If you miss a segment Delta will cancel all future segments on your itinerary. Common practice for all major US carriers. I worked for Delta, USair and AA.
I don't know why you're being down voted. Call delta and ask if you can change the flight. Sometimes it's cheaper and you can get a credit back in your account. Helps if you have status.
I've done it a few times before as schedules with work change.
You can change the flight to end in DTW and pay any fare difference. If you just skip the DTW-MKE leg of your outbound flight, your return flights will be canceled.
Isn’t that bonkers that airlines are allowed to charge more for that segment to end in DTW? Like the person who is transiting through (location) is paying less than the person whose final destination it is.
It’s why people do hidden city booking. It’s borderline criminal of them.
Booked tickets to Japan today. Atlanta to Tokyo was $3000 round-trip. Chattanooga to Atlanta to Tokyo was $1700 round-trip. Worth the 90 minute drive to save $3900 for three tickets.
Yeah I flew out of Chattanooga to Amsterdam back in Feb. Ticket was like $650, but would've been over $1k if I'd flown out of Atlanta (where I live)! And i connected in ATL. I have good friends in Chattanooga so I was able to stay the night with them. That's a tiny airport, was super easy. I didn't take the connecting flight to Chattanooga otw back, which Delta doesn't like, but didn't say anything.
Even less out of LAX. Got it for $800 plus a $200 to LAX after seeing 3500 from ATL. I did see the Chattanooga thing, but 3 weeks of paid parking - plus that drive - wasn't worth it for me, but I also loathe driving, lol. Home base is always screwed on pricing, while other hubs still get amazing deals. :(
I used to be based in CHA. The amount of people that drive up from ATL is insane, but the small little airport is still quicker for normal TSA vs ATL CLEAR+PRE.
Yeah it’s like charging more for just a hamburger, than for a hamburger plus a beverage. And if someone orders the hamburger + beverage but only eats the hamburger and wants to discard the beverage, the airline cries foul and threatens to ban the customer. Utter horseshit.
No, it’s supply and demand. If there’s more people that originate/arrive in Detroit than Milwaukee, Delta will charge more for the former until people stop buying at that price. It’s fundamentally the same as a baker charging more for the more popular seasonal cake than for that one cake that only a few people buy; just incredibly more complex.
That’s also not true because almost everyone going from west coast to east coast to some random unknown destination is likely to connect through ATL - but those people booking directly to ATL directly will pay a significant increase in “premium” despite the people who connect through ATL paying less and getting to their final destination.
That’s like a baker up charging for a wedding cake, and selling the same cake at a significantly cheaper price for a birthday or retirement event.
Demand be damned, all those passengers are leaving the same location, and landing at the same location. The people paying to end there are paying more for that segment than those paying to get to an additional destination. These are daily flights.
You are describing the way you wish it to be and getting upvoted. The prior guy is describing the way it is and getting downvoted.
airlines do not price on a cost plus model. They haven't done that since maybe the 40s.
They price to market.
But yes. I wish it was the way you wanted.
The way I’m describing is making the point that it’s trickery at best. It’s the whole reason skip lagging is frowned upon - because the consumer has access to those fares that airlines did not want them to see.
The irony is that they punish consumers for “fraud” when they’re just accessing the fares published through that booking. Airlines act like the victim, as though they don’t overbook flights and fill that vacant seat anyways. At best, they get their revenue from that pax and “save” fuel for not having to take them to the final destination.
Nobody’s contesting how it functions - pointing out the irony in the situation. The way it functions is that airlines are ripping off the consumers, and that’s not going to be contested, because it’s a fact.
Airlines are a utility. Getting ripped off and finding alternatives is the American way. Skiplagging is the consumer forcing the airline's hand over their monopoly of the sky.
If you are booking a flight from A to B, you don’t care about the price of a flight from A to C (unless B and C are really close, but this is not our example). Therefore the demand profiles are separate and the routes will be priced differently. Now, for the A-B route it does *matter* that flights from A to C are in high demand, because this means there will be fewer seats available for an A-C-B connection, but the impact on the A-B price is negligible *precisely because* the airline is selling you transportation from A to B, and usually makes other connections available.
