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You don't travel much, do you? Worst case, you loose the money spend on the ticket and you have to buy a new one. Unless, of course, you planned for a pretty lo
by hef19898 4y ago
You don't travel much, do you? Worst case, you loose the money spend on the ticket and you have to buy a new one. Unless, of course, you planned for a pretty long vacation anyway.
- havblue 4y agoYou do have to worry if you have to miss the first leg of a trip for some reason. They'll void the second leg as well if you don't call to straighten everything out.
- jaywalk 4y agoWell if you miss the first leg, it'll be pretty difficult to use subsequent legs anyway.
- ceejayoz 4y agoNo, people used to do this a lot deliberately because of airline pricing oddities. You'd book from your home airport --> your destination --> Tiny Airport X, then skip the second flight, because the price would often be much cheaper that way. Called "skiplagging": https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190226-the-travel-trick-that-airlines-hate https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190226-the-travel-tri...
- bialpio 4y agoBut that's not skipping the _first_ leg.
- dwaite 4y agoI had a family trip where it was suddenly required I show up two hours earlier, and the original airline didn't have a flight that would get me there. I booked a one way ticket on another to make it work, then was surprised when I tried to return home that I no longer had a valid ticket for the first. Of course, they'll helpfully offer to let you buy a one-way ticket at the counter, 90 minutes before departure, at maximal pricing.
- bombolo 4y agoMet a guy who had to fly Munich→Frankfurt→Munich→New York City, because it was considerably cheaper than just Munich→New York City. He would have gladly skipped the first 2 legs of the trip.
- gpt5 4y agoThis is because sometimes the airliner sell a flight connecting through your departure airport for less than a flight departing from it. Let's say you want to fly from Vegas to New york, it might be cheaper to buy SFO to new york, and hop on the Vegas->Mew York leg. They essentially make this option less viable, and can price each market differently.
- havblue 4y agoThat makes sense. For me, what happened was I was scheduled to fly to a destination city but wound up flying there from a different departure city, earlier, due to a funeral. I was shocked to find out that they would have cancelled my return trip as well if I didn't call in to grovel.