Originally Posted by Viajero
What happens in the case of a paper ticket? Can you really just cancel the reservation (if applicable) over the phone, throw the coupon(s) away and resume your OWE from the next stop(s), just like that, without reissue?
Edited to add: I mean in the special case of an OWE. I have done the above lots of time with 'normal' paper tickets, and the airlines didn't care one bit, but never with an OWE.
I have not done with a dated coupon, but with an open coupon definitely yes - just recently i forfeited two coupons for LHR-VCE-LHR - never made a reservation for those segments, and when I checked in for LAX-LHR-NRT (which would have had the forfeited segments in the middle according to the coupon order in the ticket book) the agent ignored them - instead of throwing them out she said she would leave them in for me to dispose of.