Can I Take just One Leg Of Return Flight?

HBC08 · 05-02-2025 10:52PM #1

I'm flying to Faro in May,have booked a return flight for €350 with Ryanair.

Looks like I won't be able to make the flight out but will be in Portugal and can make the flight home.

So the question is if I'm a no show for the flight out can I still come back on the original fare/dare?

LambshankRedemption · 05-02-2025 11:23PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058393950/can-i-take-just-one-leg-of-return-flight

Yes, just make sure you check in for your flight when prompted by the app. (The return flight)

HBC08 · 05-02-2025 11:25PM

Thanks,

I was thinking that but I haven't actually done it before so would be a bit nervous!

...Ghost... · 05-02-2025 11:31PM

Probably not, as you won’t be registered at the boarding gate. You should check with the airline to be sure. A few years ago, I was travelling Spain to Ireland. I checked my baggage to go home with family but last minute, I needed to stay a few more days. When I wasn't registered at theboarding gate, there was a problem and they about to delay the flight and have my luggage removed before my aunt explained the situation.

LambshankRedemption · 06-02-2025 12:19AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123139014#Comment_123139014

Once you check in online between 2 and 24 hours before your flight, you will be registered at the boarding gate and have a boarding pass.

fael · 06-02-2025 12:54AM

Check with Ryanair and get it in writing. Some airlines (KLM for example) cancel the return flight if you don't show up for the flight out.

If you want to know for sure, get it in writing.

Nigel Fairservice · 06-02-2025 01:41AM

You should be fine. Ryanair are point to point. I'd check in for the outbound leg. I got EU261 compensation one time for a Ryanair flight that I was booked on to but didn't fly on. My wife was on the flight. Flight was delayed and she stuck in a claim for the 2 of us. They paid out even though I wasn't even on the flight.

...Ghost... · 06-02-2025 04:59PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123139127#Comment_123139127

And if you fail to board, the connecting flight might be invalid. Boarding passes are scanned at the gate.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123139268#Comment_123139268

Little bit of fraud there.

L1011 · 06-02-2025 05:05PM

Ryanair treat each leg as point to point, its own ticket. You can dump an outbound leg and use the return.

Most other airlines will cancel the return but Ryanair don't.

HBC08 · 06-02-2025 05:19PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123141364#Comment_123141364

Wow,

That's great info,I'm really hoping this is the case.

Nigel Fairservice · 06-02-2025 05:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123141341#Comment_123141341

Call it what you want but I wasn't feeling too bad over it when I took my dealings with them over the years into consideration. Ryanair have discommoded me in the past causing me additional expense which they would not reimburse. A few years ago they also took money from an elderly relative of mine who bought me a Ryanair voucher. My relative didn't realise my passport name is different to the name I use everyday. Ryanair refused to change the name on the voucher meaning I could not use it and they would not refund it either. They got money for nothing in that instance.

LambshankRedemption · 06-02-2025 06:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123139201#Comment_123139201

He's not asking about KLM he is asking about Ryanair. Love them or hate them, hell will freeze over while you are waiting to get it in writing from Ryanair.

I can tell him as i have done it recently, if he misses his outbound his return is not cancelled.

I had a look on the site, but can't find it in the FAQs, but a google search shows hits from various forums all saying the same thing.

spurious · 06-02-2025 06:33PM

You should be able to 'manage' the outbound flight to another date in the future, which maybe you might use, depending on where you are going.

triggermortis · 06-02-2025 07:03PM

You'll be grand. We missed a Ryanair flight out to Spain in the summer due to being stuck in security in Dublin. It worked out cheaper for us to go home and drive to Belfast and get a flight out from there (not with Ryanair), and then fly home using the original Ryanair booking.

...Ghost... · 06-02-2025 09:49PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123141467#Comment_123141467

No need to justify the fraud to me.

I'd have done the same 😂

JVince · 06-02-2025 09:56PM

I wish people who did not know the correct answer would not post sh1te that they make up.

Ryanair is a point to point airline. They treat every flight as an individual flight. You did not book a "return" flight with them, you booked a flight to faro and another flight from faro. That you were able to book them together is simply to make it easy for you.

I have needed to change things several times and booked a new one way ticket and used the original flight back with no issues whatsoever with Ryanair.

It's been that way for years as I've done it probably 8-10 times over the years.

Never gave it a second thought.

...Ghost... · 07-02-2025 04:07PM

And I wish people kept to their experience rather than assume others haven’t and make baseless claims. I didn't see anything questionable from anyone, though I wouldn't expect Ryanair to clarify the OP question in writing. I saw a few posts with personal experience, common sense advice, an then some with the correct answer for the OP.

First rule of boards....what was it?

endofrainbow · 07-02-2025 07:34PM

Many Legacy airlines' terms and conditions are you take the flights in the sequence booked. Since Ryanair are a point to point airline, this does not apply.

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