What happens if I have checked-in bags and decide not to board my connecting flight on return?

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Skipping a flight you're checked in for with bags is generally not a great idea. Since your bags can't fly without you (because Terrorism(tm)), they have to unload your bags, which will almost certainly delay the flight and piss off the baggage handlers. In other words, doing this would usually be a bit of a dick move on your part.

However, in this particular case (as Doc notes), you're flying internationally from Korea to DTW, which means your bags will be unloaded so you can collect them and take them through Customs. So:

  1. Nothing happens, you can simply leave during your layover.

  2. The airline will mark you as a no-show for that flight. Nobody cares if you do this occasionally, but the airline will eventually twig on if you do this (say) every week and might send you a nasty letter, confiscate your frequent flyer miles and/or ban you from flying with them again.

  3. and 4. See above: you're required to collect your bags at DTW anyway, so all you need to do is not check them back in afterwards.

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If you check bags, your bags will go to the final city in your ticket, you will not. So this only works with carry ons (except for international flights arriving in the U.S. and a few other countries, because you have to pick up your bags on arrival in the U.S. and walk them through customs, then drop them back off. If you’re checked to a domestic destination other than the one you arrive at in the U.S., you can just not drop your bags back off. So if your final destination is your arrival city, you can terminate there.

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