Hidden City Ticketing via Mexico City
I want to go from Santiago, Chile to Denver. I can save LOTS of money by buying a LATAM ticket Santiago-MEX-Guadalajara and throw away the MEX-Guadalajara portion. It seems like there's little to no risk since the second leg is not LATAM and I'll have to claim my checked luggage for immigration in MEX anyway. I'm not a LATAM frequent flyer.
I'll get an American, United or Southwest ticket from MEX to DEN. Can anyone see a problem with my plan?
Best Answer
If you book a return ticket, your return trip will be cancelled as soon as you miss the MEX-GDL segment of your flight.
If there are irregular operations on the day of your trip, you may be rerouted on a different route. Your ticket is from Santiago to Guadalajara, not to Mexico City, so if LATAM couldn't route you through Mexico City for some reason, they might find some other creative routing for you. I think that's fairly unlikely since I doubt LATAM flies between any other Mexican airport and Santiago (and you could research this), but it has to be kept in mind.
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