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If you are only going one way, then it might work. If it is a round trip, they will cancel the rest of your ticket, so you won't have a return flight home.
If you are not going to complete the flight, please tell someone in authority, so they don't go into anti-terrorist mode, searching the plane and delaying passengers because one of the passengers disappeared and maybe deplaned because they were setting off a bomb.
Perhaps tell the stewardess or the ticket agent that you are leaving the flight because you feel sick or have an ear infection. Don't just disappear.
If you do tell someone, you get charged... That's sort of the point of this. You end up paying fees if you say you cannot make the flight. Also if you say you are sick, they end up putting you on another flight so you get a fee for that...
If you are not going to complete the flight, please tell someone in authority, so they don't go into anti-terrorist mode, searching the plane and delaying passengers because one of the passengers disappeared and maybe deplaned because they were setting off a bomb.
Perhaps tell the stewardess or the ticket agent that you are leaving the flight because you feel sick or have an ear infection. Don't just disappear.
DON"T Tell ANYONE...
By the time they notice you are missing from the connecting flight 2 hours later the OGG-LAX plane will all ready be turned around and off to somewhere else.
The OGG-LAX Flight will be turned in 45-60min MAX and off to its next City.
NOTE The Round Trip Warning, and NO checked bags. Also Warning: If the Overheads are full they will Gate Check (Free) your carryon and Tag it for SAN (most of the time).
By the time they notice you are missing from the connecting flight 2 hours later the OGG-LAX plane will all ready be turned around and off to somewhere else.
The OGG-LAX Flight will be turned in 45-60min MAX and off to its next City.
NOTE The Round Trip Warning, and NO checked bags. Also Warning: If the Overheads are full they will Gate Check (Free) your carryon and Tag it for SAN (most of the time).
Oh yeah. I've learned the following already (I need to keep track in case I forget lol)
-Never do this roundtrip
-Do not include your FF number
-Do not check anything in (and you need to hope that they end up checking your carry on bag!!)
-Do not tell any airline employee
Also (and I don't know why people seem to leave this out)- the airlines may end up changing where you were planning to get off since they think that was just going to be a lay over for you anyway! For instance when I flew to DC, my flight was supposed to be LAX with a stop over in SLC and then to DCA. They ended up making it LAX to DFW and not SLC. It's definitely a risk.
If they canceled a 737-800 flight that tends to be full they will be routing people all over to get ~150 out of there. They will send passenger all over the place to get them "Home"
Send you to HNL to connect on UA or partner flight to SFO SJC SEA PDX Maybe over to AA DL etc then to SAN.
Oh yeah. I've learned the following already (I need to keep track in case I forget lol)
-Never do this roundtrip
-Do not include your FF number
-Do not check anything in (and you need to hope that they end up checking your carry on bag!!)
-Do not tell any airline employee
Also (and I don't know why people seem to leave this out)- the airlines may end up changing where you were planning to get off since they think that was just going to be a lay over for you anyway! For instance when I flew to DC, my flight was supposed to be LAX with a stop over in SLC and then to DCA. They ended up making it LAX to DFW and not SLC. It's definitely a risk.
This. I had a very similar situation years ago in which I planned to be routed through MIA but then got switched to another flight that would have routed me through DFW. They let me cancel and switch after I made up some nutty story. It worked at the time, but today you better do your Hail Mary's. As I've aged, I've learned that some stuff is not worth the agita for a couple of bucks.
I have two experiences with this. My wife was flying to meet me in Chicago but she purchased a much cheaper flight to MKE with a layover at ORD. So it wasn't the most risky thing, worst case scenario she would lose several hours if it turns out she has to fly to MKE and take Amtrak down. But everything went smoothly.
The other experience was my own Southwest flight via BWI that I think was going on to Boston. But I wanted to get out at BWI. This was in 2012. From my research, supposedly Southwest at the time was the only airline that was ok with these hidden city itineraries. They weren't openly condoning it, but airline employees all understood that it wasn't against company policy. Anyway, when I landed at BWI I informed WN employees there that I would not be completing my itinerary and they didnt seem to care or make any note of it at all. And I used points for the flight so they certainly knew who I was.
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