Question about flying nonstop and flying one stop?
Ok so im trying to fly to Indianpolis from Seattle. There are no nonstop flights from Seattle to Indianapolis. I am going college visiting on the last week of march. I will be goign to detroit and indianapolis. Ok so while searching for airlines and good prices, I found that flying to detroit nonstop costs $599 per person, while flying to indianapolis with 1 stop costs $125 per person. I wanted to fly directly to detroit and then dive to indianpolis and fly back home to seattle, but that costs way too much. But if I fly to indianapolis and drive to detroit it will take too much time. I found a flight from Seattle to Indianapolis, and its a 1 stop flight. But, the thing is, the stop it makes is at detroit. So is it ok for me to just get off at that first stop and not make the complete flight to indianapolis? Because it costs $599 just to go straight to detriot, so I figured, if I just do a 1 stop flight to indianapolis and get off at the first stop, detroit, I could save like $400 dollars. So my question is, is this legal? What do you suggest I do? so there is no way to retrieve my bags? =[
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1 :
sure it's legal, but the airline will cancel the rest of your flights, and hopefully you don't have a bag to check, because it will go to IND
2 :
ONE problem with that is your bag will be on the flight to indianapolis if you did that.. They take it right off the plane and onto your connecion plane when they scan it or it could be on a totally different plane going to indianapolis.
3 :
Since you plugged SEA-IND, it will show up all possible ways, including a flight which has one stop. Of course, if someone wanting to fly to Detroit, they'd get a one-step flight. Say that's what you want now.. right? Then that's totally legal! It's your choice on how you want to fly. If you wanted to fly to Indianapolis with a ticket paying the fare to Detroit, of course you won't be getting that second ticket when you check-in.
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Two problems: 1. I assume you want to return back to Seattle. The airline will cancel the rest of your ticket, with no refund, when you don't show up for your flight from Detroit to Indy. So then you'd have to book a one-way ticket back to Seattle, and there is a good chance it would cost more than what you are saving this way. 2. If you have checked bags, they automatically go to your final destination. You can't retrieve your bags in Detroit when you decide to bail on your second flight. So you'd have to do carry-on only. It's hard to catch people for doing it when they skip out on the last leg of a flight or itinerary. But when you purchase a ticket, that is considered a contract between you and the airline, and you break it when you start skipping out on flights.
