Multiple Bookings - Similar Times
 

Hi there - I searched and could not find a clear answer on this.

I have a 2-leg flight booked (AUS-ORD-DTW) with a day stopover in ORD.

It turns out I am not going to need the ORD-DTW leg now. However, if I change this flight online (AUS-ORD-AUS), it runs $750 including the change fee. If I book a simple one way ORD-AUS, it's $450-ish, however the flight would be around the same time as the original ORD-DTW flight (within 30 minutes of each other).

Will the AA system flag this and possibly cancel the new ORD-AUS one way? Can I tell them I'm not going to fly the ORD-DTW leg and have them cancel it? (Didn't see a way to do this online and normally when I do something like this they want to reprice everything at the current rates).

Thanks for the advice and hello again FT after about a year away...

System should cancel, yes. Some suggest that booking the 2nd reservation w/o your AAdv # can help prevent that, but have no personal experience with that.

It's circumventing rules no matter how you go about it, albeit w/ very low risk (aside from reservation getting canceled, obviously,) as it were.

Can you fly another airline for the new ORD-AUS leg? That's what I would do.

+1 book UA for ORD-AUS