Tag Archives: flight rebooking

Missed Your Flight? Will the Airline Cancel Your Return Flight?

Traveler at an airport watching a departed flight, illustrating how missing an outbound flight can affect the remaining itinerary and return flight.

If you miss the first flight on a round-trip ticket, do not assume you can simply find another way to your destination and use the return flight later. Depending on the airline, failing to show up for one flight can cause the rest of the reservation to be canceled automatically. That can include connecting flights…

Airline Changed Your Flight Schedule? When You Can Get a Refund or Better Flight

Traveler reviewing an airline schedule change at the airport, with information about refunds, rebooking, changed airports, added connections, and cabin downgrades.

You bought the flight months ago. Then an email arrives: Your flight schedule has changed. Maybe your 11 a.m. departure is now at 6:15 a.m. Maybe your nonstop has become a connection. Maybe the airline moved you from LaGuardia to JFK. Or perhaps it automatically rebooked you onto an itinerary that is technically workable but…