I know that, generally, if you have a round-trip ticket, and you skip the outbound, the return leg gets cancelled.
Is this a hard-and-fast rule? Any way around it in the following situation:
I booked a round-trip basic economy ticket on AA for a friend of my son, SFO-MSY-SFO.
Now, the outbound date is one day too early.
Seems like my options are
1. Consider the ticket a total loss and buy two new tickets (SFO-MSY and MSY-SFO).
2. Ask AA if they will change the outbound leg to the next day for a change fee. (Is that even possible with basic economy?)
3. Ask AA if they will drop the outbound leg, and then we'll just buy a replacement outbound leg (on AA or otherwise).
Please advise.