Skip last leg of flight
Jan 1, 2017, 3:41 pm
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As long as by "last flight," you mean the last leg of a one-way trip or the last leg of the return flight of a round-trip. If you skip the last leg of the out-bound trip of a round trip, you could get stuck with no return ticket.
Jan 1, 2017, 3:53 pm
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If you get caught, it could get expensive. It's also fraud. And it's unethical.
Don't do it.
Jan 2, 2017, 7:22 am
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Also depends on whether there are other ways to get to your ticketed final destination without going through the city where you want to get off. If anything goes wrong with your original flight - mechanical, overbooking, whatever - the airline is within its rights to get you to where they think your destination is any way the want to. After all, that's where you told them you wanted to go, and that's where they promised to take you. For many origin-destination pairs, that might not involve a plane change in the city where you plan to leave. (That said, if you find yourself there and decide to bail, as already posted nothing will happen if you don't make a habit of it.)
Jan 2, 2017, 9:42 am
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you don't "need" to inform the airline; some people do so as a courtesy (maybe an hour or so before scheduled departure) so that the seat can be put back into inventory
I wouldn't do that at the airport, however ... phone call is best
I wouldn't do that at the airport, however ... phone call is best
Jan 3, 2017, 1:38 am
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Jan 3, 2017, 12:45 pm
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If you don't show up for the last leg of the flight and don't call ahead, you will be considered a "no-show," they will give away your seat if there is a standby, and they will leave without you. If you call ahead of time, they will consider you a "no-show," they will give your seat to a standby, and leave without you.
Jan 3, 2017, 9:48 pm
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Depending on the routing and how long ago you booked your ticket, you may be able to recover some residual value from the last leg if you cancel it. If not, then skipping the last leg won't hurt you unless you do it too often. Don't say anything, just leave the airport. Airlines are used to no-shows. However, there is a very small chance that you could get rerouted to your final destination via another route that doesn't go to your intended intermediate point.
Feb 8, 2017, 4:36 am
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And what are the procedure to reclaim my bags later?
Thanks a lot!
Feb 8, 2017, 5:25 am
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You will spend a lot of time in Tokyo trying to get reconnected with your bags. The airline may then (but realistically probably won't) reprice your ticket as if were to Tokyo. You would also suffer bad karma because you inconvenienced a lot of people as you will have held up the HKG flight.