No Show / Skipping / or Flying United Airlines Flight Segment(s) Out of Order?
Dec 6, 2023, 2:40 pm
#91
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From my personal experience, I avoid mixing any personal and work travels...any adjustments from itinerary change repricing just make it wholly complicated from a settlement/reimbursement standpoint. Also, work has no business knowing what my personal itinerary is.
Personally, I would fly the two unnecessary flights, but that's just me. I am someone who has flown from SFO to YYZ to start the first leg of personal travel, which was YYZ to SFO.
On a separate occasion, I replied to my employer N O (and nothing else in the reply) when they asked me to stop by SFO on my TPAC flight home to east coast, to close a M&A deal. I flew PEK to EWR as scheduled, and then separate EWR to SFO roundtrip when I was good and ready....
Personally, I would fly the two unnecessary flights, but that's just me. I am someone who has flown from SFO to YYZ to start the first leg of personal travel, which was YYZ to SFO.
On a separate occasion, I replied to my employer N O (and nothing else in the reply) when they asked me to stop by SFO on my TPAC flight home to east coast, to close a M&A deal. I flew PEK to EWR as scheduled, and then separate EWR to SFO roundtrip when I was good and ready....
Dec 7, 2023, 6:49 pm
#93
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I agree that keeping personal and work travel separate is a good thing…hence the separate nested flights. But when you live in Hawaii, returning and stArting a separate trip is both time consuming and expensive. And nesting flights is what caused the issue OP is asking about.
Dec 7, 2023, 7:42 pm
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I agree that keeping personal and work travel separate is a good thing…hence the separate nested flights. But when you live in Hawaii, returning and stArting a separate trip is both time consuming and expensive. And nesting flights is what caused the issue OP is asking about.
Dec 8, 2023, 3:31 am
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Jan 13, 2024, 11:37 am
#96
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I have a flight booked from MSY to my final destination Montreal (YUL) via a tight connection in Chicago (ORD). I'm now thinking of wanting to spend a couple days in Chicago and there is a cheap flight back from ORD to YUL that I can book directly with United/AC a few days later.
Question: How much of a risk is there if I skip that flight to ORD-YUL - booked with mileage plus number - and fly *A quite frequently but have never skip a leg before purposely but definitely have missed flights either due to being late (Vegas late last year), poor/tight connections etc. and then rebooked a separate flight to my final destination without raising any red flags so far.
Planning to have no checked bags
Question: How much of a risk is there if I skip that flight to ORD-YUL - booked with mileage plus number - and fly *A quite frequently but have never skip a leg before purposely but definitely have missed flights either due to being late (Vegas late last year), poor/tight connections etc. and then rebooked a separate flight to my final destination without raising any red flags so far.
Planning to have no checked bags
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Jan 13, 2024, 11:46 am
#97
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I have a flight booked from MSY to my final destination Montreal (YUL) via a tight connection in Chicago (ORD). I'm now thinking of wanting to spend a couple days in Chicago and there is a cheap flight back from ORD to YUL that I can book directly with United/AC a few days later.
Question: How much of a risk is there if I skip that flight to ORD-YUL - booked with mileage plus number - and fly *A quite frequently but have never skip a leg before purposely but definitely have missed flights either due to being late (Vegas late last year), poor/tight connections etc. and then rebooked a separate flight to my final destination without raising any red flags so far.
Planning to have no checked bags
Question: How much of a risk is there if I skip that flight to ORD-YUL - booked with mileage plus number - and fly *A quite frequently but have never skip a leg before purposely but definitely have missed flights either due to being late (Vegas late last year), poor/tight connections etc. and then rebooked a separate flight to my final destination without raising any red flags so far.
Planning to have no checked bags
If OW and not bags, you are generally OK. The worst case would be a schedule change or irrops and UA tries to route you thru a different airport. Then you will have to get you back route thru ORD.
For a round-trip, this is a problem an the return will be canceled
Jan 13, 2024, 1:54 pm
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I have a flight booked from MSY to my final destination Montreal (YUL) via a tight connection in Chicago (ORD). I'm now thinking of wanting to spend a couple days in Chicago and there is a cheap flight back from ORD to YUL that I can book directly with United/AC a few days later.
Question: How much of a risk is there if I skip that flight to ORD-YUL - booked with mileage plus number - and fly *A quite frequently but have never skip a leg before purposely but definitely have missed flights either due to being late (Vegas late last year), poor/tight connections etc. and then rebooked a separate flight to my final destination without raising any red flags so far.
Planning to have no checked bags
Question: How much of a risk is there if I skip that flight to ORD-YUL - booked with mileage plus number - and fly *A quite frequently but have never skip a leg before purposely but definitely have missed flights either due to being late (Vegas late last year), poor/tight connections etc. and then rebooked a separate flight to my final destination without raising any red flags so far.
Planning to have no checked bags
Jan 13, 2024, 3:22 pm
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I have a flight booked from MSY to my final destination Montreal (YUL) via a tight connection in Chicago (ORD). I'm now thinking of wanting to spend a couple days in Chicago and there is a cheap flight back from ORD to YUL that I can book directly with United/AC a few days later.
I do not believe this extends to *A status that is not with UA (e.g. Star Gold), and of course if there's a cheap ORD-YUL flight for your desired date, that may be preferable to the anxiety over having to constantly change flights and race to the airport when nothing later is available but if you do have status, it's a fun way to play the game in the right situation (and not violate the CoC, not that they'll enforce it strictly in this case).
Mar 13, 2024, 5:19 am
#100
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No-Show leg of open jaw booking
Say my departure trip is from city A to city B, and my return trip is from City C to City D.
The departure trip involves a connecting flight that connects in city E. So we have:
Departure: A->E->B
Return: C->D
E->B leg is not on United (still booked through United). If I no show this leg, will they cancel the return leg? Will they even know?
The departure trip involves a connecting flight that connects in city E. So we have:
Departure: A->E->B
Return: C->D
E->B leg is not on United (still booked through United). If I no show this leg, will they cancel the return leg? Will they even know?
Mar 13, 2024, 6:28 am
#101
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Say my departure trip is from city A to city B, and my return trip is from City C to City D.
The departure trip involves a connecting flight that connects in city E. So we have:
Departure: A->E->B
Return: C->D
E->B leg is not on United (still booked through United). If I no show this leg, will they cancel the return leg? Will they even know?
The departure trip involves a connecting flight that connects in city E. So we have:
Departure: A->E->B
Return: C->D
E->B leg is not on United (still booked through United). If I no show this leg, will they cancel the return leg? Will they even know?
Yes and Yes.
You can book two one-way trips to avoid the potential cancellation.
Good luck.