Will a no-show on one flight void the subsequent flight on a multi-city?

[JohnM]

I have made a two-sector multi-city domestic el-cheapo flight booking on Air India. The sectors are separated by three days.

Online changes are not permitted.

My unrelated incoming international flight has now been rescheduled to arrive too late to make the first sector.

If I don’t show for sector 1, will that invalidate sector 2, given that it’s on the same PNR?

 

[ftm]

It is whether it is on the same ticket, not same PNR. By the sound of things, it is one ticket. So yes, you'll have the second leg cancelled if you no show for the first. Always a danger to book connections in separate PNRs.

 

[JohnM]

It’s the same ticket number (ie. the two domestic flights) and as I suspected would be the case.

The bizarre thing that triggered this was my separate arrival flight from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Delhi on Air Astana. I received an SMS from Air Astana that says ‘Due to air traffic control arrival time of your flight at 1035 has been changed to 1220.’ But departure time is still the same and it is still showing as a direct flight. Two hours has been added!

I can see no changes to clocks in either country, which after the possibilty of a change to an indirect flight pattern, is the only thing that I could think would add two hours.

I’ll be in India for a separate period several weeks before this set of flights, so I’ll front AI re-ticketing at DEL and see if I can get a change to a later flight from DEL-BOM. There are plenty each day.

 

[henleybeach]

It’s the same ticket number (ie. the two domestic flights) and as I suspected would be the case.

The bizarre thing that triggered this was my separate arrival flight from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Delhi on Air Astana. I received an SMS from Air Astana that says ‘Due to air traffic control arrival time of your flight at 1035 has been changed to 1220.’ But departure time is still the same and it is still showing as a direct flight. Two hours has been added!

I can see no changes to clocks in either country, which after the possibilty of a change to an indirect flight pattern, is the only thing that I could think would add two hours.

I’ll be in India for a separate period several weeks before this set of flights, so I’ll front AI re-ticketing at DEL and see if I can get a change to a later flight from DEL-BOM. There are plenty each day.

I know air Astana had cancelled that flight temporarily when we were in Almaty. It was on the news in our hotel room and the papers, citing the Pakistan India air traffic space as the problem.

 

[JohnM]

Strange. ALA is due N of DEL and the flight doesn’t appear to need to go near Pakistan. Maybe there’s an issue crossing Kashmir and the flight path truly needs to deviate by two hours. I guess the Himalayas factor into it as well.

Turns a 3:35h flight into a 5:40h flight .

OK, just did a little more Googling. The Pakistanis’ airspace closure is the reason and it’s impacted a lot of flights.

With a bit of luck, the issue may get resolved before early September. I’ll just sit tight on the AI flights for the present.

 

[JohnM]

Update.

It seems like sense has prevailed and the airspace issue has been resolved.

I received an alert overnight that the ALA-DEL flight has returned to (almost) original timing. Now showing only a 20 minute longer duration.