can you get off a plane early?

poisonated · 28-02-2010 6:37pm #1

Hi I was wondering if it is possible to get off a plane early?
What I mean is that I want to go to Vancouver but the cheapest flight I can find is actualy one to a US city.The flight stops at Vancouver and I would like to stay there.Is that possible?
I should add that it is a different airline going from Vancouver to the US city.
Thanks very much for any help

dingding · 28-02-2010 6:38pm

Your baggage would end up at the destination city. Also there could be issues with your passport, particularly if you have cleared US immigration and you will not have left the US. More details please.

poisonated · 28-02-2010 6:40pm

Thanks.
Would you not need to recheck the bag at Vancouver anyway?
I have a working visa for Canada and I have a holiday visa for US so I don't think that shoul;d really be a problem

Diddler1977 · 28-02-2010 6:46pm

AFAIK on your return journey if you do not get back on in the US airport (which would be the first leg of your return ticket) the airline will cancel your ticket.

Lifelike · 01-03-2010 12:28am

You should manage to get a good value fare to Vancouver. A number of airlines offer one-stop flights from Dublin to Vancouver, such as Delta (via Atlanta), Continental Airlines (via Newark), British Airways (via Heathrow) and Air Canada (via Toronto). Make sure to check them all out.

airvan · 01-03-2010 12:03pm

If the flight is actually going to Vancouver. Why can't you simply book the leg to Vancouver? Are you saying it's more expensive to fly to Vancouver than to fly onto the US on the same flight?

poisonated · 01-03-2010 2:25pm

Yeah...it's more expensive to fly just to Vancouver on the same flight.Will look further but the cheapest option seems to be to go to a nearby US city.
Thanks

KoolKid · 01-03-2010 3:03pm

I would imagine the ground staff would make a big thing of it.
I was on a flight from Lanzarote to Shannon recently. There was a stop in Cork first.
They delayed the flight for nearly an hour because they got the head count wrong & thought a passanger heading for Shannon was missing.

Our man in Havana · 01-03-2010 4:25pm

If the flight lands in Canada first, all baggage must be claimed and then cleared thru US customs based at the Canadian airport. This gives you the chance to collect your bags and leave via the Canadian customs and immigration.

steve-o · 01-03-2010 4:30pm

poisonated wrote: »

Yeah...it's more expensive to fly just to Vancouver on the same flight.Will look further but the cheapest option seems to be to go to a nearby US city.
Thanks

A lot of airlines do this. It's a price premium for the convenience of a non-stop flight and, strange as it seems, has nothing to do with the cost of providing the service. For the same reason, Dublin-London-Vancouver may well be cheaper than London-Vancouver.

Where are you are flying from? I'd be surprised if they charge less to fly onwards if you are already connecting from Ireland.

As Diddler1977 mentioned, the rest of your trip will be automatically cancelled if you miss a leg, precisely so that people don't deliberately try to circumvent the ticket rules.

Our man in Havana · 01-03-2010 4:36pm

It is something that is really only workable with single tickets.

I have found in the past it was cheaper when flying to Tokyo to book a flight DUB-LHR-NRT-SYD rather than DUB-LHR-NRT. Many people would do a runner in NRT. Feck all the airline could do.

There was another scam where a return flight was way cheaper than a single flight. So if you only needed a single you simply booked a fake return that you were never going to use.

can you get off a plane early?

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