Well, seeing as I have no other realistic options, I suppose I will just have to give this my best shot and see what happens.

I will report back on how it goes.

What does this mean?

Depending on your fare rules, there may be different fees / penalties for cancelling a segment than for changing it. In any event, it is worth a call to ask the very specific question, e.g. "I would like to cancel my JFK-LAS segment. Can you do that and what will it cost?"

If the ticket is one where a change made after some segments have been flown is repriced at the historic prices and the fare classes that you purchased are still available then this might work, but you would still have to pay the change fee.

I mean I have no other realistic options because once they remove the LAS segment the price shoots up (fare diff + change fee) enough that it begins to make more sense to buy a separate OW KUL -> Home.

Hence, I will just call them upon landing in NYC and claim I 'missed the connection and had to buy my own flight', and request that they don't cancel the rest of the segments.

Long shot but we'll see how it goes...

I doubt that will work, but suppose you did go this way, what would you do if they asked for evidence of this separate flight to LAS you took?

By that time your ticket would have already been marked void.

A separate fully refundable ticket booked on delta I suppose.

I will call them BEFORE the JFK-LAS flight departs but after luggage drop closes. I believe the ticket will be valid till the boarding time closes.

I do realize the whole plan is a long shot but it's the only thing left to try short of just abandoning the return segment.

It is more than a long shot , it is pretty much an impossible shot. Unless you are happy just to throw the ticket in the bin, this seems like the worst of options. If you miss the flight at best it may agree to put you on a later flight or send you back to EK to rebook. There is basically no chance that it will just allow the flight to be missed

Your realistic choices are
fly to LAS and then return back to New York and then continue on to Kuala Lumpur
Pay the change fee and fare difference to remove the New York to Las Vegas flight
Cancel ticket in New York and collect any refund amount

The airline is not going to give you a free change of destination

That doesn't seem realistic. You think they will give the OP money back? Almost never do you get money back (sometimes you owe them money). If OP had a flexible ticket then the change wouldn't be so much.

That’s not evidence of travel.

The first option involves 10 hours of flying NYC-JFK-NYC. Note that my KUL legs are in March. The second option doesn't make sense as I called Emirates and the amount they quoted to remove the JFK-LAS segment was more than a direct OW flight from KUL-HOME. As for the third option, I will bring it up if they refuse to let me continue my journey on the story that I had to buy my own JFK-LAS flight (though I doubt they will refund any significant amount).

BTW, if they agree to reschedule the JFK-LAS flight to a later date (like a month later) that would be acceptable to me...




You're right of course. But as I will call them before this Delta flight and the og Alaska segment (JFK-LAS) takes off, it will be as good a proof as possible at the time.

Almost all (maybe all) EK tickets are refundable for a fee.

If the ticket allows a stopover, then you will be able to do it now - if not , the airline will not allow the stopover

It seems that you want the impossible

I think that your best ( possibly only feable ) option is to fly to Las Vegas and fly back again. your other plans are looking to buy expensive tickets

:rolleyes:

I'm done arguing with you, please do report back if you are part of that 2% ;)