Cancel ticket and no-show fee - forfeit and itinerary change?
I have a simple 1-way ticket booked from SIN-HKG right now. There's a small small chance that I might be pulled into a business trip, and if so I may want to book XXX-SIN-HKG (stopover in SIN) as I can get some more favorable fares for premium economy across both legs.
IAH-XXX would be on a separate airline.
The current fare I have doesn't allow cancellations (economy lite). I'm also traveling with other people.
I know I can split off the itinerary to just be me. My question is could I also ask them to just cancel and forfeit the ticket/value? I just want to avoid the no-show fee on top of the ticket I would forfeit.
Alternatively if there's a way to rebook what I have to the routing I need I could do that (and maybe forget premium economy), but I'm not sure if I can completely change the routing and get "credit".