A flight procedure question

I wish to go to Berlin in August to see some of the World Athletics Championships. Is there a problem if I purchase a roundtrip flight (good deals now) from US to Berlin with several connections along the way but do not go all the way through to Berlin? I would only have a carry-on bag. I will eventually end up in Berlin and fly out of Berlin but one of the connection stops is near where I want to do some pre-sightseeing. My original plan was to fly to Berlin then train out to where I wanted to pre-sightsee.

I would greatly appreciate any and all feedback

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Make that place a stopover on your trip to Berlin. If you do not take one of your earlier flights, it invalidates the rest of the airline ticket. Another alternative is to have an open jaw ticket, arriving at one airport and departing from another, the cost should be the average of the roundtrip ticket to both.

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Marco: Thanks for responding!!

Does that mean that the return to USA ticket would be invalidated? Should I fess up to the airline when I arrive at the stopover from which I want to exit the flight sequence to Berlin?

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Yes I think it would. Normally return/round trip ticket is cheaper, sometimes cheaper than a one-way/single even, so if you don%26#39;t fly out your return is annulled as they think you are trying to beat the system and pay less.

The only exception is with the budget carriers where you have an option of booking a single or a return flight, with each journey having a separate price. If you don%26#39;t fly out with them it doesn%26#39;t invalidate the return. That applies to airlines such as easyjet and Airberlin.

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When I recently booked tickets for our upcoming trip, I was able to actually save money by flying into Berlin and out of Munich on AA. I first tried different flight combinations with different cities and found that worked the best for us...just use the multiple destination feature on the website.

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%26quot;Does that mean that the return to USA ticket would be invalidated?%26quot;

Yes.

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Have a look to see what you can do on the Lufthansa website. Almost all of Lufthansa%26#39;s intercontinental flights go via Frankfurt or Munich which are their 2 hubs. If one of the places you want to visit on the way is near one of these airports try booking a return airfare from your departure city to Munich or Frankfurt and then just a one way fare from Berlin back to which ever of these 2 airports you chose to go to to start. This way you will take advantage of the cheaper return price for the part of it and only have to pay the more expemsive one way option for the flight from Berlin to one of these 2.

You will probably find even if you book from your departure city to Berlin return it will be via one og these 2 hubs anyway.