Intentially missing return flight?
 

Hi all, I have a question and after searching around for a while on the internet for answers (+ giving up after spending 40 mins on hold to US airways) I've decided to just ask it myself.

Basically I'm scheduled to go to New York (from London) for a week long holiday next month (7 Oct -> 15 Oct) on US airways.

However, I've now found out that work want to send me out to Hawaii a week later, on the 23rd. They're happy to fly me out from anywhere, so I've got a great idea of intentially missing my return flight home, grabbing a quick flight to Toronto to visit family for a week, and then work should pay for my Toronto -> Hawaii and, the week later, my Hawaii -> London flights.

My question is, is this allowed? Will it be on my passport info or whatever that I'm meant to be leaving the US on the 15th; will they care that I'm actually going somewhere else before heading home? I don't want to get to the gate and find out I'm in trouble for not leaving when I was supposed to or something.

I don't really care about losing the value of the flight from NY -> London, since the flight from NY -> Toronto is cheap as chips and my work is paying for the Hawaii flights. I'm just not sure whether I legally have to tell US airways I don't want to fly home with them.

Thanks for your help.

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Just my 2c, I think it might be OK to do this. If you miss one segment of your trip, the airline cancels the rest of your trip. In this case it's OK because JFK-LHR is the last leg of the trip.

Intentially missing return flight?
 

Last leg no worries.

While you can walk way from the return without issue, it might be worth looking at paying the change fee and changing the dates such that you go JFK->Hawaii->JFK->LHR. And separately buy a JFK->Toronto->JFK ticket. That is:


LHR->JFK - original ticket

JFK->Toronto->JFK - You buy

JFK-Hawaii->JFK - employer buys

JFK->LHR original ticket with new dates employer pays for change and any other fare costs.

Such nesting of tickets is completely acceptable with the airlines.

Only worth while if your employer will pay the change fee and any other associated costs but yet save some money overall as an open jaw ticket Toronto->Hawaii->London is most likely going to be fairly expensive (in fact may be considered two oneway tickets).