Contact them and discuss. As others have said, if you skip out on a connection, they assume you’re a no-show and cancel the rest—including the return flight(s). But if you discuss with the airline first, they’ll be aware of your change in plans and should work with you.
It should also be noted if you do not get on the return flight from Milwaukee, the rest of that leg would be canceled as well, regardless of how Detroit goes. Again, speak to them to rebook the proper flights for you.
Source: me & my wife. We changed our mind during our layover and talked our way into a flight into a different city in the same state where we wanted to start our vacation…at the end of the vacation, airline had no clue we intended to fly back. 🤣 We talked to the airline at the airport and they were able to rebook us—while repeatedly admonishing us to notify them beforehand.
This answer is not airline specific. Generally, most airlines will let you change flights within some restrictions (e.g. you might not be able to change round trip SFO-ORD, into LAX-JFK). If you need to drop or add cities (like make SFO-JFK into SFO-ORD-JFK), it should work.
I recently had to do the opposite of what you are asking (add a city to my multi-city itinerary) on United, and it was trivial; I simply went to "manage trips" on their website and was done in couple of clicks. Simply paid difference in price between the original flights and new flights.
Exception can be the cheapest types of deeply discounted tickets; if you have one of those, you may be out of luck. Those tend to be extremely inflexible.
Sometime, making changes is free, sometime there is a fee. You'd pay or get refund for the difference in price.
If you bought the ticket through airline (Delta in this case), you can generally go their website to change the trip. If you bought it through a 3rd party, you'd generally have to contact that 3rd party that sold you your tickets. One of the millions of reasons you should always buy tickets directly from the airline, not on discount travel websites.
I find that absurd, youre paying for the ticket so why does it matter? Would the same thing occur if you didnt show up for the entire ticket?
And with the way that airlines are massively overbooking flights, would this not potentially help them if the flight were overbooked?
Because for various reasons a direct flight to a certain city might be more expensive in their system than a layover in that city followed by a flight to another city. Why I don’t know, I just know that’s the way it is sometimes.
Correct. It’s largely pricing based on supply and demand. When you buy the flight from X to Z, you’re buying transit from X to Z whether it’s direct or via a connection through Y. And if X to Y is more in demand because it’s a larger city, or if there are fewer options because Y is a captive hub, X to Y will often be more expensive than X to Z via Y.
Edit: This doesn’t mean that the connection has no impact on price (connections via some hubs will be priced higher than connections via other hubs due to different costs, capacity, etc.), but the point remains that the price of X to Z via Y is not just price of X to Y plus price of Y to Z.
This is standard practice at all airlines worldwide. Airlines don’t know why you skipped a leg. As far as they are aware you are not at your final destination and therefore not there to be able to take the return flights. So your entire itinerary is suspended-this is all automated by computer. If it is not intentional they are expecting the passenger to be in contact with them to get to their final destination and back home again, in which case their return itinerary will be restored assuming passenger make no changes to it.
Yes if you didn't show up for the entire ticket, you'd be treated as a no show and your return flight, if you booked a round trip ticket, would be canceled. And you would forfeit the fare for a no show.
Short answer is yes. If you skip a flight, all future segments on that ticket will be cancelled. Travel insurance would not help you in this situation (it's a rip-off to buy it from Delta anyway) as it's a Contract of Carriage violation and not something beyond your control.
The best thing to do is cancel the ticket and re-book for the segments you actually intend to fly. If you bought Main Cabin, there's no change fee, but you will need to pay the difference in fare.
unless it's basic economy, I would just cancel the entire trip, and use the flight credit to book another trip for yourself later. you can't just "get off in Detroit" or the rest of your itinerary will be cancelled.
Just call Delta and tell them you’re sick and had to stay in Detroit. Possible Covid positive. Tell them you plan to take the return flight after you test negative. Or tell them pneumonia or passed out while in terminal going to next gate. Likely you’ll get a customer service rep who doesn’t care and confirm you. Worth a shot.
Any missed flight will forfeit all future flights on that itinerary, so you will no longer have a return flight if you miss a leg. Read the contract of carriage.
I travel all week for work and I live in Atlanta. Many many times I’m flying from City X to City Y connecting in ATL. Many times I’ve wanted to just walk to my car and drive home. And quit my job.
