Stopover & Open Jaws
Stopover
When you leave for a long and distant travel, it may be pleasant to make a stopover along the way. Many airlines allow stopovers. Tickets with stopover possibilities are a bit more expensive than the cheapest, direct tickets to your destination, yet they are usually a lot cheaper than different separate tickets for the same trip.
As most airlines can't fly non-stop to their most distant destination, they make a stop anyway, usually in their gateway, their home base. You can thus break your journey for a certain period in the gateway, either on the way there or on the return trip or even on both directions.
Possibilities are very extensive. We restrict ourselves here to a few popular combinations. You will find most tariffs in our ticketdatabase.
Final destination: Australia
- Singapore Airlines allows a stop in Singapore
- Thai Airways allows a stop in Bangkok
- Malaysian Airlines allows a stop in Kuala Lumpur
Final destination: New Zealand
- Cathay Pacific allows a stop in Hong Kong
- Singapore Airlines allows a stop in Singapore
- Qantas allows a stop in Bangkok, Singapore or Sydney
Final destination: USA West Coast (e.g. Los Angeles or San Francisco)
- Delta Airlines allows a stop in New York or Atlanta
- KLM-Northwest allows a stop, in both directions, in Detroit or Minneapolis
- Continental Airlines allows a stop in New York
- United Airlines allows a stop, in both directions, in Washington D.C.
Final destination: Vietnam
- China Airlines allows a stop in both directions in Bangkok and/or Taipei
Final destination: India (destinations beyond Bombay and Delhi)
- Air India allows a stop in Bombay and Delhi
Open jaw
Besides stopovers airlines often allow open jaw tickets. With an open jaw you return from another destination than the one you flew to. The trip between your place of arrival and your place of departure is then made over land or with a separate flight. E.g. you fly to Jakarta, travel to Bali by public transport and fly back home from Den Pasar.
The maximum you can get out of one ticket is the combination of a stopover and an open jaw. This is very popular for trips to the United States. The price of a return ticket to San Francisco is generally the same as for a return ticket to Los Angeles and usually a combination of both airports in an open jaw ticket is possible without surcharge. Delta Airlines even allows stopovers. E.g. with Delta Airlines you can fly to San Francisco with a stop in New York, drive to Los Angeles with a rented car and return from LA to Brussels with a stop in Atlanta.
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