Not using return portion of ticket?
May 12, 2010 | 4:01 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 5
Not using return portion of ticket?
Budget consciously wishing to fly as follows:
21 Sept London-Amsterdam --- Easyjet. Ł30 sorted!
24 Sept Amsterdam-Helsinki
26 Sept Helsinki-London --- Easyjet. Ł43 sorted!
However, Ams-Hel return fare is Ł203 but the single is Ł450! Yikes!
(KLM or Finnair same price)
So, what happens if I buy the return ticket at Ł203, then? Can I just use the outward half and simply not check in or turn up for the return half?
Sorry if this is an ignorant question but I am a newbie novice!
21 Sept London-Amsterdam --- Easyjet. Ł30 sorted!
24 Sept Amsterdam-Helsinki
26 Sept Helsinki-London --- Easyjet. Ł43 sorted!
However, Ams-Hel return fare is Ł203 but the single is Ł450! Yikes!
(KLM or Finnair same price)
So, what happens if I buy the return ticket at Ł203, then? Can I just use the outward half and simply not check in or turn up for the return half?
Sorry if this is an ignorant question but I am a newbie novice!
May 12, 2010 | 6:18 am
#2
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 8
not using return half
also would like to know that answer as we are travelling to europe in 2wks but my college grad son wants to stay on for 3 more weeks and changing tkt home with ba is more expensive than buying a different return tkt on another airline
someone with experience with this pls let us know
jean
someone with experience with this pls let us know
jean
May 12, 2010 | 6:43 am
#3
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 3,077
Hi Sussexwoman and jeanrtco, Welcome to FlyerTalk!
If you book an airline ticket, you can abandon it at any point in time. This may include at a connecting city on a one way or simply not using the return portion of a round trip ticket.
However, once you miss a flight segment you can't pick up from where you left off.
In other words If you book a return ticket, London to Paris, and you don't make the London to Paris portion, you cannot fly the Paris to London portion.
As for buying a different return ticket for your trip to Europe, you could buy a completely new return ticket to Europe and just not use the one on BA. Or you could just buy a one way from Europe back to wherever you want to go.
If you book an airline ticket, you can abandon it at any point in time. This may include at a connecting city on a one way or simply not using the return portion of a round trip ticket.
However, once you miss a flight segment you can't pick up from where you left off.
In other words If you book a return ticket, London to Paris, and you don't make the London to Paris portion, you cannot fly the Paris to London portion.
As for buying a different return ticket for your trip to Europe, you could buy a completely new return ticket to Europe and just not use the one on BA. Or you could just buy a one way from Europe back to wherever you want to go.
May 12, 2010 | 10:36 am
#4
Moderator: Budget Travel forum & Credit Card Programs, FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: YYJ/YVR and back on Van Isle ....... for now
Programs: UA lifetime MM / *A Gold
Posts: 14,683
Welcome to FlyerTalk Sussexwoman and jeanrtco !
Just to confirm, what ClimbGuy said.
EmailKid
Just to confirm, what ClimbGuy said.
EmailKid
May 13, 2010 | 3:51 pm
#6
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: YEG
Programs: Aeroplan P
Posts: 191
In fact this is done sometimes for milage runs (ie flying just to gain status miles on extremely cheap fares) in the USA, where on several occassions adding a Canadian city as the last destination cuts the price significantly. People just hop off in the last city before their to Canada segment, lose the miles only for the last segment, but get a really cheap ticket for everything else.
As potfish says, this is against (at least in all I've read) the terms and conditions of purchasing the ticket, however that really doesn't matter.
As potfish says, this is against (at least in all I've read) the terms and conditions of purchasing the ticket, however that really doesn't matter.
May 14, 2010 | 4:08 am
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 5
Thanks to all & thanks for the welcome.
I realised after posting this question that of course, they cannot MAKE you use the reurn portion. I mean, for all they know, I might be run over by a bus on my way to the airport. Or indeed be dead.
I've read THIS:
"As for buying a different return ticket for your trip to Europe, you could buy a completely new return ticket to Europe and just not use the one on BA. Or you could just buy a one way from Europe back to wherever you want to go."
... five times and must confess, I do not understand what you are telling me ClimbGuy.
I realised after posting this question that of course, they cannot MAKE you use the reurn portion. I mean, for all they know, I might be run over by a bus on my way to the airport. Or indeed be dead.
I've read THIS:
"As for buying a different return ticket for your trip to Europe, you could buy a completely new return ticket to Europe and just not use the one on BA. Or you could just buy a one way from Europe back to wherever you want to go."
... five times and must confess, I do not understand what you are telling me ClimbGuy.
May 14, 2010 | 7:47 pm
#8
Join Date: May 2007
Location: NYC
Programs: UA, AA, AGR
Posts: 327