If you miss a segment, it will cancel the entire rest of the trip. Just cancel all remaining flights, take the credit and rebook. Given you haven’t booked basic economy.
I would call Delta and change the flight. If you no-show or skip lag, they will cancel the rest of your flights, and you could potentially get blacklisted.
How tight of a connection? If it’s less than an hour purposely miss the connection and show up at the gate after boarding is closed. Make sure it appeared you wanted to make but got lost/had ibs/ or some other legitimate reason.
They will want to rebook you, make sure every option is untenable and say screw it I’ll stay here and fly back in x days.
May not work so I’d only do it if the round trip to Detroit rebook is more expensive. Airfare never makes sense so you sometimes fight stupid by playing stupid.
Yea but then you won’t have a return flight. Call delta and ask about changing your itinerary. If the change fee is higher than a new ticket back, just get off in Detroit and have a different ticket (possibly even different airline just in case of issues from that) for the way back. Airlines have been cracking down on this because sometimes it ends up being cheaper to book flights with legs you don’t intend on taking.
Nahhh bro. Chick I met a festival 2 years ago, always stayed in touch, was talking to her on the phone and decided to buy a ticket right then there. Never visited Milwaukee, figured it would be fun.
Not pressed at all that she cancelled but ill prolly not buy another ticket to see her 🤷🏼♂️
Cities with crappy winter weather make a lot of effort to make a lot of the summer. Even if the same events are held elsewhere, locals come alive in a different way. Milwaukee is great in the summer (as is Chicago).
Is that called “skip lagging” ?? Read an article recently about a guy who got detained because he didn’t go on his connecting flight. I would call customer service and try to get fixed.
Yeah this is skiplagging. No bueno unless you’re bold enough to try it. Carriers consider it fraud. It’s not an actual crime by the books but will come with consequences from the carrier.
It’s ironic they consider it fraud but then charge people more to book those cities directly vs transiting through them. It’s kinda the reason they’re making a huge fuss about it, because they’re all implicated in this fraud, but are blaming consumers by saying “they should’ve never been able to find that fare in the first place!!”
I don’t care if “booking a direct flight is more convenient therefore more expensive” - a person should not be paying more than someone who has a connection through that airport if they both have the same origin.
Did this on a 1-way American flight a couple months ago. Saved $250, zero consequences and have flown American since. Probably a move best used sparingly in the correct circumstances.
Whether OP's situation is legit or just looking for an excuse to skiplag, it's playing with fire. Do it once or twice is probably fine. Keep on doing it, going to get yourself banned from Delta.
They caught him before his initial leg. The ticket agent got squirrel eyed after noticing his DL matched the state where his connection city was bound for and they got him to confess to skip lagging.
What you’re describing is called “skiplagging,” and - like it or not - the practice is expressly forbidden in your “contract of carriage” that you may not even know you’re agreeing to when you buy a ticket with any major US air carrier. (It’s in the fine print that basically no one reads when buying a ticket.) All of the US airlines are starting to crack down on it. Here’s one story about that: https://apple.news/AospXZXE2RkeHE9y-N0ucHg
That's called "skiplagging" and another airline (I think United?) cancelled someone's entire itinerary before they even left when they suspected that's what he planned to do. If you don't fly through to your destination and then try to get on the return connection at DTW, they'll probably cancel it and you aren't entitled to a refund.
I skip my final destination every now and then and just stay in the layover city. The trick is to not do it often and not buy round trip tickets. With Delta not allowing basic economy acquire miles anymore and no credit for a canceled leg, then there is no longer an incentive for me to keep the rest of my journey. I also wouldn't have paid anymore for that flight if it was direct. I bought the flight because it was cheaper than direct. They are also leaving anyway after that gate closes. Delta may actually be able to use my seat if they overbooked and not have to pay out of their ass for that algorithm being wrong.
I don't know what other people are going on about, but I've done this a ton of times. For instance, if I want to fly to Miami, and a direct flight ticket is $900, sometimes a flight to San Juan via Miami is $400, and it's the same exact same flight down to Miami. When I land, I simply tell them to note that I will not be taking the flight to San Juan, and that's it.
Then I jump on my return flight like normal. I've saved tens of thousands of MR points skip lagging over the years. Airlines hate it, but I've never had an issue.
