Just to check: there’s no issue with leaving the flight at the “layover” instead of continuing to your final destination? I mean, I have no objection whatsoever to confusing somebody’s database of “where cbhacking is supposed to be” but if it would lead to legal hassles or similar inconveniences I’d like to know.
See my comment. The airlines will cancel your membership/status for doing this, and if you have any additional legs on a ticket where you skip a leg, all subsequent legs will be cancelled. This will also interfere with routing of your checked baggage, which can affect you even if you don’t intend to check a bag (if the overhead bins are full.)
From what I understand, if your booked flight continues on and you just “get off” earlier, you’re fine. But if your booked flight has a previous leg that you do not actually take, the airline may cancel the entire ticket because the first leg wasn’t used.
I doubt it—this is a trick that high-volume fliers have been using for a while. That said, airlines being annoyed by it is a reasonable concern, though I don’t know what they could possibly do about—forbid you from flying with them? That seems like the sort of thing that would get attention.
Just to check: there’s no issue with leaving the flight at the “layover” instead of continuing to your final destination? I mean, I have no objection whatsoever to confusing somebody’s database of “where cbhacking is supposed to be” but if it would lead to legal hassles or similar inconveniences I’d like to know.
See my comment. The airlines will cancel your membership/status for doing this, and if you have any additional legs on a ticket where you skip a leg, all subsequent legs will be cancelled. This will also interfere with routing of your checked baggage, which can affect you even if you don’t intend to check a bag (if the overhead bins are full.)
From what I understand, if your booked flight continues on and you just “get off” earlier, you’re fine. But if your booked flight has a previous leg that you do not actually take, the airline may cancel the entire ticket because the first leg wasn’t used.
I doubt it—this is a trick that high-volume fliers have been using for a while. That said, airlines being annoyed by it is a reasonable concern, though I don’t know what they could possibly do about—forbid you from flying with them? That seems like the sort of thing that would get attention.
Edit: see new posted warnings.