Later this year I am going over to Ireland and London. I am booking flights from LAX to London that connect to Ireland a few hours later. The return flight is from Ireland back to London, then home to LAX.

I want to spend a few days and see London so I am contemplating getting off in London and not catching my connecting flight to Ireland 2 hours later that day. Then, after a few days in London, I will simply book a direct flight to Ireland and spend a few days there and at the end, I will simply catch my return flight from Ireland from my original itinerary. So I would purposely choose to miss my original connection to Ireland from London.

**It is much cheaper to do it this way rather than booking flights to London, and separate flights to Ireland and back to London a few day later. My question is, will I get in trouble for intentionally missing my connecting flight to Ireland on that first day? When I go to get on the return flight, will they have given that away? Anyone ever tried this?