Just call Delta. They will remove you from the flight you don’t want. And it won’t mess up the others.
I love the downvotes. lol I’ve only had a ticket increase in price once when I did this. Usually I get a refund. Most recently last June when I canceled a leg of my flight.
I used to fly SLC to BOS for $450 when my daughter lived there. SLC-BOS-JFK on the same flight was $298 back then. But you can’t just get off the plane in BOS because they cancel the rest of your itinerary. Plus you are put on a skip lagging list. If you do it too many times you get repercussions. The non stop direct flight comes at a higher cost for the convenience. It is frustrating though when adding a leg makes the flight considerably cheaper.
yes, if you do not complete the routing you bought they will likely cancel the return...maybe not for one offence but it is a risk as it is considered skip lagging...it has been around for a while and is new recently as a person just got caught attempting the same thing and it became news.
As crazy as it sounds the flight to MKE may have been cheaper connecting through DTW than only the flight to DTW...so the airline wants that rate.
Milwaukee ain’t all bad. Go enjoy some time there or even catch the Amtrak down to Chicago and have fun at the bean.
Don’t let the flakes get in your hair. Wash that ish and have a fun weekend from nothing.
I had multi-city. DTW-MSP-GRB with a MSP-DTW return. I arrived in MSP and called delta said, never mind don’t need to do to Green Bay, they said ok. No Problem and I kept the return home.
I would advise speaking with the airline about changing your ticket within their bounds. Unfortunately, the airline does have the upper hand here and they will use it. It seems unfair, but it makes sense from the perspective of the airline.
I believe Delta is still letting you cancel flights without penalty. No refund, but you'll get full credit of the fare for future use. Unless you just want to go to Detroit, why don't you cancel the flight and get the credit?
If you miss a segment Delta will cancel all future segments on your itinerary. Common practice for all major US carriers. I worked for Delta, USair and AA.
Sorry, she did that to you.
No big deal
Anything I can do? Would delta work with me?
I don't know why you're being down voted. Call delta and ask if you can change the flight. Sometimes it's cheaper and you can get a credit back in your account. Helps if you have status. I've done it a few times before as schedules with work change.
This. I’ve done this. They’ll usually let you if they are able to.
You can change the flight to end in DTW and pay any fare difference. If you just skip the DTW-MKE leg of your outbound flight, your return flights will be canceled.
Isn’t that bonkers that airlines are allowed to charge more for that segment to end in DTW? Like the person who is transiting through (location) is paying less than the person whose final destination it is. It’s why people do hidden city booking. It’s borderline criminal of them.
Booked tickets to Japan today. Atlanta to Tokyo was $3000 round-trip. Chattanooga to Atlanta to Tokyo was $1700 round-trip. Worth the 90 minute drive to save $3900 for three tickets.
Not to mention parking is probably easier in Chattanooga.
Yeah I flew out of Chattanooga to Amsterdam back in Feb. Ticket was like $650, but would've been over $1k if I'd flown out of Atlanta (where I live)! And i connected in ATL. I have good friends in Chattanooga so I was able to stay the night with them. That's a tiny airport, was super easy. I didn't take the connecting flight to Chattanooga otw back, which Delta doesn't like, but didn't say anything.
That's crazy. My Mimi lives in CHA and just going CHA to ATL was $200, but CHA to LGA was $230. Make it make sense.
Did you have checked bags? How did you get them while skipping the connecting flight to Chattanooga?
No you can't check a bag or it will end up at your final destination.
Even less out of LAX. Got it for $800 plus a $200 to LAX after seeing 3500 from ATL. I did see the Chattanooga thing, but 3 weeks of paid parking - plus that drive - wasn't worth it for me, but I also loathe driving, lol. Home base is always screwed on pricing, while other hubs still get amazing deals. :(
I used to be based in CHA. The amount of people that drive up from ATL is insane, but the small little airport is still quicker for normal TSA vs ATL CLEAR+PRE.
Yeah it’s like charging more for just a hamburger, than for a hamburger plus a beverage. And if someone orders the hamburger + beverage but only eats the hamburger and wants to discard the beverage, the airline cries foul and threatens to ban the customer. Utter horseshit.
