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Looks like you are right. I've seen flyertalk threads say that you can at times call in to Customer Service and indicate that you for whatever reason need to cancel that flight and some will let you.

I think a decent workaround is say you took another flight perhaps.

For instance. My flight to Frankfurt from IAD got cancelled on Lufthansa, but I was able to get switched to a United flight. Lufthansa had no idea we made it to Frankfurt and bumped us off the connection to BCN. Of course we got back on, but I bet you could probably use this logic to work in your favor.

But I don't fly enough to ever have had to test out these theories. Only like 5/6 times a year.

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Posted by LSUAfro

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Posted on 2/11/15 at 2:11 pm to Teddy Ruxpin

I ended up booking 6 tickets. Two round trips(1 for me/1 for my wife) and two one ways from LHR to MSY. I didn't get creative with the routing as I needed these to be minimal travel time tickets due to my wife's lack of vacation time and me wanting to book expeditiously.

Both of our Tickets:
LHR-ORD-MSY
MSY-ORD-LHR
LHR-ORD-MSY

She's coming on one trip with me and not the other, so I'll have to eat the return trip home on her ticket and get a one way award ticket there for me.

I overlapped them so I could get her back to MSY since you had to originate in Europe. I didn't think all of this through very thoroughly

. I should've booked my one way as a round trip.

It came out to $57/ticket or about $70 each way factoring in the ticket I will have to eat.

All of this is still up in the air as we will have to wait to see if the tickets are honored. Pretty skeptical, but who knows.

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