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United Flight Pricing Question
I need to go to Houston in July for a wedding. Since Houston is a United hub, I figured I'd get a decent priced flight but from ORD to IAH, flights are around $400.
Since it's the wedding of a friend from my hometown (MLI code), I considered driving there (2.5 hrs) and flying out from there with some of the girls. The annoying thing is that this flight has a layover, at Ohare!, and it's priced at $268....yet the main legs from ORD to IAH and IAH to ORD are the same was what I want to book directly from Chicago; ugh, why is it that with 2 additional flights it's $132 cheaper?
I'm assuming with 9/11 rules if you miss the first portion of your flight, you're not allowed on the second? Otherwise, could I some how book the MLI-IAH flights but only take the ORD-IAH portion?
Re: United Flight Pricing Question
This happens all to often! I had a similar experience DFW to NY on American. My flight to NY was more expensive than my sister in law's, who flew from San Antonio-DFW-NY. We were on the SAME DFW-NY flight! I think it was pretty similar too in price, something like mine was $400 and hers was 200ish.
They will indeed cancel your flight if you miss your first leg, BUT what we have done sometimes is book the flight returning to the smaller town, knowing the flight has to go through Chicago. So I'd check out flights, Chicago-IAH-MIL (knowing that the return flight will have a layover in Chicago. Just don't get on that last leg.
This wont work if you check luggage! We've done it before.
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On the return flight, you can ask them to check your luggage only to one of your connecting airports. I've actually done this more than once with no problem. Just make sure you double-confirm when you check in that the bags should only go to the connecting point.
For example, earlier this year I had a roundtrip flight for a vacation booked through London, but then something came up for work, and I needed to be in Aberdeen the evening I was supposed to get back. There was no way I could make it home and then turn around and fly back to the UK, so I booked a one-way ticket from London to Aberdeen. I had my luggage checked only to London, picked it up there, and checked in for my new flight. If you're just leaving straight from the connecting airport, it's even simpler!
(If you do this, it's considerate to inform the airline that you won't be taking the onward leg, so that anyone flying stand-by can confirm earlier that there's an available seat. Don't do it before you fly, because to make the change at that point means changing the ticket and paying the change fees! Silly. But once you're mid-trip, it's a different matter.)
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