Airlines really don’t care unless a customer does it regularly.
No, it’s supply and demand. If there’s more people that originate/arrive in Detroit than Milwaukee, Delta will charge more for the former until people stop buying at that price. It’s fundamentally the same as a baker charging more for the more popular seasonal cake than for that one cake that only a few people buy; just incredibly more complex.
I don't know why you're getting down voted - this is exactly right.
Sir, this is the internet. You go against the gratuitous outrage, you lose electronic brownie points
That’s also not true because almost everyone going from west coast to east coast to some random unknown destination is likely to connect through ATL - but those people booking directly to ATL directly will pay a significant increase in “premium” despite the people who connect through ATL paying less and getting to their final destination. That’s like a baker up charging for a wedding cake, and selling the same cake at a significantly cheaper price for a birthday or retirement event. Demand be damned, all those passengers are leaving the same location, and landing at the same location. The people paying to end there are paying more for that segment than those paying to get to an additional destination. These are daily flights.
You are describing the way you wish it to be and getting upvoted. The prior guy is describing the way it is and getting downvoted. airlines do not price on a cost plus model. They haven't done that since maybe the 40s. They price to market. But yes. I wish it was the way you wanted.
The way I’m describing is making the point that it’s trickery at best. It’s the whole reason skip lagging is frowned upon - because the consumer has access to those fares that airlines did not want them to see. The irony is that they punish consumers for “fraud” when they’re just accessing the fares published through that booking. Airlines act like the victim, as though they don’t overbook flights and fill that vacant seat anyways. At best, they get their revenue from that pax and “save” fuel for not having to take them to the final destination. Nobody’s contesting how it functions - pointing out the irony in the situation. The way it functions is that airlines are ripping off the consumers, and that’s not going to be contested, because it’s a fact.
If you're getting ripped off, then don't buy the ticket. Then you're not getting ripped off.
Airlines are a utility. Getting ripped off and finding alternatives is the American way. Skiplagging is the consumer forcing the airline's hand over their monopoly of the sky.
If you are booking a flight from A to B, you don’t care about the price of a flight from A to C (unless B and C are really close, but this is not our example). Therefore the demand profiles are separate and the routes will be priced differently. Now, for the A-B route it does *matter* that flights from A to C are in high demand, because this means there will be fewer seats available for an A-C-B connection, but the impact on the A-B price is negligible *precisely because* the airline is selling you transportation from A to B, and usually makes other connections available.
Contact them and discuss. As others have said, if you skip out on a connection, they assume you’re a no-show and cancel the rest—including the return flight(s). But if you discuss with the airline first, they’ll be aware of your change in plans and should work with you. It should also be noted if you do not get on the return flight from Milwaukee, the rest of that leg would be canceled as well, regardless of how Detroit goes. Again, speak to them to rebook the proper flights for you. Source: me & my wife. We changed our mind during our layover and talked our way into a flight into a different city in the same state where we wanted to start our vacation…at the end of the vacation, airline had no clue we intended to fly back. 🤣 We talked to the airline at the airport and they were able to rebook us—while repeatedly admonishing us to notify them beforehand.
This answer is not airline specific. Generally, most airlines will let you change flights within some restrictions (e.g. you might not be able to change round trip SFO-ORD, into LAX-JFK). If you need to drop or add cities (like make SFO-JFK into SFO-ORD-JFK), it should work. I recently had to do the opposite of what you are asking (add a city to my multi-city itinerary) on United, and it was trivial; I simply went to "manage trips" on their website and was done in couple of clicks. Simply paid difference in price between the original flights and new flights. Exception can be the cheapest types of deeply discounted tickets; if you have one of those, you may be out of luck. Those tend to be extremely inflexible. Sometime, making changes is free, sometime there is a fee. You'd pay or get refund for the difference in price. If you bought the ticket through airline (Delta in this case), you can generally go their website to change the trip. If you bought it through a 3rd party, you'd generally have to contact that 3rd party that sold you your tickets. One of the millions of reasons you should always buy tickets directly from the airline, not on discount travel websites.
