Can I take the return flight if I don't use the outbound flight

rhetta76

Just a quick question about Ryanair.

If I do not use the outbound leg of the flight, can I still use the inbound leg or do Ryanair cancel your booking for not flying out with them?

Regards

Anonymousa

Why don't you just ask them?

fifeken

rhetta76 wrote: »

Just a quick question about Ryanair.

If I do not use the outbound leg of the flight, can I still use the inbound leg or do Ryanair cancel your booking for not flying out with them?

Regards

Yes, you can still use the inbound leg. Ryanair treat them as single, separate purchases even if booked as a return.

Bob_the_Saver

As fifeken says it's no problem at all, I often do it.

pattycake

Not all airlines take the same attitude. Last year my husband had a flight booked with Czech Airlines but circumstances prevented him using the outward leg of the ticket. We used another airline for just one way.

When he turned up at Prague airport for his homeward flight with CSA they told him his ticket was cancelled. We had to pay another £200 for him to come back on that flight.

Bob_the_Saver

pattycake wrote: »

Not all airlines take the same attitude. Last year my husband had a flight booked with Czech Airlines but circumstances prevented him using the outward leg of the ticket. We used another airline for just one way.

When he turned up at Prague airport for his homeward flight with CSA they told him his ticket was cancelled. We had to pay another £200 for him to come back on that flight.

Very Important point, the Question asked about Ryanair but Flight and Ferry bookings can often be Much Much cheaper to book a return. If you only use the outbound you can find the extra for the single added to the credit card you used to book with. A return flight with a well known airline to say India might be £450 ish return or £1500 is for two singles.

Check out (sorry for the pun) condition 3c2 on the page below (Click tickets first)

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/genconcarr1/public/en_gb

Heliflyguy

How are they going to prove you had no intention of using the return?
You example is not a good one as you are comparing a restricted return ticket to a non restricted oneway.

If you did not use the return you wouldnt get a refund of the fare on a non refundable ticket (of course) and you would have a one way fare deducted from a refundable ticket with the residule amount refunded.

Bob_the_Saver

Heliflyguy wrote: »

How are they going to prove you had no intention of using the return?
You example is not a good one as you are comparing a restricted return ticket to a non restricted oneway.

If you did not use the return you wouldnt get a refund of the fare on a non refundable ticket (of course) and you would have a one way fare deducted from a refundable ticket with the residule amount refunded.

Yes, but when a one way ticket is a lot more than a return?

kingston_toon

Back when Ryanair did 1p flights and Visa Electron was free, I'd often book single flights from Europe to the UK as part of a return trip FROM the UK, simply to avoid the £1.50 charge on Electron when making a foreign currency transaction (even if it was just for Euro 0.01). I'd never use the outward and it was never a problem.

alanrowell

Low costs airlines invariably treat all flights as single flights - so there's no problem not using a leg

HOWEVER with legacy airlines you normally book a set of flights and if you miss any of them then the remaining flights are automatically cancelled