The phrase "abortive trip" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a journey or attempt that was unsuccessful or failed to achieve its intended purpose.
Example: "Our plans for a weekend getaway turned into an abortive trip when the car broke down halfway there."
Alternatives: "failed journey" or "unsuccessful excursion".
He had just returned from an abortive trip to Toronto where he faced massive protests.
It took me six weeks to write fifteen hundred words, but, four years after the abortive trip to Saratoga, I was coming back.
In the opening moment, when Willy unexpectedly returns home from an abortive trip to New England, his wife's anxious voice seems to be resonating in his head.
When he showed some of his prints to the Polish embassy's cultural attache on his return to London from the abortive trip and she asked angrily where all the smiling faces were, he replied drily that there weren't any.
Or an abortive trip to Dave and Buster's that ran into mountain traffic on the Garden State Parkway that ran clear into the Bronx.
They left on 5 February; the last sighting of them was a few days later, by Chafe and the Inuit, returning from their abortive trip to Herald Island.
D'Amour makes some interesting points in this two-hour play: especially about the lingering suburban dream of a post-Thoreau, back-to-nature existence that leads the two women to set out on an abortive camping trip, which is matched by the hard-up guys planning a nocturnal rave-up.
Initially, Sher seems a small, shrunken figure trudging wearily homewards after an abortive sales-trip.
This proves easier than I expect, based on an abortive ice-skating trip when simply remaining vertical was a triumph in itself.
To research the subject, Irish playwright Rory Mullarkey took himself off on a trip to Russia but he was mistaken for a spy by suspicious locals and the mission was abortive.
Efforts by Swedes and Prussians proved abortive.
