you can't check your baggage, they'll probably notice you didn't take the second leg, and if you do it too many times, you might find yourself with a ban.
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philipodonnell 9y ago
They might cancel the rest of your roundtrip ticket and refuse give you a refund, or they might ignore it for a while and then ban you, or they might do random things like refusing to honor ff miles. There are no rules to protect you and no one to complain to except the airline's customer service. Care to roll the dice? :-)

I did not know that airlines penalize you for that. What happens when you have a sfo-nyc-btv flight and decide to get out in NYC?

by usaphp 9y ago

I did not know that airlines penalize you for that. What happens when you have a sfo-nyc-btv flight and decide to get out in NYC?

preinheimer 9y ago

The airlines get grumpy. They may not grant you miles, cancel your return trip entirely, etc. Skiplagged I think helps you figure this sort of thing out: https://skiplagged.com/ https://skiplagged.com/

meaydinli 9y ago

There was a whole controversy a few years ago around this. See https://skiplagged.com/about https://skiplagged.com/about . This website automated that approach so that you got a ticket with a few stops for cheaper but you just left at the stop you wanted originally.

speby 9y ago

People do this a lot. This is a well-known and old issue known as "Hidden City Ticketing" and goes by other names, as well. It is against the typical Contract of Carriage agreement passengers have their airlines, though it's hard to actually enforce: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/17984/is-leaving-airport-at-a-stop-before-the-final-destination-illegal https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/17984/is-leaving-... Note that while this tactic can be money-saving and useful in practice, it does have certain downsides, like if you need to check luggage, or if you expect to collect your airline miles and segments (typically requires completing the full itinerary, though not always).

waqf 9y ago
The big one that nobody's mentioned is that the airline will cancel any remaining flight segments on that ticket, without recourse unless you are very good at begging favors from customer service. So don't book a round trip SFO-NYC-BTV-NYC-SFO on one ticket and skip the NYC-BTV segment, because you won't be able to rejoin either for BTV-NYC or NYC-SFO.

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cddotdotslash 9y ago

There's a whole website (https://skiplagged.com/ https://skiplagged.com/) dedicated to it. The airlines do NOT like it. I believe they sued the creator of the website at one point. In short, you can't check your baggage, they'll probably notice you didn't take the second leg, and if you do it too many times, you might find yourself with a ban.

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philipodonnell 9y ago

They might cancel the rest of your roundtrip ticket and refuse give you a refund, or they might ignore it for a while and then ban you, or they might do random things like refusing to honor ff miles. There are no rules to protect you and no one to complain to except the airline's customer service. Care to roll the dice? :-)