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A direct flight to Maui is $268 for the "to" leg. The same airline offers a flight to Honolulu, with a plane change on Maui, for $164. What would happen if I booked the flight to Honolulu and just got off, with my carry-on, on Maui, and didn't go on to Honolulu?

Dave
 
If it's a round-trip flight, they might cancel your flight home. Can you book 2-one ways?
 
hibbert6 said:
A direct flight to Maui is $268 for the "to" leg. The same airline offers a flight to Honolulu, with a plane change on Maui, for $164. What would happen if I booked the flight to Honolulu and just got off, with my carry-on, on Maui, and didn't go on to Honolulu?

Dave
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The plane would be detained at the gate until the airline was able to reconcile the passenger manifest with the number of passengers on the plane. They would eventually identify that you were the missing passenger.

If they can't adequately verify and establish what happened to you, they also might need to do a complete search of the plane for bombs or incendiary devices, because they have to assume that you might be a terrorist who planted a bomb and got off the plane so you wouldn't go down with the plane.

Finally, the return portion of your trip would get cancelled because you would be classed as a no show on the last leg of your flight.

All in all, it's probably not a good idea to do.
 
What if I ...

OK, what if I did book the return as a separate flight, and told the gate agent for the 2nd leg that I wasn't going to be boarding? Could they MAKE me get on???:eek:
 
I used to do this ALL the time before 9/11...no problems. Haven't tried it since then, and I don't see how they can make you get on.
 
I haven't tried a break in the middle of the trip, but last year my son decided to stay in Dallas on the way back from Maui to visit his grandparents, while the rest of us came on home. There was no big deal about it. I didn't notice any particular commotion from the gate agents and the trip for us went on uneventfully. I would be afraid to do it in the middle of a trip because the airline might cancel the rest of my legs.
 
I skipped the last leg of my trip in 2004. (Got off in Cincinnati instead of continuing on to Indianapolis.) There were no repercussions. There are no guarantees, though. In theory they could charge you the price of the trip from your destination to Maui.
 
I asked this very question here on TUG a few months ago.

We bought our three RT tickets to Maui (where we will be for the second week), but the plane stops in HNL. We need to get to Kauai, so I wondered if we could just stay in HNL and hop from there. Seems silly to go to Maui, then back to Kauai, probably through HNL again. :rolleyes:

I guess we are stuck flying island to island until we get to Kauai, but the flight times are also going to be a consideration. I am sure this comes up ofte with the airlines. You would think they would release you from the obligation of getting on a flight that they could sell to another passenger. ;) The luggage would be our only problem because it would not make it to Kauai, unless we could check it through a cooperating airline. Something to think about, certainly. We don't need much that first day, so going back to the airport would be okay with us.
 
It's not that easy. Many airlines will delay the flight to locate and remove your luggage as a security threat. It's a variable as to where it will end up.
 
A lot of people don't realize this, but some airlines (e.g. Delta) will allow you to fly into one island (e.g. Maui) and then home from another island (Kauai) on one RT ticket.
 
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