If one person on a booking skips the return leg, is everyone else on the booking okay to proceed?

[Flyboi420]

Have a booking for 5 people Melbourne - Vegas return.

Departure leg is MEL-DFW-LAS, return leg is LAS-LAX-MEL.

One of the 5 wants to stay in Vegas a bit longer. He is happy to skip the entire return leg of the flight, and won’t seek a refund or anything. We can’t get a partial refund for him because this was all booked as a flight + hotel package and the terms won’t allow any refunds or changes at this stage.

The question is, will the rest of us on the booking be okay if 1/5 of the group doesn’t check in? And we tell them he has chosen not to fly? Or is this some problem for the rest of the party?

I know if he skips the LAS-LAX leg he can’t get on at LAX for LAX-MEL.

Aus - US flights are Qantas met, domestic US ones are American Airlines metal. Whole journey booked via American Airlines.

Just want to make sure everyone doesn’t get turned away at the gate on the return leg if we only have 4/5 of the group.

Thanks all!

 

[AIRwin]

Best to split him out of the booking?

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[torks]

Haven't done this with Qantas/AA, but on your European LCC's has never been a problem. Once got paged to the desk at the gate to ask if the additional person was coming, but no dramas.

 

[Flyboi420]

Not able to split out the PNR.

Spoke with Qantas, they said to speak to AA, AA said to speak to the travel agent, and the travel agent said they are not able to split out this one passenger (all guests must be on the full itinerary as per this particular package). So we can’t split out the 1 PNR.

 

[opusman]

I think if it's the last leg of the booking there won't be an issue. You might run into problems if it wasn't the last leg, then there could be a risk of later legs being cancelled. But if the rest of you check-in and show up at the airport it seems unlikely they'd deny you boarding just because one of your party "didn't get to the airport on time" or "is sick and couldn't travel" or whatever else explanation you give them if they even ask.

 

[Capricornus]

There should be no reason why if one person from a travel party does not check in the rest are denied boarding. Life happens. Which is why when you check in you have an option to select the pax to check in. Don’t think you should have problems.