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At the end of this month I have a flight from St. Lucia to New York and then New York to Phoenix where I live. There is a 24 hour layover in New York so I figured I would stay an extra day.

In order to change my flight and cancel the existing reservation to change it was about $500. I could book with a separate airline and it will cost a fourth of that. My question is:

If I miss my flight from New York to Phoenix and take a flight with a different airline, will I be OK?

smci
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    Is it a one way ticket? An have you checked with the airline on whether you can just cancel 1 leg? – Karlson May 12 '16 at 22:07
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    Note that, if this is the first half of a round-trip flight, all subsequent flights on the same ticket will be cancelled once you miss the New York to Phoenix leg. – Zach Lipton May 13 '16 at 03:19
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    This is very close to something called "hidden-city ticketing" (except that in this case, the goal is usually to stay in New York, not to extend a stopover). Looking for that term will give you a lot of additional info, e.g. http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/4440/do-you-have-to-take-the-second-leg-of-a-domestic-flight – Relaxed May 13 '16 at 07:25
  • You will lose all further legs on the ticket, including a potential return flight. Otherwise, no problems. – Aganju May 13 '16 at 21:28
  • @Aganju: they may also confiscate some or all of your airmiles. Not sure how aggressively airlines do that these days. – smci May 13 '17 at 22:29

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Since you have a 24 hour layover, there should be no real issues with missing the flight, you would simply be listed as a no show on the next day's NY to Phoenix flight and the airline pockets the fare.