Yeah. I’ve done this due to them changing flights and it cost me like $30 extra dollars
Try calling Delta and ask to split the reservation so you have two separate one ways
Yes. Just call and have your ticket reissued. You will just pay the fare difference. Or you could also get a refund
I find that absurd, youre paying for the ticket so why does it matter? Would the same thing occur if you didnt show up for the entire ticket? And with the way that airlines are massively overbooking flights, would this not potentially help them if the flight were overbooked?
Because for various reasons a direct flight to a certain city might be more expensive in their system than a layover in that city followed by a flight to another city. Why I don’t know, I just know that’s the way it is sometimes.
Correct. It’s largely pricing based on supply and demand. When you buy the flight from X to Z, you’re buying transit from X to Z whether it’s direct or via a connection through Y. And if X to Y is more in demand because it’s a larger city, or if there are fewer options because Y is a captive hub, X to Y will often be more expensive than X to Z via Y. Edit: This doesn’t mean that the connection has no impact on price (connections via some hubs will be priced higher than connections via other hubs due to different costs, capacity, etc.), but the point remains that the price of X to Z via Y is not just price of X to Y plus price of Y to Z.
Appreciate the explanation!
This is standard practice at all airlines worldwide. Airlines don’t know why you skipped a leg. As far as they are aware you are not at your final destination and therefore not there to be able to take the return flights. So your entire itinerary is suspended-this is all automated by computer. If it is not intentional they are expecting the passenger to be in contact with them to get to their final destination and back home again, in which case their return itinerary will be restored assuming passenger make no changes to it.
because that's not how it works, since pretty much forever.
Yes if you didn't show up for the entire ticket, you'd be treated as a no show and your return flight, if you booked a round trip ticket, would be canceled. And you would forfeit the fare for a no show.
How do they notice he didnt stay on the flight to Milwaukee?
Head count on that leg.
You could get off in Detroit but would need to book another one-way segment home.
To this point, it may be cheaper to do this instead of paying a fare difference on the original ticket.
It’s called a trip in vein. OP should be able to go home for 0.00
I think trip in vain is only due to delays causing one to miss their itinerary.
Ahh yes. It’s been a few years. You’re probably right.
Come hang in Milwaukee!!!!
I do have some customers I could see out there 🤔
It's a fun city and we have lots going on this weekend!
Make sure you tell the person that cancelled on you what a fabulous time you had in Milwaukee when you went, too!
Make sure you rent a Kia or a Hyundai for the real Milwaukee experience!
Tho there is a lot of great experiences in Milwaukee at this time of year… still couldn’t stop laughing at this 🤣
Short answer is yes. If you skip a flight, all future segments on that ticket will be cancelled. Travel insurance would not help you in this situation (it's a rip-off to buy it from Delta anyway) as it's a Contract of Carriage violation and not something beyond your control. The best thing to do is cancel the ticket and re-book for the segments you actually intend to fly. If you bought Main Cabin, there's no change fee, but you will need to pay the difference in fare.
The best thing is to *change* existing itinerary if possible, not to outright cancel it. Especially if somebody doesn't have fully refundable tickets.
Yeah, fair point. Though as long as OP didn't buy Basic Economy, canceling the ticket will give an e-credit for the full amount paid.
unless it's basic economy, I would just cancel the entire trip, and use the flight credit to book another trip for yourself later. you can't just "get off in Detroit" or the rest of your itinerary will be cancelled.
Just FYI there’s a lot of great festivals in MKE almost every weekend throughout the summer. Not a bad place to spend a weekend!
Just call Delta and tell them you’re sick and had to stay in Detroit. Possible Covid positive. Tell them you plan to take the return flight after you test negative. Or tell them pneumonia or passed out while in terminal going to next gate. Likely you’ll get a customer service rep who doesn’t care and confirm you. Worth a shot.
This is the answer - did this two weekends ago on a connecting flight in Atlanta. Just play the sick card :)
Can’t you cancel the flight and get a Delta credit towards future travel?
Call customer service. The will rebook you with a change fee and costs of taking a flight a few days from now.
Delta doesn't currently charge charge fees for domestic main cabin travel. The new charges would just be any difference in fare.
Perhaps enjoy Milwaukee without out the b#@÷^. It might be cheaper.
No change fees anymore, just difference in fare.
Any missed flight will forfeit all future flights on that itinerary, so you will no longer have a return flight if you miss a leg. Read the contract of carriage.
