Hi, here's one for all you savvy flyers. I am going on a cruise that begins in London and ends in Copenhagen. I will be flying from LAX and returning to LAX. What is the most economical way to purchase a ticket? Buy a roundtrip LAX to Copenhagen via London (British Airways) and forfeit the London to Copenhagen part on the initial leg? Is this even allowed on a restricted ticket? Or buy a roundtrip LAX to London and purchase a separate Copenhagen to London for the return part? Help! Much thanks.

Marie, <BR> <BR>Go to expedia.com or travelcoity.com - - or probably any of numerous other sites. <BR> <BR>Choose "multiple destinations". <BR> <BR>Enter: <BR> <BR>From: LAX <BR>To: LON <BR> <BR>From: CPH <BR>To: LAX <BR> <BR>This will give you a starting point of fares for the "open jaw" you seek. Now you can investigate other ways to do what you want to do. <BR> <BR>And do NOT try what you referred to as "forfeiting the London to Copenhagen part on the initial leg". You run a VERY high risk of finding that your reservation or ticket will have been partially or TOTALLY CANCELED for your return travel. <BR> <BR> <BR>

No I don't think it's allowable to just get on the plane for the second leg of the flight, skipping the first entirely. To the airline that's a whole different flight, and market, and thus different pricing would be necessary. I'm not an expert, but asked the question to an airline once before when I encountered a similar situation. I doubt buying a roundtrip, then purchasing a one-way ticket from London to Copenhagen would be cheaper than just trying to book an open-jaws flight for the entire trip. You'd just have to price it out yourself, but I think open-jaws would likely be best unless you find some spectacular deal on the roundtrip and yet another deal from London to Copenhagen.

Marie, <BR> <BR>I just realized that my response was a bit inaccaruate to your question of actually skipping the SECOND leg of the flight over, not the second leg of the flight when I said "No I don't think it's allowable to just get on the plane for the second leg of the flight, skipping the first entirely." Regardless my response remains. (Neither one is allowable.) This is a very risky way to travel at best. I whole heartedly agree with Rex. Don't mess with that idea!

Marie, <BR> <BR>Open jaw trips are perfectly acceptable with airlines for your type of international travel. It is usually priced at the sum of half the cost of each return ticket to the two cities your are traveling in to and returning from. Most airline'w web sites accomodate booking this type of flight. They usually present yoou first with the simple one stop return since this is the most convenient for the vast majority of flyers. The complex or multi-destination optios are there. Try pricing two round trips to your destinations and then try pricing your open-jaw. You may be pleasantly surprised. The previous advice here is otherwise good, especially about finding your flight cancelled for dropping a segment - this was a game travel agents would use called 'hidden city' to reduce costs. Airlines now discourage this practice by cancelling follow on portions of your itinerary.

Marie - I work for an airline as a sales agent part-time. What your are looking to do ( buy a ticket and skip the LON-CPH flight CANNOT be done.) the reason for this is because like someone mentioned earlier, it is a diffrent flight and diffrent market. If you don't fly on that ticket from LON-CPH then everything else linked to that ticker (i.e. your return flight home) will cancel. I WOULD not advice doing that!!! Really and truthfully the only way you could really do what you want to do is buy an open-jaw ticket. If there was a way you could cheat them, belive me I'd tell ya! Have fun on your cruise!