Originally Posted by
Tumbleweed
Here's a strange one. I'm pricing tickets to HND and the nonstop from SEA is quite a bit more than a flight from PDX with a connection to SEA onto the same nonstop flight. My question is; if you skip the connection and show up in SEA for the flight to HND, would your reservation be forfeited?
Yes, your whole ticket would be cancelled. You'd show up in SEA and have no ticket to fly with.
The pricing you're describing is very typical for flight with a connection, and what you're thinking of doing comes up a lot. Airlines figured it out a long time ago...