Not flying one leg after check in

[CharlotteStreetW1]

Before I go down an Easyjet customer services rabbit hole, I wonder if anyone can advise.

DH and I have a trip booked later in the year. Not a package. Will have checked in 30 days before.

He won't know until a couple of weeks prior to the trip but DH may have an event the night before meaning he may have to travel separately and meet me at the destination. His problem (and cost 😁).

However, does anyone know how much of a hassle it would be if he didn't fly on the outward leg? Would he lose his homeward flight? And would it be different if he hadn't already checked in on the outward leg?

TIA

Ignore me. Have googled and have my answer. Bollocks.

I was just wandering then how you could leave one leg behind. 😂

Yes I think if you don't fly outward you lose return.

Yes, I have had this happen to me. Had booked a three-stage trip (A>B, B>C-->A).

I ended up not taking the B to C flight, and the airline subsequently cancelled my flight home and I had no choice but to book a new flight. It was an expensive lesson I learned that day!

A general query tacked on to this.

Say you've checked in online for the outward journey and don't make it to the airport in time e.g. stuck on the motorway on the way due to an accident, so you don't board the flight.

OK, you'll have to find another flight out, but what happens about your return flight? Would that be automatically cancelled as well, so you'd have to find a flight home too?

If you reschedule your first flight with the same airline so your booking updates to the new flight outwards then your home flight should be ok. Can be costly to do this though.

The answer on point-to-point airlines like Easyjet, Ryanair and WizzAir is to book the two legs, outbound and inbound, separately as two one-way journeys rather than as one return journey. That way there is no link between the two legs and if you don't make the outward leg (accident, missed flight, DH work event etc.) and have to get a later or different flight out, the homeward ticket is still valid.

You can not use an airline ticket out of sequence, in your case only use return.
It's a basic worldwide airline ticketing rule to do
with revenue protection.
All airlines adhere to it.