IRISHFLYER1

Looking to FlY to US and don't care about return as have another flight.

the Routing is giving me DUB-LHR or EI and LHR-LAX on AA.

Would I get financially penalised for not using return flight with AA?

All booked on BA

Tobias-UK

The most accurate answer is yes, no, maybe, perhaps and unlikely.

chris1979

No.

There's various debates about potential risks to skipping the last leg of ex EU trips and whilst the argument theoretically is the same for booking a return flight when you only intend to take the outbound flight, I really don't see how you would encounter any issues.

chris1979

+1

;-)

corporate-wage-slave

I agree with this. If you've not done it before, whilst in no way recommending this course of action, it would tend to the unlikely area.

stueys

BA log missed returns, as it's the most common way to frig pricing. If you do it occasionally you are unlikely to have an issue, do it often and they will ask you to explain why.

richlondon

Often1

Nobody on FT can accurately answer the question and there are threads here about what has happened to TA's who book tickets where the final leg is skipped (dire), but those are commercial issues, not consumer.

Perhaps the most accurate answer is to say that BA could reprice the ticket and pursue you for the fare difference and then close your BAEC account and revoke your status. Whether BA would attempt the former and suceed if it attempted to do so or whether it would do the latter, is the issue as to which you will find thousands of posts from "experts" who read the minds of judges.

Hence, "yes, no maybe."

cysyuen

Can you not just phone up and cancel it?

You can get your taxes back.

Globaliser

After the trip has been re-priced as a one-way ticket, perhaps?

stueys

Not tried it but I expect exactly this

flatlander

It's unlikely anything would happen to you, especially if you don't make habit of this.

The situation for missing onward connections from LHR to a European destination is treated differently by BA: there the passenger has checked in (I presume you will not even check in), the fare differences are much bigger and it's much easier for the passenger to exploit them, and the inconvenience to BA of having to wait for and handle a no-show at the gate is greater. Turnround managers don't need their blood pressure increased further by hidden-city no-shows on LHR-DUB and they are making their inconvenience known up the BA management chain.

Using half a long haul causes much less hassle, especially when you don't check in so they're not expecting you at the gate.

Ziz

I've done this before. I had the return part LHR-YYZ booked to be flown in December (outbound had been flown in August). For long boring reasons I won't go into, I decided to book a LHR-YYZ-LHR flight to go out and back instead of using the original return segment and buying a one way return. I rang up and cancelled the original LHR-YYZ segment and they dutifully returned the taxes etc no questions asked.