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Ayahuasca said:
Slight flaw - I could miss the connecting flight, but my luggage wouldn't 
Just spent four hours on tinterweb sorting out the most convoluted trip in the world, involving planes, trains, coaches and a boat.. I hate this
Are you no longer allowed to opt to transfer your own luggage?Just spent four hours on tinterweb sorting out the most convoluted trip in the world, involving planes, trains, coaches and a boat.. I hate this
Just call the company and see what they say would be the easiest.
Mutley said:
Why not just book A>B do the train/car thing to travel to C, then your return of C>A ?
Surely that'd be easier. Give yourself the option of an internal flight if you want the B>C leg, buy your ticket at airport B.
Yes it's easy enough to book tickets that match your itinerary - I often do Australia trips flying into one city and flying back from another. So long as the airline flies to both places it isn't a problem.Surely that'd be easier. Give yourself the option of an internal flight if you want the B>C leg, buy your ticket at airport B.
Depends entirely on the airline and the ticket you have booked. It is usual for an airline cancel the rest of your segments if you don't turn up for one of them after you have traveled the initial segment. For example, if you booked London to Bangkok return on Singapore Airlines then got off at Singapore with the intention of making your way overland to Bangkok, you would find that the entire rest of your journey would be canceled.
You needn't worry about luggage though, as soon as you don't board the flight it will be offloaded.
These days, many airlines just seem to sell one-way tickets at good prices, certainly that's the model budget airlines use and many full-service ones now do the same. For short-haul I would have thought it relatively easy and cheap to string together a series of one-way flights that are independent of one another.
You needn't worry about luggage though, as soon as you don't board the flight it will be offloaded.
These days, many airlines just seem to sell one-way tickets at good prices, certainly that's the model budget airlines use and many full-service ones now do the same. For short-haul I would have thought it relatively easy and cheap to string together a series of one-way flights that are independent of one another.
That sounds like an openjaw ticket - you cannot normally book them online. For instance London to San Francisco then return from LA to London with a road trip between is quite common. With an openjaw ticket, you don't risk being a no-show and having the rest of the booking cancelled.
Call the airline - if it is BA then they may/should waive the telephone booking fee if you point out that you cannot book this online.
Call the airline - if it is BA then they may/should waive the telephone booking fee if you point out that you cannot book this online.
online they try and force you to book two singles which increases the price quite a bit from a simple return on long haul. However:- Shorthaul with BA a simple return is always presented as the aggregate cost of two singles, at least when I book it. Oddly just looking at one where two singles is actually marginally cheaper than a return due to X-rate issues as the return flight is costed in the foreign currency.
thehawk said:
Depends entirely on the airline and the ticket you have booked. It is usual for an airline cancel the rest of your segments if you don't turn up for one of them after you have traveled the initial segment.
I was told that too - wanted to fly Manchester to Toronto but the flight would have been waay cheaper (literally half the price) if we'd booked to Boston, which was the same flight to Toronto and then an onwards shuttle.Would have been no problem with baggage as we'd have had to collect to go through Customs in Toronto.
However the airline was adamant that they'd cancel the return journey if we didn't fly on the Toronto to Boston leg.
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