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Request for Guidance on a Goofy Ticketing Issue
Please help me decide the best course of action to take he
I have purhcased 2 tickets on Air France from LAX to Brussels at a very favorable rate. The ticket has two segments: The non-stop flight from LAX to CDG and then a train ride to Brussels later that evening. Paris is my desired destination, but I am prepared to take the train to Brussels and spend a night, returning via train to Paris the next day. Here is the question: Do I need to take the first train ride to Brussels at all? I know about the whole connecting flight/itenerary cancellation deal on flights, but does that apply to train segments too? Ideally, I would like to skip the train trip altogether, but not at the cost of having the return flight cancelled. I am considering taking the first train trip to Brussels and returning the next day to Paris. If I skip the return Train Segment, will it cancel the later flight tickets? The worst scenario is not that bad, really: Take a train back to Paris for a week and then return to Brussels and catch the return train ride as ticketed, and the later flight back to LAX. Any advice? The ticket as laid out above is about 1/2 the price of a LAX to CDG ticket on the same day, so I am money ahead with extra train tickets no matter what. |
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Request for Guidance on a Goofy Ticketing Issue
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Geodyne wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 05:33:01 GMT, mrtravel wrote: Jeff Hacker wrote: Since the ticket is a thru ticket, the train segment is no different than an airline ticket - if you miss the train, your onward reservations will be canceled. Does the airline know if you made the train? I took the train, they stamped my ticket. How would the airline know I was on the train. Granted, this was TGV from CDG to Lyon, and on AA, but it I don't think it would be much different from Brussels to Paris, I've been following this thread with interest, and have been reluctant to weigh in until now. I caught the TGV from Paris to Brussels a couple of weeks ago on a ticket that had originally been booked as a return ticket from Brussels to Paris and back with two companions who had bought my ticket with theirs. Circumstances dictated that I had to meet my friends in Paris, so they travelled out from Brussels with their tickets as well as mine, and I returned on the return portion of the ticket with no problem, despite not having used the outbound portion. There is really no way I can see that the airline could say for certain that one particular person was or was not on that train (as seats are rarely booked by name), unless there is a requirement for the stamp to be in the airline ticket itself or the airline requests that you present the train ticket when checking in for your return flight. If you need that and you don't have it, you could have a problem, but this is highly unlikely. The question is, do you want to take the chance? This is a similar situation to UA tickets originating or ending in SJC. The SJC-SFO portion of the trip is by bus and there's no way UA knows whether you took the bus or not. |
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