An open-jaw ticket flies you into one city and home from another, like New York to Rome and Venice back to New York. You travel overland between them.
Why it's great
- No backtracking: you don't waste a day returning to your arrival city.
- Often priced close to a simple round-trip on the same airline, because it's built from two halves of round-trip fares.
- Lets you use trains or cheap regional flights for the middle.
How to search
- Use the multi-city option on a search site or the airline.
- Compare with two one-ways and with a normal round-trip plus a train back.
- Check the overland leg cost and time.
Classic open-jaw trips: Lisbon in, Madrid out; Tokyo in, Osaka out; Bangkok in, Singapore out; Rome in, Milan out.