Hi,

I'm going from FCO-JFK-LAX with my outgoing flight 4/11. I need to skip my JFK-LAX and re-route to RDU due to a family situation, happy to purchase that as a separate vs asking AA to accommodate me for this Thur. My return flight is JFK--FCO in May. Do you think that AA will consider this a huge issue? I'm currently in MAD in route to FCO so not sure if a call to AA prior to my origination flight as that may reprice the something astronomical and will force me to do the full flight and fly back from LAX-RUD since I don't want it to be considered "skip lagging" due to huge balances and 10 SWU in my account. I just want to drop the JFK-LAX and NOT ask for any reimbursement for that portion even through its booked in first but just not to cancel the return to FCO in May. Sorry if this is covered somewhere else but I did a search to no avail and have to head to my gate.

Many thanks for all the insights everyone on this board has to offer.