Originally Posted by
JJeffrey
Tread with great care? Lol...
As mentioned, for a once or twice occurrence there is zero chance of anything "bad" happening. Over the course of a day in the airline industry folks will miss thousands of flights for one reason or another, and AA (or any other airline) is not going to micro analyze each case and try to determine whether the pax intentionally skipped a segment or not.
This is kinda my thought too. It's one thing to miss a segment on a one way itinerary, and another to miss a flight AND do something additional, like book a conflicting segment (say HKG-BKK) an hour later. Now THAT would be a problem.