Originally Posted by stoker
I have discovered that I can buy a cheaper ticket to a destination (B) beyond my desired destination (A). The journey requires a change of planes at destination A, before going to B. If I took carry-on luggage only, would there be a bad consequence of just getting off a destination A? The return trip leaves from destination A.
If you get off at destination A, and do not continue to destination B, the airline will automatically cancel your ticket for the 2nd leg on the outbound and all legs on the return.
Trying to check in half way through the return sector at destination A, they certainly wouldn't accept you.
If you are very price sensitive you could always buy a return ticket from destination B back to destination A and back to destination B again. Sounds silly, but frequently the cost of a flight to BWI for example is cheaper from AMS via LHR on BA, than LHR-BWI direct on the same flight. So cheap infact that you can buy tickets from LHR-AMS-LHR to connect to the first and last flights and still be better off than flying LHR-BWI-LHR direct. Its a hell of a lot of effort to do that though!
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