Faculty job on-campus interview: changing flights I am from Europe. I am currently on my tour around the US for several on-campus interviews for assistant professor positions. As I am from far away, I managed to arrange the domestic flights between the places without having to go back and forth between Europe and the US. After my last interview, says at university A, I am booked to fly back to Europe and the one-way ticket was already bought by A.

Now, I have just received another invitation to an on-campus interview at university B. B really likes my profile and they want to interview me as soon as I can (it's also the end of the interview season, so I guess they are in a hurry to grab someone). If I come back to Europe as planned then fly to B again, I will be so exhausted because each flight will be 16 to 20 hours, and I have already spent a lot of hours flying and interviewing so far. So ideally I would like to fly directly from A to B then back to Europe. But the ticket bought by A is non-refundable, and I was told before that it's very unprofessional to change flights like that, which could harm my chance at A. I am thinking of skipping the return flight bought by A without telling them (it's a one-way ticket). My questions are:


If I skip the flight, will A know? They bought the non-refundable ticket through a travel agent.
Do you have any suggestion for a more elegant solution?


Thank you very much!
If I skip the flight, will A know?


No.


  Do you have any suggestion for a more elegant solution?


If time permits, book a round-trip ticket out of pocket (i.e. paying for it yourself) to go from A to B and back to A, in time to make your long-haul flight.