cvscml

HI all, my apologies if this is not the best place to post this. I had booked a Basic Economy fare for a quick weekend trip for personal reasons. I just learned that I will need to fly across the country on the same day I had planned my return flight. Since my return flight is in the late afternoon, there is not enough time to fly across the country that same day. My question relates to what to do about my return leg of my Basic Economy fare. I know changing or cancelling is not an option, so should I just not show up for the flight? Is there a better option? I don't want to leave the gate crew hanging, but I also don't want to incur any additional fees. Appreciate any help you can provide!

mrcool1122

Just don't check in. No gate agent is losing sleep over no-shows.

SoroSuub1

The best way to get that money back is to hope for a schedule change (1 hour or greater change in departure / arrival time) or a delay on the day of that would allow you to get a refund.

If you booked the flight long enough ago, it is plausible that a schedule change had already occurred - check your initial booking email itinerary against what the Delta site currently lists for your flight.

MikeNYC1

Or hope Delta issues a Weather Waiver for your arrival or departure city. I had a BE ticket booked for last fall that I couldn't fly because of Hurricane Florence. DL had posted a Weather Waiver for it. They allowed me to keep the credit and apply it to a new ticket later on for any city.

NoStressHere

Welcome to Flyertalk. Best advice is just to no-show. If you call to cancel, you are then subject to repricing as a one way ticket which could be very expensive.

Side note - all that other stuff about business, a totally different flight, etc really has nothing to do with the question or any answers.

sydneyracquelle

cvscml

Thanks everyone. I had thought about the flight change but unfortunately it was less than an hour change. Will keep an eye out for weather advisory, but unlikely. I appreciate your help!

cvscml

Thank you for your advice on the no-show. My intent was not to offend you with the details I provided, but rather to provide context so it was easily understood by everyone. Based on some of the other comments, those details were helpful to others.

DiscoPapa

jordyn

I don't think there's any evidence that Delta actually does this, even though other airlines do. I've had overlapping reservations on Delta with no problems.

sydneyracquelle

jordyn

I have never heard of this happening to anyone. I've cancelled tons of return legs with zero problems even when in theory the one-way fare would have been more. Besides, Delta doesn't allow Basic Economy fares to be changed, so how would they argue that you're responsible for paying for one? Most domestic round-trips are really just two one-ways anyway.

ajggiant

Reading the DL Contract of Carriage:

"Delta prohibits duplicate, impossible, or fictitious bookings, including but not limited to multiple conflicting itineraries for the same passenger on the same day or bookings with connections that depart before the arrival of the inbound flight. Delta reserves the right to cancel any such booking which has not been ticketed, and to cancel and refund any such booking which is ticketed at a refundable fare."

I assume that per usual practice for domestic flights both of OPs flights are "ticketed". Reading the above Delta has reserved the right to 1) cancel bookings which have not been ticketed or 2) cancel and refund ticketed bookings at a refundable fare. Unless I'm reading it wrong, I do not read here that Delta reserves the right to cancel ticketed nonrefundable fare bookings (which would include the BE fare and also likely OPs other booking).

MSPeconomist

wds17

Same with B6. In fact I called them one time to confirm.