Changing flight mid travel
 

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.

Call up and tell the. What you need. Expect to get repriced, especially if you are in a discount fare. If you miss a segment on a trip, the rest of the itinerary gets cancelled, so don’t play games here.

If you skip the jfk to lax segment your return will be cancelled, skip lagging is more about not flying the final segment, since we can’t see your fare rules none if us can give you much more advice than you need to call, now if all your segments are on aa and your are very careful you can try changing the segment on line to get some idea of the price, I would be very careful with this and not actually complete the change, my own experience in situations such as yours is that the answer is never what I expected sometimes it is less sometimes more but always vastly different than I might have thought,

you can wait to see if there is an issue with either the fco to jfk flight or jfk to lax which in this case would help you out

Thank you for your advice. I have no choice but to take the FCO-JFK segment since I need to get back to the states after a 2 hour business meeting on Wed for my mother in law/family. I will beg for mercy at the Chelsea lounge/EXP line since I have a 2.5 hour layover and see what they can do for me, the JFK--LAX flight looks sold out in first and business so maybe they would want the seat back?? If I had originally booked to not go to LAX and stay in JFK the price would have been less expensive but that was then and not day of...worse comes to worse I will have to fly to LAX and do a red home as soon as I land to get back to the east coast which is waste of time but I guess rules are rules logic be damned:(.

This was actually going to be my suggestion if the price to change was too much.

I cancelled my flight once in JFK and they gave me $36 flight credit for my JFK-LAX, JFK-FCO in business class (not upgrades but booked in biz)...I didn't ask what it would be since I had to get home for an emergency. Just insanity.

A little OT, but doesn’t Italian consumer law upholds passengers right to cancel a portion of their trip without a re-price? In this case AA should have no grounds of requesting an add collect.

I would call AA and reference the italian regulation, to see if they are willing reinstate JFK-FCO (probably will be a very uphill battle but worth a try)

Did OP try to change the segment before cancelling this is what I meant by the answer on the change cost always surprises me there are all sorts of things that come into play when you do a change including local laws but the reticket desk normally gets it right, but if you skip a segment the airline can cancel everything else in this case the refund is probably correct and op needed to look into the cost of the change once they knew that they needed to change it can be very hard to get something reticked at the airport on a complex fare