Originally Posted by
pitpit
I have an itinerary BWI-ATL (overnight) ATL-UIO, UIO-ATL-BOS coming up next week. However, work has now moved me from the Baltimore area and I will instead be elsewhere where taking BWI-ATL is no longer a possibility. Has anyone had any luck dropping or skipping the first segment of an itinerary and still flying the rest of the ticket? I can make it to Atlanta for the subsequent flights, but not the first leg. When I called the Diamond desk the quoted $900 to simply drop the first leg of my trip (of which I only paid $500!). Seems crazy, right?! Or am I crazy?
Any advice how I can still fly this ticket without being in BWI is greatly appreciated.
You got a good deal on your ticket. If you change the origination point, they take what you paid ($500) less a change fee (probably $300) and use the residual credit (about $200) toward whatever a new ticket originating in ATL costs now, with little advance purchase. So $900 doesn't sound crazy.
Best is probably to get yourself back to BWI, buying a one-way flight if you have to, even if it is on a different airline.
As was said, if you miss a flight (the first flight or any subsequent flight), the airline will cancel the rest of your itinerary. The only flight you can sometimes miss is the last flight in an itinerary, but even then only if you just have carry on and that can be iffy sometimes too.