Originally Posted by
eigenvector
If it's an award ticket, coughing up the change fee to drop the first leg is likely much easier than spending time and money to get to Kingston. You might save $50 at the expense of 4+ hours of your time.
alc said the same thing: "might be easier". What do you mean exactly by that, if I may ask? If I call in 3 days before the flight to cancel my first flight, then is a new ticket going to be reissued? If that's the case, then the miles required for the christmas tickets may have increased (it is christmas after all, and it cost more miles than normal and has to be bought on the market fair). And what's the fee associated with this change?