Travel questions

[ubnowski]

I am flying from Austin to kolkata and back. My route is through houston. The travel agents made my tickets in a strange way. They bought one ticket from austin to houston. Then another ticket from houston to kolkata. for the return journey, kolkata to austin is one ticket. I now want to drive to houston and fly out of there and on my way back fly to houston and drive back to austin. On my return, I want to stay in houston for a couple of days. thus, i want to cancel the austin-houston part of my ticket roundtrip. However, the travel agent is telling me that I can only cancel austin to houston because it is a ticket on its own. I cannot cancel houston to austin b/c it is part of the kolkata to houston ticket. They cannot take out and cancel houston to austin.

I was wondering I could make it work in this way. I cancel the austin to houston part and fly from houston because that is possible. On my way back from kolkata, after I am done with immigration and customs at houston, will it be OK if I did not board the houston to austin leg? Will it raise red flags that I didn't board a flight and cause me hassle when I travel in the future? is there some other ways by which I can go about doing this? After immigration and customs at houston, if I told continental that I will not be taking the houston to austin leg, will that be OK?

Thank you.

 

[cafeconleche]

Well, your bags would be checked all the way to Austin, so I'm not sure how you'd get them off the plane. If you can, then you should be fine. People miss flights all the time.

 

[ubnowski]

I will get my luggage back in houston for customs. Houston is my point of entry.

 

[sanjoseaug20]

Since you are getting your bags in Houston for customs ... this works well. Take the bags, do customs and do whatever you want to do next. There are no consequences of missing a flight.