Request for Guidance on a Goofy Ticketing Issue

"John Smith" wrote in
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Please help me decide the best course of action to take he

I have purhcased 2 tickets on Air France from LAX to Brussels at a
very favorable rate. The ticket has two segments: The non-stop
flight from LAX to CDG and then a train ride to Brussels later that
evening.

Paris is my desired destination, but I am prepared to take the train
to Brussels and spend a night, returning via train to Paris the next
day.

Here is the question: Do I need to take the first train ride to
Brussels at all? I know about the whole connecting flight/itenerary
cancellation deal on flights, but does that apply to train segments
too? Ideally, I would like to skip the train trip altogether, but not
at the cost of having the return flight cancelled. I am considering
taking the first train trip to Brussels and returning the next day to
Paris. If I skip the return Train Segment, will it cancel the later
flight tickets?

The worst scenario is not that bad, really: Take a train back to
Paris for a week and then return to Brussels and catch the return
train ride as ticketed, and the later flight back to LAX.

Any advice? The ticket as laid out above is about 1/2 the price of a
LAX to CDG ticket on the same day, so I am money ahead with extra
train tickets no matter what.



The train most likely is from the CDG TGV station. there is no check in
for trains only the requirement to compose (date stamp) the ticket. A
Conductor will check tickets for existence and for the stamp, but will
not collect them.

There seems to be no risk. Others?