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A sample itinerary for an open jaw
electronic ticket from Montreal to Amsterdam, and returning from Munich
An
open-jaw ticket is an
airline ticket in which a traveler returns to the
airline from a city other than the one in which they arrived, or in which the final destination is not the same as the original departure city. The trip between these two cities is then made over land, sea or with a separately booked flight. The path-lines between the airports form an open angle, rather than a closed loop, and the angle resembles an open
jawline. This is also sometimes called an
ARNK (Arrival Unknown).
In some cases, this type of arrangement is needed for boat
cruises that do not return to the departure city. In other cases, the traveler wishes to explore between two points and not have to worry about using time to return to the arrival city. For example, a traveller might fly from
London to
Bangkok, travel around
Thailand by
public transport and fly back home to London from
Phuket. Another example would be a traveler flying from
New York City to
San Francisco but then returning to
Washington, D.C. Open-jaw tickets are a flexible and relatively inexpensive way of flying, as such tickets are almost always less expensive than purchasing two round-trip flights between the destinations visited.
Another market commonly traveled, under an open-jaw itinerary, is the one of local one-way tours. Take, for example, a tour of
Florida, where a traveler flying into
Jacksonville,
Orlando, or
Miami rents a car or joins a bus tour at their arrival airport, and returns the car or ends the tour in the town from which they'll be flying home.
An alternative for an open jaw ticket is a
continent pass.
A simple example of this will be a route as follows
SFO-EWR, PHL-SFO