Air Canada: Auckland to New York from $1443 Return (Dec-Mar Dates, Including Christmas & NYE) via Vancouver @ Beat That Flight

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  saraht on 04/09/2024 - 09:19

  This might be a silly question, but can you get off at Vancouver if you don’t want to go NY?

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    justaddwater on 04/09/2024 - 09:49

    how do you get fly back to nz?

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    LookingForTheDeals on 04/09/2024 - 09:53

    Its called skiplagging, you can do it but you run the risk of the airline cancelling your other flights and blacklisting you.

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    Associatedbeatthatflight @ Beat That Flight on 04/09/2024 - 10:49

    +1

    you can, but if you miss any leg of a ticket (eg the leg to NYC) the airline usually cancels the remaining legs, INCLUDING the flight back to NZ…

    so it's sometimes worth it (a friend found a return ticket from Bolivia to Auckland was cheaper than a one way, so just dropped the final leg as he wanted to get back to NZ urgently) but, yeah, it's a risk.

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    techno246 on 08/09/2024 - 23:47

    +1

    One trick you can do without the risks of skip lagging is just spend most of your time in Vancouver and make NY a weekend trip. They don't care how long you spend in your transit destination - still the same return fare (date dependent but it's cheaper than direct).

    We did this when flights to London via NY were cheaper than NY but we wanted to go NY. So we just made London a side trip but spend many weeks in US (in fact added Seattle to the mix too).

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      justaddwater on 09/09/2024 - 09:05

      They don't care how long you spend in your transit destination

      how do you book the transit ticket for many days?

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        techno246 on 10/09/2024 - 01:16

        You can usually use the multi city function and construct the flights with the transit destination in the middle. I like to build the itinerary on flights.google.com as it's fast before going to a travel agent or airline website to purchase.

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          saraht on 16/09/2024 - 10:16

          @techno246: How would that work if the destination of the flight is NY but wanting to stay in Vancouver. Are you saying to just land in NY, fly to Vancouver and spend most of the time there, then fly back to NY to get the flight home? So essentially need to get an additional return ticket from NY to Vancouver?