An Open Jaw is an itinerary where you fly into one city and depart from another, or return to a different origin.
Booking an open jaw ticket is one of the smartest strategies for maximizing your time on a multi-city international trip. Instead of flying round-trip from New York to London and forcing yourself to take a train or a budget flight back to London just to fly home, you can fly into London and out of Paris. This saves you the time, cost, and hassle of backtracking. The price is typically calculated as exactly half of the round-trip fare to the first city plus half of the round-trip fare from the second city. For business class travelers, this is incredibly valuable because it allows you to fly into a major hub like Frankfurt and depart from a leisure destination like Rome without paying double the price for two one-way tickets. To book this, always use the "Multi-City" tab on your airline or search engine rather than trying to combine two one-way flights, which often price out at astronomical retail rates. A "double open jaw" is also possible, where both your origin and destination cities change—for example, flying JFK to London, then returning from Paris to Boston.
Yes, international one-way flights in premium cabins are notoriously expensive. An open jaw prices out much closer to a standard round-trip fare.
Select the "Multi-City" search option on Google Flights or your preferred booking platform instead of Round Trip or One Way.
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