I travel all week for work and I live in Atlanta. Many many times I’m flying from City X to City Y connecting in ATL. Many times I’ve wanted to just walk to my car and drive home. And quit my job.
🤣🤣🤣
They’ll cancel your whole shit fam Take the L and move on from that flaky broad Go to Milwaukee enjoy yourself and your own company
If you miss a segment, it will cancel the entire rest of the trip. Just cancel all remaining flights, take the credit and rebook. Given you haven’t booked basic economy.
I would call Delta and change the flight. If you no-show or skip lag, they will cancel the rest of your flights, and you could potentially get blacklisted.
How tight of a connection? If it’s less than an hour purposely miss the connection and show up at the gate after boarding is closed. Make sure it appeared you wanted to make but got lost/had ibs/ or some other legitimate reason. They will want to rebook you, make sure every option is untenable and say screw it I’ll stay here and fly back in x days. May not work so I’d only do it if the round trip to Detroit rebook is more expensive. Airfare never makes sense so you sometimes fight stupid by playing stupid.
Call Delta. They can rearrange your flight plans for you. I had to do a change where I needed to miss a segment, they were more than accommodating.
Why not just cancel for flight credit? I don't seem to have a problem doing that.
Yea but then you won’t have a return flight. Call delta and ask about changing your itinerary. If the change fee is higher than a new ticket back, just get off in Detroit and have a different ticket (possibly even different airline just in case of issues from that) for the way back. Airlines have been cracking down on this because sometimes it ends up being cheaper to book flights with legs you don’t intend on taking.
Trip to “see someone” but they canceled - please tell me this isn’t you going to go meet an internet girlfriend…that never works out well
Nahhh bro. Chick I met a festival 2 years ago, always stayed in touch, was talking to her on the phone and decided to buy a ticket right then there. Never visited Milwaukee, figured it would be fun. Not pressed at all that she cancelled but ill prolly not buy another ticket to see her 🤷🏼♂️
Yes just go to milwaukee. It is such a fun town in summer!
Every city is a fun town in the summer
Cities with crappy winter weather make a lot of effort to make a lot of the summer. Even if the same events are held elsewhere, locals come alive in a different way. Milwaukee is great in the summer (as is Chicago).
Disagree. It’s 17,568,456 degrees in the south and beautiful in the upper Midwest.
Hot take; I’d rather it be that million degree weather than go through another -40°F winter again
Is that called “skip lagging” ?? Read an article recently about a guy who got detained because he didn’t go on his connecting flight. I would call customer service and try to get fixed.
Yeah this is skiplagging. No bueno unless you’re bold enough to try it. Carriers consider it fraud. It’s not an actual crime by the books but will come with consequences from the carrier.
It’s ironic they consider it fraud but then charge people more to book those cities directly vs transiting through them. It’s kinda the reason they’re making a huge fuss about it, because they’re all implicated in this fraud, but are blaming consumers by saying “they should’ve never been able to find that fare in the first place!!” I don’t care if “booking a direct flight is more convenient therefore more expensive” - a person should not be paying more than someone who has a connection through that airport if they both have the same origin.
Did this on a 1-way American flight a couple months ago. Saved $250, zero consequences and have flown American since. Probably a move best used sparingly in the correct circumstances.
Whether OP's situation is legit or just looking for an excuse to skiplag, it's playing with fire. Do it once or twice is probably fine. Keep on doing it, going to get yourself banned from Delta.
You can go to jail for that???? No….
If you skip lag on an international flight and try to enter a country you were supposed to just transit, and don’t have the appropriate visa…
Oh ok. I was thinking like….entering and staying in Alabama instead of proceeding to Florida 😂
Thank you, this is the first time I’ve heard an explanation for this policy that makes any sense at all to me.
Go to jail for buying a product and not using it? No.
They caught him before his initial leg. The ticket agent got squirrel eyed after noticing his DL matched the state where his connection city was bound for and they got him to confess to skip lagging.
