I have a plane ticket from San Fran to Melbourne via LA. We will be in LA at the end of our trip and don't really want to travel to San Fran to only end up back in LA on our way home!
Does anyone have any tips on how we can skip the San Fran to LA leg of our plane ticket without incurring extra costs or forfeiting the ticket?
Virgin reckons it's not possible and we forfeit the ticket if we don't get on in San Fran.
Thanks
Just seems silly we have to fly from LA to Sam Fran , to only then fly back to La for a stopover then back to Melbourne!
Stranger itineraries have been created. I suppose you couldn't get an open jaw itinerary for the same price at the time of booking?
All booked in afraid. Just didnf plan it properly! I did it the ozbargain way… Pay for bargain first, plan later
Seems silly? You booked the ticket!
Not quite right… Your bags will be checked from SFO to MEL. You don't need to collect your bags in LAX.
San Fran is nice though. I'd spend the last days of my trip there over LA!
Its a connecting flight, bags are checked through to the end point. In this case its LA. San Fran is just a 'stop over' to change planes.
Never skip leg day
Nah bro. Everyday is bicep curl day.
You answered your own question in the post.
Virgin reckons it's not possible and we forfeit the ticket if we don't get on in San Fran.
Only Ozbargain members opinions matter. Facts from strangers > business'.
For full fare airlines, you are not able to skip a leg. Doing so will cancel all connecting flights.
For Budget Carriers, such as Jetstar/AirAsia/Scoot, skipping a leg does NOT cancel future flights.
I know… the irony.
That is Very Interesting news to me. I assumed that all would be the same. Do you have any further info? Especially interested in AirAsia. Just googled it thoroughly, and there is some history of this. I still think that it is risky.
The short answer would be, Budget Carriers do not do connecting flights. So, they have no liability if your plane is delayed, thus missing your connection.
Even if they sell you return tickets, the tickets are technically 2 one-way tickets, and not return tickets. (Which is why there isn't a discount for purchasing return tickets.)
I know scoot and jetstar doesn't cancel your connecting tickets. Not sure about AirAsia, my asumption was that it would be the same.
Use a teleporter.
If the airline wants they really can do it. They may charge you a fee though. I have done it with Qantas. Wife was traveling Mel to PHX, via LAX. Mel flight was delayed by 10 hours, resulting in her going to certainly miss the last flight to PHX for the night. Qantas allowed cancellation of the LAX PHX leg, only after the Mel flight had taken off, and I gave a written undertaking that we will not make a travel insurance claim. Qantas otherwise needed a change fee which wasn't cheap.
Return flights remained unchanged.
Does anyone have any tips on how we can skip the San Fran to LA leg of our plane ticket without incurring extra costs or forfeiting the ticket?
I was told the same thing as other posters and it may be true… But..
I booked two adult tickets Sydney to London with BA. My wife couldn't travel and BA would not refund, postpone or transfer the ticket. They told me I had to tell them if I were going to cancel (so they could resell it, presumably).
I did not tell them and I travelled solo.
I checked her in online next to me and for the four flights, both outbound and return her seat was vacant. I remember being asked in London if she was boarding the plane but by this point it was too late for BA to do anything about it.
A passenger next to me asked if they could use my wife's seat for their partner, I declined and explained the situation and how BA point-blank refused to help even though the ticket was over $2000.
Maybe I got lucky..? Maybe checking in helped as by the time they notice she is not there they are pretty much ready to leave.. Who knows… But I did have two seats to London and return so even though it cost an extra 2k I felt a little better that BA couldn't resell it.
I guess you were lucky. Considering she didn't show at the departure gate, they could've allocated the seat to someone on standby. If both seats were under your name, then that wouldn't happen.
Also, all airlines oversell their seats because they expect cancellations and no-shows.
Seat was under her name. I agree, perhaps I was lucky.
Lmao love this
Did you get to eat all her meals?
Nope. I hate plane food. But maybe I should have just taken them anyway…
Did she still get points? I expect so?
A passenger next to me asked if they could use my wife's seat for their partner, I declined and explained the situation and how BA point-blank refused to help even though the ticket was over $2000.
Should have made some money off them!
They weren't very happy with the decline… I kept getting death stares as I watched movies on my tablet that was placed on my 'wife's tray'.
once you miss a leg, the rest go with it.
can only miss the last leg or the ones you don't care about, with out having check in baggage.
i have had to fly to singapore from KUL, just to do a u turn and take a flight from singapore to brunei via KUL
What's the extra cost to forfeit that leg? Is it higher or lower than a one way flight to San Fran to make the flight?
Missing a 'leg' means the remaining ticket flights/legs will become cancelled also, so if you still have a return flight as part of that booking back home, then I wouldn't recommend doing it!
Also be aware, you can't get your bags either in san fran, so you can't skip with checked in bags, as they'll end up in LA.