Originally Posted by nort

Thanks all for the clarification.

My return from AAA - HKG - SFO has a connection (<24h) in HKG. On the outbound, (SFO - HKG - AAA), I have a 3 day stopover in HKG and a one week stay at the destination AAA. What I was thinking and my travel agent said is possible is to just delete the HKG - AAA segment on the outbound, and buy a separate ticket from HKG - BBB (stopover for a few days) - AAA. I want to then fly back from AAA - HKG - SFO on the original ticket's return segments.

Seems it's risky or impossible to just delete the HKG - AAA segment without losing the return flight. Instead, if I were to just postpone the HKG - AAA segment, then I could buy a separate round trip ticket from HKG - BBB - HKG, and then fly the HKG - AAA segment a few days later. If I were to change the date of the HKG - AAA, would it be cheaper to do it after flying the first segment (during my stopover in HKG) rather than before? Do they use different fares (current vs originally booked) for repricing before vs after flying the first segment?

Thank you.