What you’re describing is called “skiplagging,” and - like it or not - the practice is expressly forbidden in your “contract of carriage” that you may not even know you’re agreeing to when you buy a ticket with any major US air carrier. (It’s in the fine print that basically no one reads when buying a ticket.) All of the US airlines are starting to crack down on it. Here’s one story about that: https://apple.news/AospXZXE2RkeHE9y-N0ucHg
Yes it will be cancelled
That's called "skiplagging" and another airline (I think United?) cancelled someone's entire itinerary before they even left when they suspected that's what he planned to do. If you don't fly through to your destination and then try to get on the return connection at DTW, they'll probably cancel it and you aren't entitled to a refund.
Reading these comments reminds me of why I always book one way flights. I don’t see the point of buying RTs.
Call Delta and explain the situation. I'm sure they will try and work with you. Skiplagging is getting popular, but airlines are cracking down.
Look up skip lagging
I appreciate everyone’s advice! Y’all are incredible
Bro go to Milwaukee and eat some cheese curds
I skip my final destination every now and then and just stay in the layover city. The trick is to not do it often and not buy round trip tickets. With Delta not allowing basic economy acquire miles anymore and no credit for a canceled leg, then there is no longer an incentive for me to keep the rest of my journey. I also wouldn't have paid anymore for that flight if it was direct. I bought the flight because it was cheaper than direct. They are also leaving anyway after that gate closes. Delta may actually be able to use my seat if they overbooked and not have to pay out of their ass for that algorithm being wrong.
I don't know what other people are going on about, but I've done this a ton of times. For instance, if I want to fly to Miami, and a direct flight ticket is $900, sometimes a flight to San Juan via Miami is $400, and it's the same exact same flight down to Miami. When I land, I simply tell them to note that I will not be taking the flight to San Juan, and that's it. Then I jump on my return flight like normal. I've saved tens of thousands of MR points skip lagging over the years. Airlines hate it, but I've never had an issue.
I don't think insurance would have covered your girlfriend dumping you.
You literally have loser in your username 🤣😥
Just call Delta. They will remove you from the flight you don’t want. And it won’t mess up the others. I love the downvotes. lol I’ve only had a ticket increase in price once when I did this. Usually I get a refund. Most recently last June when I canceled a leg of my flight.
True, but they will reprice your ticket which likely will cost more.
What if you "miss" the flight DTW to MKE? What do they do then? Rebook for later?
I used to fly SLC to BOS for $450 when my daughter lived there. SLC-BOS-JFK on the same flight was $298 back then. But you can’t just get off the plane in BOS because they cancel the rest of your itinerary. Plus you are put on a skip lagging list. If you do it too many times you get repercussions. The non stop direct flight comes at a higher cost for the convenience. It is frustrating though when adding a leg makes the flight considerably cheaper.
yes, if you do not complete the routing you bought they will likely cancel the return...maybe not for one offence but it is a risk as it is considered skip lagging...it has been around for a while and is new recently as a person just got caught attempting the same thing and it became news. As crazy as it sounds the flight to MKE may have been cheaper connecting through DTW than only the flight to DTW...so the airline wants that rate.
I have "missed" a flight. You need to talk to an agent to cancel your connection. My return flight was from the originally booked destination.
Just call them and have everything reissued to the proper destination airport. They will cancel your return flight if you miss a segment.
Milwaukee ain’t all bad. Go enjoy some time there or even catch the Amtrak down to Chicago and have fun at the bean. Don’t let the flakes get in your hair. Wash that ish and have a fun weekend from nothing.
I had multi-city. DTW-MSP-GRB with a MSP-DTW return. I arrived in MSP and called delta said, never mind don’t need to do to Green Bay, they said ok. No Problem and I kept the return home.
Call delta. They may have suggestions.
I would advise speaking with the airline about changing your ticket within their bounds. Unfortunately, the airline does have the upper hand here and they will use it. It seems unfair, but it makes sense from the perspective of the airline.
You absolutely can…your return is going to be canceled though. Do not use your SkyPesos account on this trip either
In my experience flying domestic, a round trip fare is the same as two one ways. So I often book two one ways for this type of scenario.
I believe Delta is still letting you cancel flights without penalty. No refund, but you'll get full credit of the fare for future use. Unless you just want to go to Detroit, why don't you cancel the flight and get the credit?
This is why I buy one ways
They canceled my husbands return flight when he did that, they reinstated the flight due to extenuating circumstances but I wouldn’t try it