Airline connections

Do you mean not take the leg from Atlanta to your home airport?

If you have baggage, it will automatically be transferred from the first flight to the second.

If you have carry-on, then you could just walk off the plane and leave.

But you'd still have to find a way home. And if you were trying to get FF mileage, you wouldn't get any for the entire return trip.

I know people who use to book roundtrip tickets, when they only wanted to go one way, because at a time RT was cheaper than OW. I did that, never had a problem.

As for your situation, others might have more experience with it.

You can do it.

I don't know the situation in the states but if you did it these days in Europe you would risk a major security alert.

If you get checked in and seat allocation to your final destination airport but get off at an in-between airport, it sets a lot of alarm bells ringing. The reasons for this go back to the Lockerbie air disaster.

Why not be honest and tell the check-in staff that you and your luggage only want to fly to the in-between airport, I know the airline I work for would not have a problem. The only thing we would say about it is that we wouldn't refund any money, but that doesn't sound like you care about that.

I called Continental, and they want hundreds of dollars to rewrite the ticket to take off the last leg.

I will have no checked luggage.

With no checked luggage you can "walk out" on your last leg with no problems.

Well we did it on friday on the way home from my father-in-law's funeral....to keep rest of family together for the weekend.